How to Use retrace in a Sentence

retrace

verb

• The girl went back out to retrace her steps, but hasn't been seen since.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2021
• People from all over the world made the bus a focal point and tried to retrace his steps.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• For investors, the chances are good that the stock will retrace its losses, and then some.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 14 July 2022
• The next day, the search task force brought bloodhounds to the area to retrace the steps Johnston made in reaching Newark.
  — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Her mother told her to retrace her steps in hopes of finding the card.
  — Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Places that Dante would have had to visit and where Nick [Tosches] had to go in order to retrace these things.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• The next day, Monthanus tried to retrace her father’s steps.
  — New York Times, 17 Aug. 2021
• The two retrace his steps to try and unravel the circumstances of his death.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2024
• But there’s only so many times the series can retrace its steps.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2023
• Stocks are looking to retrace some of last week's losses.
  — Matt Grossman, WSJ, 3 Oct. 2022
• To return, retrace your steps back along the paved path, seeing the sights from a new perspective.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
• Rescuers have been trying to retrace his the A Room with a View star's steps via cellphone pings which showed him in the area on Monday.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 19 Jan. 2023
• The star returned to Cincinnati for the show to retrace her German roots, and even took a walk down Ludlow Avenue.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 4 Oct. 2022
• Most of them are young, and each has been taught by its mother to follow this route to the winter range, then retrace the 100-mile course every spring.
  — Randy Newberg, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2020
• Tourists came to see the Andes and to retrace Darwin’s route through the Galápagos Islands.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• Surely the best way to grasp what the women were doing was to retrace their steadily mounting steps.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 June 2022
• The researchers faced many challenges when trying to retrace the steps of the ancient stars and their violent death throes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 10 Oct. 2022
• Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck decides to do the same, and retrace Thoreau's path along the Cape.
  — The Editors, Town & Country, 8 Mar. 2022
• In the seasons since a wine night at a barn went horribly wrong, the cast has been retracing the same steps with very little forward progress.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2024
• Folau was anxious to retrace his steps to search for his sister’s car, but the roads were impassable.
  — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• To descend the grade of State Highway 89 into the rubble of Greenville is to retrace the steps of a community’s trauma.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2022
• Her mother had reportedly told her to retrace her steps in hopes of finding the card.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 12 Nov. 2021
• The hiker attempted to travel down an avalanche chute on the mountain to try to get to a road, instead of retracing their steps.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 Nov. 2023
• Duong escaped again with the cabbie, retracing his steps south to O.C. when the other convicts stepped out to run an errand.
  — Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• So the writer and his family retraced Phyllis’ steps across London and drove the back roads of Germany and Austria.
  — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2023
• Once Mercury retraces those steps, Campos says we will be brought back to this pivotal moment.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 12 May 2023
• But after retracing the trail and slipping several times on the narrow, cliff-side paths, his fears grew.
  — Daniel Wu, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
• Police retraced his steps and accused the suspect of dumping Dick’s merchandise near dumpsters in the rear of the restaurant.
  — cleveland, 2 Sep. 2023
• While on top, review the preserve map to scope out your return route or simply retrace your steps for a second look at the cliff-side raven drama.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2021
• Benchmark crude contracts fell more than 2% before retracing some of those losses.
  — Mark Burton, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024