Sentence examples for retracing steps from inspiring English sources

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I found myself drawn toward the jazz offerings, retracing steps that I took in college, when friends observed that if I liked Xenakis and Ligeti I might like Braxton and Cecil Taylor.

As with the opening blackout, the ending was protracted: Lifson, shuffling forward on forced arch, her abdomen contracting and releasing, her fists swivelling lazily near her face, travelled the perimeter of the white floor, changing direction, retracing steps, before finally joining the others in the room offstage.

Simple motor tics may manifest as eye blinking, nose wrinkling, jaw thrusting, shoulder shrugging or neck jerking, or the tics may involve more complex movements like jumping, touching, twirling when walking, retracing steps, imitating someone else's movements or making sudden obscene gestures.

The repetition, in each stanza, of the previous stanza's second and fourth lines as first and third, gives the effect of retracing steps in an uncertain, slightly staggering gait – the way you might walk if you were feeling dizzy, or if you were navigating between obstacles.

If at some point the next step to a better future requires retracing steps, selection ratchets that as well.

says Sam. "We were definitely conscious of bringing something new, instead of retracing steps of videos that we love or even our own steps within the video".

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We had drinks, retraced steps.

Even after nine weeks at this site, it is difficult to retrace steps and find favored spots.

There's also much repetition of boss fights and retraced steps once new abilities open fresh paths and strategies.

Misplacing things and losing the ability to retrace steps.

But he can retrace steps and with effort can figure out where he has placed them.

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