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There was not a trace of the defendant's DNA at the crime scene.
trace = a tiny quantity or indication
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- There isn't a trace of evidence to support her story.
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The study found traces of cocaine on most $20 bills used in large cities of the United States and Canada.
traces = tiny quantities
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"Yes, it is," the Warden agreed, with just a trace of disappointment in her voice.
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trace = small amount
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There wasn't a trace of cunning in May, and you could depend on her not to overthink her answers.
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I did not think I imagined the trace of satisfaction in her voice.
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trace = slight indication
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But Nat had slipped out of the room and his halfhearted pursuers reported not a single trace of him.
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He didn't like that I rushed home from the junkyard the moment the work was finished, or that I removed every trace of grease before going out with Charles.
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With a warrant we can search her place for any trace of red fibers that match those found on Chase's clothes.
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There was the trace of a grin on her face as she and Rudy Steiner, her best friend, handed out the pieces of bread on the road.
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trace = slight indication or sign
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It was as though they wanted to remove all traces of womankind from public life.
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traces = indications or signs
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If August has children with someone who doesn't have a trace of the gene, there's a 100 percent probability that their kids will inherit the gene, but a zero percent chance that their kids will have a double dose of it, like August.
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trace = indication (any evidence)
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There was no trace of her orange fur. The cat was powdered brown.
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"I'm sorry, the cabbies in this town are sharks," he said in perfect English, without a trace of an accent.
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trace = small quantity or indication
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Not only are the scars from the arena gone, but those accumulated over years of hunting have vanished without a trace.
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trace = indication that they were ever there
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His father put the book aside and looked at Roy fondly, though with a trace of sadness. "Roy, they own the property. They can do pretty much whatever they please."
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trace = slight indication (a small amount showing)
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Metal dog tags were confiscated, in an apparent effort to comply with the stipulation that those executing POWs "not …. leave any traces."
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traces = indications of what had happened
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The words shone momentarily on the page and they, too, sank without trace.
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trace = any indication left
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In 1973, Bill posted an enigmatic letter alluding vaguely to plans for an extended trip and then disappeared without a trace; to this day nobody knows what became of him.
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trace = indication or sign (of him or what happened)
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It melted, leaving no trace of a murder weapon.
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There was no trace of her at all, or of Tuck or Miles or Jesse.
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There was no trace of the young man who'd once knelt so deferentially on the ice to lace up her skates, or of the young woman who'd sweetly accepted this homage.
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trace = tiny amount (any indication)
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"The code?" Frypan repeated, his voice lighting up with a trace of hope.
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trace = small sign or indication
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There wasn't a trace of sarcasm.
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Without a trace of doubt.
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"Next year, every trace of your existence here will be removed from the island," Edwin said.
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trace = slight indication or sign
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All traces of cheer had left the Happy Medium's face.
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September had come, but not a trace of cool weather with it, and we were still sleeping on the back screen porch.
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trace = slight indication or sign
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With unthinking sureness I moved out on the limb and jumped into the river, every trace of my fear of this forgotten.
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There hasn't been the trace of a ship.
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Not a trace of the gold nib was left.
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The car he'd stolen had been found deserted on a side street in Louisville last night, but there had been no trace of Paul.
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Or maybe, by some off chance, there was still a trace of Jeremy Pratt left in this body.
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How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?
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trace = indication or sign
- There was no trace of the missing physician. (source)
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Of that imagined stoicism, that theoretical courage, not a trace was left.
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A trace of anger was in the general's black eyes, but it was there for but a second, and he said, in his most pleasant manner: "Dear me, what a righteous young man you are! I assure you I do not do the thing you suggest."
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I could find no trace of them anywhere.
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There were traces about it of gold embroidery, which, however, was greatly frayed and defaced, so that none, or very little, of the glitter was left.
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traces = small indications (that something had been present)
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In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.
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traces = indications or signs
- And there is only a microtrace of pulp in container juice.† (source)
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The sky was now tinged with the faintest trace of pink.
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Well, I did have just a trace of doubt, that was because you talked so crazy here.
