Sentence examples for retrace as from inspiring English sources

There are some puzzles — cheetahs have spots, though they prefer open hunting grounds — but that's to be expected, since the footsteps of evolution can be as hard to retrace as those of a speckly leopard in the forest.

Investigations are currently going on to retrace as many potentially infected animals as possible, says pathologist Kurt Reed of the Marshfield Clinic in Marshfield, Wisconsin, where three patients are being treated: "We're still hoping this is a one-shot deal for the history books".

Investigators, meanwhile, are trying to retrace as much of Mateen's final weeks and months as possible in an effort to understand his motivation.

The topographic features were verified for consistency between trace and retrace images, as well as for their reproducibility in subsequent scan frames.

But that journey retraced, as I have been doing for a BBC radio documentary, reveals a very different Metroland.

The marks are traced and retraced as she moves in circular patterns, until at the end (you can see this better from an upper floor) there is the startlingly beautiful imprint of a pressed flower, with curvy outer swirls and six perfect inner spokes.

They purposefully avoided the interstate highways not built until the 1950s, retracing as best they could the original route of the two lane roads Jack & Neal drove.

The melancholy William Cowper wrote "The Task", two of whose books, "The Winter Morning Walk" and "The Winter Walk at Noon", "retrace / (As in a map the voyager his course) / The windings of my way through many years".

The final pages of the score, in which Shostakovich tries to retrace, insofar as he is able, Beethoven's great march from C minor to C major in the Fifth, were taken at a daringly slow tempo, yet every detail glowed with life, from scattered notes on the flute to the last, rumbling pizzicatos in the basses.

Here, we are interested in retracing evolutionary history as much as possible, attending to both the vertical and horizontal axes of inheritance.

Their expeditions retrace important classic localities, as well as prospect new fossil localities.