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Example sentences for "trace the"

  • When we trace the parts of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several parts, the whole presents a machine of a peculiar construction by which it is adapted to a certain end.

  • Though much work has been done on the subject in recent years, it is not easy to trace the origin of the medical school at Salerno.

  • It is interesting to trace the succession of great contributors to surgery during these two centuries.

  • The muffled figure stood in the shadow of an angle in the attitude of a listener.

  • She instinctively felt that her father could not understand her, and she had never been able to go to him for sympathy.

  • His words had been so earnest and assured that they seemed reality.

  • Cavendish sighed, and turning to Thaddeus, directed to him the answer which his friend's question demanded.

  • Therese, your most inveterate hate cannot more strongly tell me than I can tell myself that to you I have been a villain.

  • In a few minutes the girl returned with the following lines on a slip of paper: "To Pembroke Somerset, Esq.

  • The clouded face Of Nature smiles; through all her things Of time and space and sense I trace The moving of the Spirit's wings, And hear the song of hope she sings.

  • The Beauty which old Greece or Rome Sung, painted, wrought, lies close at home; We need but eye and ear In all our daily walks to trace The outlines of incarnate grace, The hymns of gods to hear!

  • Our faith and sight Thy presence maketh one As through transfigured clouds of white We trace the noon-day sun.

  • Science has to start somewhere, and it starts with the universe as it finds it and seeks to trace secondary or proximate causes; the evolutionist seeks to trace the footsteps of creative energy in the world of animal life.

  • Slowly man emerges out of the abyss of geologic time into the dawn of history, and science gropes about like a man feeling his way in the dark or, at most, by the aid now and then of a dim flash of light, to trace the path he has come.

  • To trace the series to one being, finite, yet uncaused, is totally inadmissible; and not less so is the conception of finite beings in an infinite and eternal series.

  • I formerly endeavoured to trace the manner in which this derangement arises, and have now only to allude to its influence on the harmony of the moral feelings.

  • There cannot, indeed, be an inquiry of more intense and solemn interest, than to trace the chain of sequences which has been established in the mind of man as a moral being.

  • These taken together imply a complicated moral calculation, of which it is impossible for another man to trace the result.

  • When we endeavour to trace the manner, in which mankind have departed so widely from this high pattern, we arrive at moral phenomena of which we can offer no explanation.

  • But all this happened in the middle of the efforts which were being made to trace the purchase of the bludgeon, and when men hoped two or five or twenty-five years of threatened incarceration might be all the same to Mr. Emilius.

  • But might it not be possible to trace the weapon?

  • This was said while the attempt was still being made to trace the purchase of the bludgeon in Paris.

  • The greater breadth of the dividing ridge has thus been explored, but it will remain to trace the limits of the valley of the Rimouski, which will form a deep indenture in the boundary line.

  • If the reader would understand the agencies to be employed in the soon-coming contest, he has but to trace the record of the means which Rome employed for the same object in ages past.

  • Trace the steps in the rise of organized labor before 1860.

  • Trace the growth of American independence from opinion to the sphere of action.

  • Trace the decline of slavery in the North and explain it.

  • Trace the voyage of the fleet around the world and mention the significant imperial and commercial points touched.

  • O then renounce that impious self-esteem That aims to trace the secrets of the skies; For thou art but of dust, be humble and be wise.

  • Nor have we always been able to trace the poem to its source.

  • In the fact that the Academy became for a time philosophical rather than critical, and dealt with theories rather than with pure literature, we trace the finger of the more radical thinkers who made themselves so strongly felt in the salons.

  • It is not my intention to trace the rise of feminism.

  • It becomes interesting and necessary at this point to trace the evolution of the home, because this is to trace the evolution of our housewife.

  • There can hardly be a doubt that the Zaiturn of Marco is the modern Canton; yet from the causes already mentioned in several notes, it is next to an impossibility to trace the route or itinerary from Quinsai to this place.

  • Trace the growth in the population of your state since 1880.

  • If so, attempt to trace the relation of this immigration to low wages in your community.

  • Trace the beginnings of railroad transportation in your section, and describe the effect of improved methods of transportation upon the ability of different communities in your section to coƶperate with one another.

  • Trace the influence of Magna Charta upon our ideal of justice.

  • Trace the influence of the geography of your section upon the economic life of your community.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trace the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after school; considerable variation; distant object; each party; faithful friends; feathers white; for the express purpose; great friend; individual experience; kind treatment; lose time; mean that; orderly arrangement; papa says; prepositional phrase; purple flowers; specimens were; spiritual house; trace behind; trace the; traced back; true wisdom; white race; would look