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Every trace of pride and haughtiness was wiped from her face.
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[The arrows] bear no trace of the noxious green slime that came from Glimmer's body—
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A wave of heated air trembled above the ashes but without a trace of smoke.
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Covering her footprints; leaving no trace.
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trace = indication that she was ever there
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Glumly he checked for footprints and found not one. Mullet Fingers had fled without a trace.
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trace = leaving any indication that he had been there
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Ron looked toward him, and Harry thought he saw a trace of scarlet in his eyes.
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All that time without a trace and now a letter.
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The horizon stretched, impersonal once more, barren of all but the faintest trace of smoke.
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trace = slight indication
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They looked high and low for it, all over the room, and never found a trace.
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He sits there, uncomplaining, while I wash away all the traces of dirt from his hair and skin.
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traces = small bits
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Harry could not see a trace of Malfoy, Crabbe, or Goyle anywhere.
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But there was nothing but traces of cinder clinging to onionskin.
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There was the faintest trace of longing in his voice as he looked at the Elder Wand.
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For a moment her heart lifted with a trace of Mercy's excitement.
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But there was no trace of fear in those fawnlike eyes as Hannah held out the stick.
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Nobody's ever found a trace of it, have they?
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- The last trace of steam evaporated in the autumn air. (source)
- There's not a trace of my jealousy left now; I still feel hurt when Father's nerves cause him to be unreasonable toward me, but then I think, "I can't blame you for being the way you are." (source)
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The first traces of dawn had crept up on them, and Thomas could see every detail of Newt's face, his skin tight, his brow creased.
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traces = indications or small quantities
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Harry sat on his four-poster and flicked through the blank pages, not one of which had a trace of scarlet ink on it.
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trace = small quantity or indication
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For my birthday last year, I had a black and white party. Any trace of color, and you weren't even allowed in the door.
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We saw no trace of Tim Johnson.
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The Spirit Bear never once slowed or looked back. Cole fought back his tears until the last trace of white faded into the thick underbrush,
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trace = sight (indication)
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As they moved through the grayness Meg caught an occasional glimpse of slaglike rocks, but there were no traces of trees or bushes, nothing but flat ground under their feet, no sign of any vegetation at all.
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I've pored over grainy sepia pictures of long-dead relatives... and not once have I been able to detect even the slightest trace of August's face in their faces.
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Farther down stream, beyond the bluff, were traces of an old cotton landing, where Finch Negroes had loaded bales and produce, unloaded blocks of ice, flour and sugar, farm equipment, and feminine apparel.
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When Curly told his wife of his overnight guard duties, she received the news with no trace of annoyance or concern.
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trace = indication (sign)
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There wasn't the faintest trace of writing on any of them, not even Auntie Mabel's birthday, or dentist, half-past three.
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That night, Newt and Alby gathered every last Glader at the East Door about a half hour before it closed, the first traces of twilight's dimness creeping across the sky.
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traces = indications or small quantities
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"I've been watching you from my window," he said in his hooting voice with a rare trace of personal interest.
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trace = slight indication or sign
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"There—" Before the others could examine the drop of blood, Jack had swerved off, judging a trace, touching a bough that gave.
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The tone of his words fell dead center, without a trace of friendliness or unfriendliness, not interested and not bored, not energetic and not languid.
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Then, when she reached hard ground, she whispered across it, jumping from grass clump to sticks, leaving no trace.
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trace = indication that she was ever there
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After making two circuits of the walk every trace of energy was as usual completely used up, and as I drove myself on all my scattered aches found their usual way to a profound seat of pain in my side.
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trace = tiny amount
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"And then," said Jack, "when I've had a bathe and something to eat, I'll just trek over to the other side of the mountain and see if I can see any traces."
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traces = indications
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I washed the traces off me and then put on a pair of chocolate brown slacks, a pair which Phineas had been particularly critical of when he wasn't wearing them, and a blue flannel shirt.
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traces = small bits
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On the threshold of the room stood Nat Eaton, slim, straight-shouldered, without a trace of mockery in his level blue eyes.
