Sentence examples for retract on from inspiring English sources

"The claws retract on command".

The shoes, which have tungsten studs that retract on pavement, were "rock solid" on snow and ice.

Italy, which initially said it would be willing to send troops to spearhead an international force in Libya, appeared to retract on February 16th.

But while Mr Sikorski may be right that Vladimir Putin poses a grave threat both to Ukraine and to Russia's other European neighbours, the tall tale he was forced to retract on Tuesday has made it harder for Poland to make that case.

The ceiling and roof retract on rails, letting you bask under the Lombardy sun or read by moonlight.

With the help of a super clever compressed air system, Furze's claws are able to extend and retract on command.

The windows opened, and the roof retracted on one side, revealing an attic.

Using the tilting plate method, the contact angles were measured on the pressed (180 bars for 15 min) plates of samples inclined toward the optical axis and in that position liquid gathered on one side of the droplet and retracted on the other one.

At his last hearing, on July 4, Dr. Hwang admitted fabricating some data that went into a landmark paper, since retracted, on stem-cell studies.

The violence followed a Newsweek story — which has since been retracted — on new allegations that American interrogators at Guantánamo Bay had desecrated the Koran.

After singling out Newsweek for its article, now retracted, on reports that interrogators at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a Koran down the toilet, Mr. McClellan broadened his critique of the magazine's journalistic practices to apply to those at the rest of the mainstream news media.