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Example sentences for "tracing"

Lexicographically close words:
tracheotomy; trachoma; trachyte; trachytes; trachytic; tracings; track; trackage; tracked; tracker
  1. But, in thus tracing back the natural operations which have succeeded each other, and mark to us the course of time past, we come to a period in which we cannot see any farther.

  2. The second group, it will be seen, are tracing a path which leads to three open coffins in which lie the bodies of three princes in different stages of decay, while a monk on crutches--intended for S.

  3. Mr. Locke very justly and finely observes of wit, that it is chiefly conversant in tracing resemblances; he remarks, at the same time, that the business of judgment is rather in finding differences.

  4. Alban had not yet discovered Jasper, nor even succeeded in tracing Mrs. Crane!

  5. Subsequently I had the wished-for opportunity of tracing the development of a Hyperia which is not uncommon upon Ctenophora, especially Beroe gilva, Eschsch.

  6. At that distance you were still unable to see the pilgrims themselves, and you beheld simply those well-disciplined travelling lights tracing geometrical lines amidst the darkness.

  7. Sir Roland agreed: "Wonderfully organised, when one goes closely into its ramifications--tracing and following them to their Headquarters in a certain underground office at the Wilhelmstrasse!

  8. And thus they stood, the girl clinging to the young man's broad shoulders as he held her, the tears from her own still smarting eyes tracing white channels in the dust that masked her quivering face.

  9. Closer examination of the verses brings out the thought that the Apostle is tracing the growth and formation of the man's spiritual character.

  10. In tracing the historical events of these reigns, we have had occasion to show the increasing strength of the Royal navy of England.

  11. Rewards were offered for their discovery, and menaces of punishment issued for remissness in tracing them out.

  12. Only think, what lives of misery we should lead were we ever tracing our own fears, and connecting them with all the changes that go on around us!

  13. Our knowledge does not enable us to explain the change from female to male tracing of lineage.

  14. It was rather a peculiar one, given to me by my husband; we had felt at the time that it might be the means of tracing us, but we were penniless and starving, and what else could we do?

  15. The author starts by tracing architecture to its root in the human mind: this physical thing is the manifestation of a psychological state.

  16. She was tracing small circles on the alabaster.

  17. She grinned at him, then proceeded, tracing the wide marble steps.

  18. But still Androv kept the stick in, and during the next five seconds, as Daedalus continued tracing the archer's curve, they almost began to fly upside down.

  19. Of course, the Ford girl might communicate with her companion by telephone, in which event the tracing would be difficult, if not impossible.

  20. And yet, as usual, the message had apparently been delivered in such a way as to make tracing it impossible.

  21. Were these people to suspect that I have placed the matter in the hands of a detective, they would be instantly on their guard, and all means of tracing them might be lost.

  22. The other hope of tracing the woman lay in Grace.

  23. I am indebted for a more particular account of the volume, with a tracing of the inscription, to the Rev.

  24. As to the practical truth of the law of conservation of energy there can be no doubt; nor as to the value of the results obtained from tracing its validity in obscure actions.

  25. The process of tracing their sequence was all torture, but there was no possibility, no notion, of shirking any detail of the pain.

  26. She yawned at the thought, but remained well awake, tracing idly in her mind, as various slight sounds rose from the lower floor, the different things Soulsby was probably doing.

  27. Their political experience, brief as it is, enables them to see at once that a habitable house is not built by merely tracing a plan of it on paper according the theorems of school geometry.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tracing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carbon; cartoon; charcoal; companion; copy; crayon; delineation; design; diagram; doodle; double; draft; draught; draughtsman; draughty; drawing; duplicate; duplication; effigy; fellow; graph; icon; idol; image; likeness; map; match; mate; miniature; mirroring; model; pastel; photograph; picture; portrait; pursuit; recording; reflection; reproduction; resemblance; rubbing; semblance; shadow; silhouette; similitude; simulacrum; sketch; study; tenor; trace; tracing; transcript; transcription; transfer; twin; vignette