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trace = indication or sign
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An object that had been lost this long, and apparently without trace, did not seem like a good candidate for the Horcrux hidden in the castle …
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trace = small quantity or indication
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The stadium itself, two white concrete banks of seats, was as powerful and alien to me as an Aztec ruin, filled with the traces of vanished people and vanished rites, of supreme emotions and supreme tragedies.
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traces = small indications (that something had been present)
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There was no trace of life or motion.
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trace = indication or sign
- There's not a trace of her. (source)
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"But then… do you mean…" said Hermione slowly, and Harry could tell that she was trying to keep any trace of skepticism out of her voice, "that you believe these objects — these Hallows — really exist?"
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Harry did not want to enter the village like a pantomime horse, trying to keep themselves concealed while magically covering their traces.
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traces = indications or small quantities
- Creamy white vernix whorled in her delicate skin, and she was slippery with amniotic fluid and traces of blood. (source)
- He was a sturdy boy, five years old now, cheerful and good-natured, with dark brown eyes and traces of red in his blond hair. (source)
- He thought of Norah, who had become a self-sufficient and powerful woman, who courted corporate accounts with glittery assurance and came in from dinners smelling of wine and rain, traces of laughter, triumph, and success still on her face. (source)
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The only trace of the men was found years afterward.
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Miss Goreham had been doomed to a life of single blessedness, said Reenie with a trace of contempt.
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trace = slight indication
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Traces of bread crumbs were in the creases of his overalls.
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traces = small bits
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No trace of the young man was ever found.
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trace = small quantity or indication
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I found a paper bag in the attic stapled at the top. Inside it I found the last traces of my mother.
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His men searched for hours but found no trace of him.
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The trace of blown cloud in the brilliant sky, like ice cream smudged on chrome.
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The crew had searched for Corpening's plane all day but had seen no trace of it.
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trace = indication or sign
- Many weeks passed, and the military's search yielded no trace of Louie, his crew, or his plane. (source)
- "Then congratulations, you are already halfway to being a man," he said with no trace of humor, no irony, the compliment of the casually arrogant. (source)
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There was hardly a trace he'd ever lived in the house, except one: every night, after dinner, I would close the door to my room and pull Tyler's old boom box from under my bed.
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trace = indication
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Were they able to trace the phone call?
trace = find the origin through investigation
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Early cat domestication is traced back to China over 5,000 years ago.
traced = found through investigation
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She used a pre-paid phone that is untraceable.
untraceable = not able to track or discover who owned itstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untraceable means not and reverses the meaning of traceable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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She traced the student's progress.
traced = tracked the development of
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The book traces the development of the smartphones.
traces = reports research findings
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They traced the illnesses back to a single restaurant.
traced = followed (to its source through investigation)
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He swam to shore, landing on the Outer Banks, found a wife, and fathered thirteen children. Many could trace their roots back to that one Mr. Walker, but Scupper and Tate stayed mostly to themselves.
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trace = find through investigation
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I traced the string to a kid standing about thirty yards from us.
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traced = followed (to find the origin)
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But that doesn't prevent me from feeling the sharp stab of pain as the needle inserts the metal tracking device deep under the skin on the inside of my forearm. Now the Gamemakers will always be able to trace my whereabouts in the arena.
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trace = find or follow
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That way, he explained, he burned up the brand name, and if the people who were tracking us looked in his ashtray, they'd find unidentifiable butts instead of Pall Malls that could be traced to him.
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traced = investigated to track back
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In typical cases of juvenile vandalism, the crimes could be traced to a group of youngsters, each trying to outdo the other for thrills.
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traced = followed through investigation
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"I might tell you that you can trace my family back through nine generations of witches and warlocks and my blood's as pure as anyone's, so —"
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trace = find something through investigation
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By and by the rangers traced the car's serial number to the Hertz Corporation, the vehicle's original owner; Hertz said they had sold it as a used rental car many years earlier and had no interest in reclaiming it.
