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Example sentences for "tracks"

Lexicographically close words:
tracker; trackers; tracking; trackless; trackmen; trackway; tract; tractable; tractate; tractates
  1. Here the trail of the deer they were following was lost amid the tracks of others which had gone into the deep rugged gullies to escape the stinging wind.

  2. Them tracks was made by a redskin an' they came straight to the camp along the trail we made yesterday.

  3. With the first streak of dawn he called John to prepare breakfast, then hurried back to the valley where their cart had been left, taking care to observe that there were no tracks of any human creature along the way.

  4. At least if they are wolves there should be tracks about the mouth of the cave.

  5. He secured a light, however, by flashing powder in his gun, and thus found the tracks of old Jerry and the cart.

  6. I suppose we ought to follow those tracks if only for safety's sake, and find out who made them, but I do hate to lose the time when we ought to be getting a cabin built.

  7. He reasoned that the discovery of the tracks was fortunate, rather than otherwise, for it proved that their mysterious enemy was still hovering on their trail and gave them an opportunity of finding out who the wretch might be.

  8. We did find a trail but it was mingled with the tracks of the horse and cart, and the snow being gone, we could not follow it.

  9. There was some snow--not enough to make walking difficult, but really an advantage to the young hunters, for it showed them the numerous tracks of the game they sought.

  10. He afterwards told how he came upon the tracks of Broadus, and on reaching the spot where Broadus had received his death wound, he was suddenly attacked by a huge she-bear that was followed by two small cubs.

  11. In the Piru country a great many cattle were found with their throats neatly cut, and old Whitehead's tracks were invariably found near the carcasses.

  12. Of course the bear was not where his tracks seemed to indicate him to be, and the meeting was sudden and unexpected.

  13. There were cougar and lynx tracks all over the mountains, but I seldom saw the animals and then only got fleeting glimpses of them as they fled out of my way.

  14. Boston was in the lead, and as he walked along he looked closely for the tracks of the stranger's boots, as he had said he was going to Hood River.

  15. Taylor thought somebody had happened along and cut a ham out of the dead hog, but there were no man tracks anywhere; nothing but hog and bear tracks.

  16. They do not stop short in their tracks and go to sleep where any chance comer may walk over them, but make a half circle loop or letter U in the trail and lie where they can watch the route by which they came.

  17. Old Pinto was no myth, and he didn't make tracks with a whittled pine foot.

  18. A troop horse had died about a quarter of a mile below the cavalry camp, on the edge of the National Park, and the men had seen bear tracks around the carcass.

  19. On a hunting trip in Kern county, Mr. Searles had a remarkable run of luck and piled three bears in a heap without moving out of his tracks or getting the least sign of fight.

  20. Slowly following his tracks left in the soft soil and broken down herbage, they found him about noon, terribly mangled and unconscious, but alive.

  21. As I was saying, Taylor recognized the tracks and was sure he had got old Whitehead, but he was sort of puzzled when he noticed a hog's track in the same trail and saw that those were sometimes wiped out by the bear's tracks.

  22. He'll stand in his tracks and wait for a bear, and when the brute gets near him he'll raise his rifle as steadily as though he were at a turkey shoot and put the bullet in the exact spot every time.

  23. His rifle was unloaded and the tracks showed where he had fled, pursued by the angry animal, been overtaken, and killed.

  24. In the morning he started out to take a look at his dead bear, and found his tracks leading from the meadow right up the trail.

  25. She accordingly made loops of slender but strong vines near the roots of the trees, and across their narrow tracks in the woods.

  26. The Fox replied: "I do not come in because I see by the tracks that many have entered, but none have come out.

  27. Here and there on the road we could see the bear's paws with all the toes printed on the snow, while in others we could see the tracks of a peasant's bast shoes.

  28. The hunter walked all day with his gun and with his dog, over the tracks of the fox, to discover how he found his way into the yard.

  29. In the morning the hunters try to follow the hare tracks, and they get mixed up on the double tracks and long leaps, and marvel at the hare's cunning.

  30. Henriette stopped short in her tracks and all the blood in her body seemed to flow back upon her heart at a frightful detonation, so close that she could feel the wind upon her cheek.

  31. The car crawled cautiously on, following a path that, in the searching glare of headlights, showed as two parallel tracks of white set apart by a strip of livid green and walled in by a dense tangle of scrub-oak and pine and second growth.

  32. He found himself on the station platform, stupidly watching the rear lights dwindle down the tracks and wondering whether or not hallucinations were a phase of his malady.

  33. If he does, he tells them where to get to out of that and how quick he wants it done, in language that makes the boldest efforts of the boys from across the tracks seem puny in comparison.

  34. The boys from across the tracks show off all the bad words they can think of.

  35. The boys from across the tracks get to go at night.

  36. And while he wondered a fit of coughing drove the dust from his mouth like smoke; and even as he coughed the thickening swirl obliterated his tracks as swiftly as heavy snow.

