retrace one's steps
Example Sentences
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One is led on and on with a zany Cartesian logic, but one can never retrace one's steps and relate the story coherently.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best way, as I have heard, to get out of a labyrinth, is to retrace one's steps.
From The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
To retrace one's steps is to lose not only time but confidence.
From How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success by Major A.R. Calhoon
The descent to Avernus is easy; the gate of Pluto stands open night and day; but to retrace one's steps and return to the upper air, that is the toil, that the difficulty.
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Now it was no light matter to have to retrace one's steps back to the butter-shop, as the way was long and the day was very hot.
From The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies by William Alexander Clouston