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traced = researched (to find where it came from)
- I was informed of the accident by a policeman: the car was mine, and they'd traced the licence. (source)
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They can't trace that stuff if you just use public Wi-Fi.
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trace = find through investigation
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Later, of course, there would be a thousand who claimed they were there, or who invented genealogies to trace their blood back.
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trace = follow (by research)
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He says as far as he can trace back the Finches we ain't, but for all he knows we mighta come straight out of Ethiopia durin' the Old Testament.
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trace = search (through investigation)
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He found the audio-capsule, he heard your voice, he was going to trace it.
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trace = find out where it came from
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But to trace out the history of the whole period, to say who was fighting whom at any given moment, would have been utterly impossible, since no written record, and no spoken word, ever made mention of any other alignment than the existing one.
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trace = find
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He didn't say any more, but it was easy enough for me to trace back the story and reconstruct it.
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trace = find through investigation
- It's pretty certain they'll trace your car. (source)
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Even so zealous a hunter as General Zaroff could not trace him there, he told himself; only the devil himself could follow that complicated trail through the jungle after dark.
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trace = follow
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If there be anything behind this instinct it will be valuable to trace it afterwards accurately, so I...
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trace = follow (by research)
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...he began to think that the source and secret of this ghostly light might be in the adjoining room, from whence, on further tracing it, it seemed to shine.
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tracing = investigation
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They cannot be traced.
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traced = found through investigation
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We'll trace this and drop it in on your friend.
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trace = find out where the communication is coming from
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None of the boys could have found good reason for this; what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy while the most obvious leader was Jack.
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traceable = able to be followed (to its source)standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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Haven't been able to trace any record of an illegal operation or anything of that kind.
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trace = find through investigation
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Almost immediately the footprints of a pig were discovered in the grass at a little distance from the knoll. They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge.
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traced = found, sought, or researched
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We could trace it through the drifted snow.
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trace = find, search, or research
- It was now my object to trace that horrid cargo of the Count's to its place in London. (source)
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Only ten days ago a wolf got out, and was, I believe, traced up in this direction.
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traced = found, sought, or researched
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…and so, with the usual beginnings, hardly to be traced as to what came first,
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traced = found through investigation
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His movements — he was on foot all the time — were afterward traced to Port Roosevelt and then to Gad's Hill, where he bought a sandwich that he didn't eat, and a cup of coffee.
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traced = followed through investigation
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The Professor has a strongly humorous side, and I could from old knowledge detect a trace of its origin in his answer.
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trace = find, search, or research
- We now know of twenty-one boxes having been removed, and if it be that several were taken in any of these removals we may be able to trace them all. (source)
- If the latter, we must trace …. (source)
- Then I caught the patient's eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked into the moonlight sky, except a big bat, which was flapping its silent and ghostly way to the west. (source)
- We must trace each of these boxes, and when we are ready, we must either capture or kill this monster in his lair, or we must, so to speak, sterilize the earth, so that no more he can seek safety in it. (source)
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It was begun after you had left, and was an imitation of you, and in that diary she traces by inference certain things to a sleep-walking in which she puts down that you saved her.
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traces = finds, searches, or researches
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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.
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trace = find
- It fit the requirements of authenticity, traceability.† (source)
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It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball.
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traceable = able to be followed (to its source through investigation)
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I even traced the pattern of stimulus-and-reaction that caused my nervousness and excitement.
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traced = researched
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To see her and trace back to learn what I was?
