Sentence examples for retract at from inspiring English sources

Try as he might, the doleful former investment banker couldn't explain why the BBC had failed to retract at least some of Gilligan's claims.

In 2006, much to Ukip's fury, Cameron famously called them a party of "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists" (weirdly, over the weekend, the Downing Street press office seemed to retract at least the third of these suggestions, only to un-retract it).

Its acoustical designer, Russell Johnson, equipped the wood-lined auditorium with huge resonance chambers, curtains that retract at the touch of a button and a 42-ton acoustic and lighting panel that looks like something out of a science fiction fantasy as it rises and falls on wire cables over the stage.

Beyond the rotor boundary lies the subexcitable regime in which discontinuous waves start to retract at their open ends and any discontinuous wave is transient and will eventually disappear (see Videos 2 and 3).

In contrast, within healthy brain tissue, microglial somata remain in place, but during increased synaptic activity their processes extend and retract at an increased rate [18].

The clots were allowed to retract at 37 °C for 1 h and photographed.

The case against him rested on this confession, which he retracted at the trial.

A poster featuring the latter as a captive pet in Nigel Farage's pocket was shared with the media and then retracted at the last minute.

A retractable awning has one side anchored to an exterior wall and can be extended and retracted at will, electronically or manually.

The Port Authority police said the cause of death might have been asphyxiation from lack of oxygen, or injuries from the plane's wheels when they were retracted at takeoff.

Under his control, my face was inches from waving sea anemones, and for the first time I saw the coral flicker as the tiny creatures that build it retracted at our presence.