Note the process of thrusting out and retracting the fleshy foot which extends between the two valves of the shell.
Some of them are of the general shape and character of Amoeba, sending out and retracting blunt, finger-like pseudopodia, the body-mass itself having no fixed form or outline but constantly changing.
I proposed that we should release each other, because reflection had convinced me that I should best consult his welfare and mine by retracting a rash promise, and leaving him free to make his choice elsewhere.
Reflection has convinced her that she will best consult her welfare and mine by retracting a rash promise, and leaving me free to make some happier choice elsewhere.
Beautiful whip-snakes were gleaming in the sun; they hold on by a few coils of the tall round a twig, the greater part of their body stretched out horizontally, occasionally retracting and darting an unerring aim at some insect.
Sokrates goes still farther towards retracting it 317 There are names better and worse--more like, or less like to the things named: Natural Names are the best, but they cannot always be had.
Accordingly, in replying to Kratylus, Sokrates goes yet farther in retracting his own previous reasoning at the beginning of the dialogue--though still without openly professing to do so.
The knife is swept rapidly round the bone, so as to expose it completely at the upper part, the assistant at the same time retracting the flaps fully.
This will generally be found to depend upon an imperfect division of the muscle, or of the surrounding cellular tissue, by which the muscle is prevented from retracting sufficiently within its sheath.
He retains this hold, at the same time retracting the flap, during the rest of the operation.
Defn: The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
The act ofretracting or shortening; as, the retraction of a severed muscle; the retraction of a sinew.
Joining on those tiny muscles for the retracting mechanism was the tricky part though.
Vorongil flexed his clawed hands nervously, stretching and retracting them.
Neither retracting nor fulfilling her engagement could now retrieve what was past, and in the bitterness of regret for the error she had committed she thought happiness unattainable for the remainder of her life.
Mr Marriot must accept my thanks for his civility, and excuse me for retracting my consent.
The act of retracting what has been said; recantation.
I assure you I'll take more pleasure in retracting the statements than I did in making them.
You might secure a card from him retracting his statements.
Here Skene, very angry, applied several epithets to Paradise, and became so excited that Mellish had to soothe him by partially retracting his forebodings, and asking how Cashel had been of late.
Yet she made the gallant himself sensible, that this apparent intimacy was assumed merely to save appearances, and in no way designed asretracting from the severity with which she had rejected his suit.
I took home some specimens, and placing them in perfectly fresh water they continued for many hours expanding and retracting their cirri with perfect regularity and vigour.
But the animal is endowed with the capacity of quite suddenly retracting its forepart like the bellows of a concertina, and when so compressed to heave it backward or in any direction, so that an immediate change of route is possible.
Or, if you prove every charge unfounded, they never think of retracting their error, or making you amends.
Though the present parliament had urged the attorney-general to bring these delinquents to trial, they had never, by an address to the king, given him a colour for retracting his promise of mercy.
Through their intervention it was agreed that without expressly retracting their pastorals the bishops should consent to sign the formulary drawn up by the Pope, and induce the clergy to do likewise.
He published a Bull retracting all the attacks which he had made against the Papacy in his capacity as secretary to the /Concilabulum/ at Basle.
Luther resented bitterly such a theory as an attack upon his authority, especially as Zwingli refused to allow himself to be brow- beaten into retracting his doctrine.
The French Government have had the last word, and exhibited some spleen, which is not very unnatural considering the part they have had to play, eating humble pie and retracting almost everything they said.
For she had realised, with a desperate clearness of vision, that if Roger were incurably injured, she could not add to his burden by retracting her promise to be his wife.
When she had written her letter to Roger, retracting the promise she had given him, she would be free--free to belong wholly to the man she loved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retracting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
