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
From Catherington, one may either retrace one’s steps to the Portsmouth Road above Horndean, or else continue on the by-lanes that bring the pedestrian to the highway below that wayside hamlet.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
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 Bulfinch, Thomas
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 Clouston, William Alexander
"The gates of Dis stand open night and day; small trouble it is to descend thereto, but to retrace one's steps, and regain the upper air, there lies the toil."
From National Epics by Rabb, Kate Milner
