Sentence examples for let me backtrack from inspiring English sources

Let me backtrack.

Let me backtrack for a moment.

("About my job," she begins one chapter. "But, first, let me backtrack to high school").

That sounds much harsher than I mean, so let me backtrack: no doctor is saying that letting small children watch a little TV while their parents take a shower or make a phone call or check e-mail is a terrible thing.

Let me backtrack, out of the front door, down the stone steps, back into York's Micklegate, the kind of street that sent the architectural expert Nikolaus Pevsner into ecstasies when he first surveyed it around 50 years ago: so many gems and all knee-deep in gossipy history.

Let me backtrack for a moment and tell you how I ended up in this situation.

"Let me look".

"Uh, let me think.

Let me rephrase it.

Let me start over.

"Let me alone".