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263 example sentences for TRACE, such as:

1. She left a trace of musky perfume behind her.
2. We finally traced him to an address in Chicago.
3. It includes discrete identifiable trace fossils.
4. I thought there might be some weapon or other trace.
5. We could not trace the ultimate source of the rumours.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRACE
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trace
 v.  follow, discover; make a mark or lines on a surface
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)
16  We could not trace the ultimate source of the rumours.
17  Thus, a trace of ambiguity in the data can lower success rate.
18  New work contained the starting-point for a method of investigation, which made it possible to trace the development of heat in muscular movements.
19  We must trace the source of these noxious gases before they asphyxiate us.
20  The first problem is who is responsible for the material: the original author, who may be impossible to trace, or the Internet service provider.
21  In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade was hired to trace the missing figurine of a black bird.
22  David can trace his ancestry as far back as the seventeenth century, when one of them was a court trumpeter somewhere in Germany.
23  She left a trace of musky perfume behind her.
24  Now go back to the diagram at the top of the page and trace through the cycle of the alternation of generations.
25  It includes discrete identifiable trace fossils.
26  Some of its inventions have been ludicrous: like an app that sold coins to use at laundromats; but others are world-beaters: microprocessor and smartphones all trace their lineage to the valley.
27  These shoes, bound pieces of denim with soft soles designed to leave no trace in the Arizona desert, have been lost or abandoned by illegal immigrants traversing Mr Chiltern's 50,000-acre cattle ranch.
28  “Under the public Wi-Fi network situations, attackers can very easily eavesdrop and make falsifications on encrypted communications,” Hayashi added. “Victims cannot detect any trace of the attacks.”
29  Rescuers said they had searched the entire avalanche area and found no trace of the missing climbers. Commander of the local mountain gendarmes said it was possible the bodies were buried deep under the ice and snow.
30  We finally traced him to an address in Chicago.