Sentence examples for retrace one's steps from inspiring English sources

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At moments like these it is best to take a deep breath, compose oneself and calmly retrace one's steps over the past few hours.

About a year ago, I read in DeGregorio's Complete Book of U. S. Presidents that Grant, "believed it bad luck to retrace one's steps.

Virgil wrote in The Aeneid, "it is easy to go down into Hell; night and day the fates of dark death stand wide; but to climb back up again, to retrace one's steps to the open air, there lies the problem, the difficult task".

Children learn to use operations that are flexible and fully reversible in thought; the ability to plan a series of moves in a game of checkers and then mentally retrace one's steps to the beginning of that sequence is one such example of an operation.

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"And they're not going to retrace everybody's steps.

They felt a pull to retrace Stanley's steps.

Investigators are trying to retrace Monsalve's steps before her disappearance.

One October morning, I decide to retrace the book's steps.

"You are not one – you are two men," Karamakate tells Evan as he retraces Théo's steps, apparently perceiving his separate companions to be two incarnations of the same soul.

Perhaps it would help to retrace the club's steps.

(In an affectionate study of Fontane, the historian Gordon A. Craig retraced the author's steps).

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