TRACE in a Sentence

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263 example sentences for TRACE, such as:
1. We must trace the source of these noxious.
2. I cannot trace the letter to which you refer.
3. We are trying to trace the source of infection.
4. We must trace the source of these noxious gases.
5. No trace of wings in the air, but I have been over.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of TRACE
trace
 n.  a visible mark (as a footprint) left by the passage of person or animal or vehicle
 n.  a just detectable amount
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There was no sign or trace of his passenger, and I fear it will be some time before he gets his fare.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  There was, however, no trace of exultation or satisfaction upon his face.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4  The Olivers couldn't trace their descent for more than two or three hundred years.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
5  Nowhere was there any trace of Henry Jekyll, dead or alive.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
6  Cheerless and comfortless, boastfully and doggedly rich, there the room stared at its present occupants, unsoftened and unrelieved by the least trace of any womanly occupation.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
7  It matters little what figures of wonderful no-meaning she began to trace upon her wrappers.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
8  But it were impious to trace any farther the picture of the blasphemer and parricide's deathbed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  One is from Hexamshire; he is wont to trace the Tynedale and Teviotdale thieves, as a bloodhound follows the slot of a hurt deer.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  perhaps also in mockery, because there had been no trace of dialect before.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  Both were kissed very tenderly, but Tom she wanted to keep by her, to try to trace the features of the baby she had loved, and talked to, of his infant preference of herself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
12  But the old gentleman could recall no one countenance of which Oliver's features bore a trace.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  He could trace its shadow in the gloom, supply the smallest item of the outline, and note how stiff and solemn it seemed to stalk along.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
14  But the mind within was beginning to use it as a mere waste tablet whereon to trace its idiosyncrasies as they developed themselves.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 6 The Two Stand Face to Face
15  I thought there might be some weapon or other trace.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
Example Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  Since his last book five years ago, he seems to have sunk without trace.
2  No trace of wings in the air, but I have been over.
3  Using the right hand to touch the string gently through the fingers,the trace of lubrication,with my flying fantasy.
4  All trace of his working - class background was deliberately obscured.
5  His family can trace its history back to the Qing Dynasty.
6  He could trace his ancestors back seven hundred years.
7  I have been unable to trace the letter you mentioned.
8  The police are trying to trace the mother of a newborn baby found abandoned outside a hospital.
9  The police have been unable to trace the owner of the vehicle.
10  I cannot trace the letter to which you refer.
11  The resource person may correct a serious error and repeat the phrase again but with no trace of disapproval or reproach.
12  We must trace the source of these noxious gases.
13  We must trace the source of these noxious.
14  No one has yet been able to trace the source of the rumour.
15  We are trying to trace the source of infection.