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
  • This involves putting things in unusual places or losing things without being able to retrace steps to find them again.
    Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 19 July 2024

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