  37. Now, round we go, and back on our tracks full split.

  38. You've yourself and your own mighty cheek to thank for taking me out of my shell and putting me on your tracks in earnest.

  39. Well, I tracked my gentleman to the barracks, and I found Bowen in his blood, sent my trooper for a doctor, and got on your tracks before they were half an hour old.

  40. Guy had skirted the road until he came to double horse-tracks striking back into the bush; these he followed with the wary stealth of one who had spent his autumns, at least, in the right place.

  41. In the first place, I had my own reasons for knowing that Stingaree was nowhere near this place on the night of the murder, for I happen to have been on his tracks for some time.

  42. I shall not come back this way; we shall have the Clear Corner police on our tracks by moonlight, and the more they have to choose from the better.

  43. And his own tracks were being obliterated as fast as footmarks in blinding snow.

  44. They were reasonably safe tracks for the time of year, provided, of course, that great caution and vigilance when crossing the ice region were observed.

  45. Are such tracks safe tracks at that time of the year?

  46. The outward and homeward bound southern tracks were decided on as the outcome of many years' experience of the normal movement of ice.

  47. The tracks took them to the corner of the road, one arm of which went on in the same line toward the distant gates of the park.

  48. They had started walking in the tracks of the car, leaving it behind them in the hollow, still humming horribly like a huge insect that had killed a man.

  49. Rogers' foot-tracks were followed to the fence where his horse was tied, and the tracks of his horse to the house where he lived and hence to another house where he was found.

  50. These men must know the tracks as well as I do, Excellencies--perhaps better.

  51. More likely from old age or overwork," replied the professor; "a milestone, only one of the many that mark the caravan tracks across the desert.

  52. Mrs. Porne stopped in her tracks and looked at the door.

  53. Diantha stopped in her tracks and looked from one to the other of them.

  54. Only a moment was lost, while Peerless, a young dog himself, came running in and at a command from Larsen stopped in his tracks behind Comet, and pointed.

  55. Do you expect the President of the Tennessee and Northern to come up and beg you to let them lay tracks to your doors?

  56. Ef it’s de same barn hit’s got he toe-marks on hit in red paint, cuz I can show you de tracks on de hall flo’ now.

  57. And now, I understand, they say the tracks are blood.

  58. Hope I may die right in my tracks if I do!

  59. Arethusa, after descending from the train with her satchel and purse still clutched firmly, followed the crowd across the tracks under the shed, toward the iron gates she had to pass through to reach the station proper.

  60. Set your slaves to spy; threaten me with shame: But neither sire nor dame, nor prying serf shall know, What angel nightly tracks that waste of frozen snow.

  61. Moreover, they had to stop at intervals to decipher the tracks which crossed one another in the wet sand or to pick them up on rocky ground.

  62. How were they to recover the tracks of Isabel and her kidnappers?

  63. It's the four riders whose tracks we picked up.

  64. We noticed on the sandy beach tracks of the wolf, the panther, the moose, and in one place the huge track of a bear.

  65. These windfalls were neither more nor less than the old tracks of these whirlwinds and tornadoes, that had swept down the forest trees.

  66. We saw the fresh tracks of a moose on the sandy beach, tracks that had been made that morning, and we concluded to spend the day here, in the hope of securing one of these gigantic deer.

  67. We saw the tracks of all these animals hereabouts, and we hoped to get a shot at some or all of them before leaving the woods.

  68. The tracks we saw were old ones, the animals having passed there several days previously.

  69. I could hear of none having been killed the present season; but that there are some left, as well as bears, and wolves, and panthers, the tracks we saw gave unmistakable evidence.

  70. I came across him without his gun, or his hat, or his kit, making tracks for home.

  71. There were a roar, a leap, a scramble, an' Abe Pike were shooting on his tracks for the open veld.

  72. And with that I slipped away, but turned on my tracks and come back softly to peer at him.

  73. He shook his head, tried to wipe his tongue with his paws, then give a roar, and make lightning tracks for the nearest water.

  74. I followed without much hope into the valley, to find the spoor obliterated by the tracks of a troop of cattle which had been on the move since sunrise.

  75. Then Harry sed he weren't going to fool about any more, and he made tracks for the little wood above the clearing, and Willie follered.

  76. We marched next day on their tracks until two hours before sunset, when we heard some guns, and soon afterwards discovered three large fires, which appeared to be on the bank of Turkey Creek, where it empties into New river.

  77. By the tracks of blood, we imagined several of them were wounded.

  78. If you practise faithfully for a few days you will find they will look like the tracks of a very sane ant," said grandma.

  79. It looks like the tracks of a crazy ant," she said, half laughing.

  80. All along these railroad tracks the mines were stationed one back of another; as one went overboard, they would all advance a peg, a mine coming up from below on an elevator to fill up the vacant space at the end of the procession.

  81. He espied the deep tracks of the elk and fleetly followed him.

  82. Now, it rained many days, and thus the tracks of all these animals tending thither were washed away.


  83. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tracks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.