Retract in a sentence as a verb

The first friend should offer the toy to your kid but then retract the offer and keep the toy to himself.

Not a single one shared with the person who offered the toy then retracted the offer.

Whether you wait 1 more second before you retract the iron, or you don't wait, again depends on the technique.

He wrote these crazy awesome ebooks on Ruby, among other things, put it all out on the Internet, then when it got popular he tried to retract and delete it all and disappear.

If you think pg's article is better than pb's, why hide your opinion, which I happen to share, behind this pudic relativist curtain?It's like doing a solid dissertation on why Python is more x and x and x than, say, Java, and then, in the conclusion, retract every statement behind a shy "matter of taste".

Sometimes 10x market paySomehow I doubt you're paying $1 million a year, which would be 10x market pay for a good engineer...That said, if you're paying even high-ish market rates and your people are really partners with significant percentage interests in the company, then I do retract a lot of what I said, and apologize if it was too harsh - I have had some bad experiences in startup-land with CEOs that demanded miracles from underpaid near-zero-equity employees, and I'm definitely biased by that.

Retract definitions

verb

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

See also: abjure recant forswear resile

verb

pull away from a source of disgust or fear

verb

use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)

verb

pull inward or towards a center; "The pilot drew in the landing gear"; "The cat retracted his claws"