He was so little satisfied with his own performance, that in a second treatise, called Dialogues on the Trinity, he retracts the former as ill written, though without having changed any of his opinions.
Contraction of this muscle retracts the upper mandible by moving the palatine posteriorly, and simultaneously adducts the lower mandible.
With origin and insertion on highly movable bones, this muscle, when it contracts, retracts the upper mandible and adducts the lower mandible.
The cat sets up her back; the dog retracts his upper lip; the horse throws back his ears.
Therefore it is that the angry lion roars while he lashes his sides, and the dog growls while he retracts his lip.
The yolk sac retracts mainly between the time when the egg shell is first punctured and the time when the turtle actually emerges from the shell.
When hatching is completed, the yolk sac usually protrudes no more than two millimeters, but in some individuals it is large andretracts slowly over a period of several days.
In this event the polypretracts its tentacles until they become mere prominences on its disk, and shrinks greatly in size.
This lid closes automatically outside the zooecium or in a special chamber on the external surface (the "peristome") when the polypide retracts and is pushed open by the tentacles as they expand.
And now, when the goal is won, and the prize is ours, your majesty retracts her imperial word!
Have you yet to learn that the empress never retracts her words?
At the end of each of the great world periods called kalpas the Lord retracts the whole world, i.
In some he may enjoy the objects, in others he may undergo dire penance, and, finally, he may again retract them all, just as the sun retracts the multitude of his rays.
She retracts what she said against me in her last.
When an artery is divided, its extremity retracts within the sheath, it also contracts, and coagulation occurs; thus the orifice is obstructed, and a temporary barrier formed to further hemorrhage.
The assistant seizes the extremity of the inner flap as soon as formed, and retracts it, but only to a slight extent; it is simply held out of the way.
The skin retracts considerably, leaving the cut surface free; the wound granulates, contracts, and cicatrises.
The eye consequently shrinks, and retracts within the palpebræ.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retracts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
