Sentence examples for retract to from inspiring English sources

My musical boundaries are supposed to retract to the space between soft rock and smooth jazz.

It is also prepared to retract to strong positions on this side of the Delaware.

Withdraw, in contrast, means "to retract, to take back or away" or "to remove"; in another sense, it means "leave the room".

This fibre, which can stretch more than five hundred per cent and then retract to its original size, has transformed the wardrobes of swimmers, superheroes, and Bon Jovi.

How did a country that once counted Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Goa, and Macao as outlying provinces forfeit its empire and retract to the cramped edge of the Iberian Peninsula?

The result was a two-story, five-bedroom house with tall windows that, on the ground floor, retract to allow the Pacific breezes from the Gulf of Papagayo to cool the rooms.

If you need extra clearance, the roof retracts to form a 32-inch-square opening.

A mirror above an antique Herter console retracts to reveal a flat-screen TV.

A sliding cover tops the SSR's bed and the cab's top retracts to make a convertible.

These decrees were later retracted to avert public and international criticism but have effectively had the same impact.

The inability to self-retract to the original starting position is evident.