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"Retract" in a Sentence (23 examples)
I would like to retract my previous statement.
I won't retract that statement.
Tom didn't retract his statement.
At each approach to the Sun, the solar arrays retract behind the heat shield’s shadow, leaving only a small segment exposed to the Sun’s intense rays.
Tom should retract his statement.
I am that Ravenswood to whom you granted the solemn engagement which you now desire to retract and cancel.
The author of the article was forced to retract her previous article after the information was debunked.
Tom was given the opportunity to retract his statement, but he chose not to.
If anything, I would argue, Mr. Speaker, that at times you have gone too far in urging a member to retract a statement. You have also gone too far in trying to give somebody an opening to distance themselves from having broken the rules.
I have decided to retract my previous statement.
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An airplane retracts its wheels for flight.
The collector shoes are automatically retracted when the electric handle is moved from "service off" to "lock off".
A cat can retract its claws.
The bus was stuck at the stop as its wheelchair ramp wouldn’t retract after use.
Muscles retract after amputation.
[T]hey began to finde fault with Poeſie, […] ſaying, that metaphors æmigmaticall, and covert words, yea and the ambiguities which Poetry uſeth, were but ſhifts, retracts, and evaſions to hide and cover all, whenſoever the events fell not out accordingly.
Theſe Græcians alſo that made the retract, aduiſed Darius [III] to retire his Armie into the plaine of Meſopotamia, to the end that Alexander being entred into thoſe large fields and great Champions, he might haue inuironed the Macedonians on all ſides with his multitude; […]
Fill'd with the Satisfaction of their own diſcerning Faculties, they [natural history writers] paſs Judgment at firſt ſight; write on, and are above being ever brought to retract it.
I retract all the accusations I made about the senator and sincerely hope he won’t sue me.
And yet this Pope himſelf, not many years after, retracted this Bull; […]
She will, and ſhe will not; ſhe grants, denies, / Conſents, retracts, advances, and then flies, / Approving and rejecting in a Breath, / Now proff'ring Mercy, now preſenting Death!
He has also suggested in a newspaper interview that China could be appeased if it were given partial control of Taiwan. An official in Taipei demanded that he retract his suggestion.
"Challenger was the man who came with some cock-and-bull story from South America." / "What story?" / "Oh, it was rank nonsense about some queer animals he had discovered. I believe he has retracted since. Anyhow, he has suppressed it all. He gave an interview to Reuter's, and there was such a howl that he saw it wouldn't do.["]
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