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trace = find through investigation
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Emmett was swinging an aluminum bat; it whistled almost untraceably through the air.†
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standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in untraceably means not and reverses the meaning of traceably. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- This phone had served Mal'akh well …. but now it was time it became untraceable.† (source)
- It's like this document is on a server that is untraceable."† (source)
- The vast fortune belonging to Zachary Solomon had all been moved to an untraceable numbered account.† (source)
- Grief lined the General's face in an easily traceable fretwork.† (source)
- Sims said the shootings came a few years after the home run but were directly traceable.† (source)
- His voice was low, emotions untraceable.† (source)
- Everything untraceable, the slate clean.† (source)
- He'll know it anyway from the operator, but the call won't be traceable to this hotel.† (source)
- … Very well, the order will be issued secretly, its origins untraceable, of course.† (source)
- Hiring killers is too traceable, the transferring of money too traceable.† (source)
- He planted a weapon, made sure it was traceable.† (source)
- Traceable accountability was the new order of the new regime.† (source)
- The assassin was the untraceable link to Sheng.† (source)
- The routings are convoluted to the point of being untraceable.† (source)
- I want nothing traceable, even with Four Zero security.† (source)
- Mock up charges-not traceable to us, of course.† (source)
- For putting me back together he was to receive a fifth of Zurich, untraceable to him.† (source)
- You, yourself, made sure it was untraceable.† (source)
- The source could be untraceable, but it's all I've got.† (source)
- Harry felt a floating sensation as every thought and worry in his head was wiped gently away, leaving nothing but a vague, untraceable happiness.† (source)
- Known in international espionage circles as 'the Viper' for the deadly and untraceable venom he injected into the balls of the feet of his celebrity victims , the assassin died in a fiery Moscow helicopter crash just hours before little Patti Weaver was born in Popular Mechanics, Iowa.† (source)
- Chiron said cell phones were traceable by monsters; if we used one, it would be worse than sending up a flare.† (source)
- The cardinals exchanged uneasy looks, and finally one said, "Yes, but these bonds are traceable directly to the Vatican Bank."† (source)
- We were going to do a phone, a doctored phone, but none of us were nerd enough to be sure we did it totally untraceable.† (source)
- Vicars and curates, with the occasional bookseller thrown in for variety, and only traceable back to 1762 or so.† (source)
- Momma, always self-conscious at public displays of emotions not traceable to a religious source, told me to come with her and we'd bring the bread and bowls.† (source)
- Michael put it: Well, if you and Rosalind are quite satisfied that there's been nothing to start suspicion in your district, then I don't see that it can be traceable to anybody but that man in the forest.'† (source)
- Nothing traceable.† (source)
- No. Fortier had first recruited Svensson fifteen years ago to conduct a much simpler operation: untraceable arms deals with several interested nations, which involved biological weapons research in exchange for lucrative con-tracts.† (source)
- And it is this generous giving—the seemingly unlimited supply of cash that Wahhabi operatives smuggle into Pakistan, both in suitcases and through the untraceable hawala money-transfer system—that has shaped their image among Pakistan's population.† (source)
- The man who committed these crimes would not make so foolish a mistake to leave a traceable weapon behind.† (source)
- Untraceable.† (source)
- His home phone, he knew, would leave a traceable record, but he had to hear her voice tonight, even if it was only on the machine.† (source)
- Yes, on the other hand, who is to say that the arrangement of the stars is more easily traceable to nature, than to nature's molder?† (source)
- And because Itex is a world-class, top-secret, paranoid techfest, the linkup has constantly changing codes and passkeys-its signal is completely untraceable.† (source)
- You let my daughter go off …. with Jace …. to some unfindable, untraceable place where none of us can reach her?† (source)
- A pay phone, nothing traceable!† (source)
- This is an untraceable Hotmail address.† (source)
- As I studied Pearce's face before I woke him, I wondered about his mixed and untraceable bloodlines, wondered what abducted tribes had combined to produce such furious handsomeness.† (source)
- When he touched down at a disused airbase outside Jalalabad, with attaché cases crammed with untraceable hundred-dollar bills, and a retinue of fighters, seasoned, as he was, by prior campaigns in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, Osama Bin Laden was reportedly in a foul mood.† (source)
- For some elusive reason images of Paris came to him, then the blurred outlines of telephone booths as he and Marie raced from one to another through the blinding Paris streets, making blind, untraceable calls, hoping to unravel the enigma that was Jason Bourne.† (source)
- No traceable source.† (source)
- Good Christ, I paid fifteen thousand dollars to make certain everything was silent, absolutely untraceable-not that the money matters, of course-† (source)
- He knocked twice with the knuckles of his left hand; in his right was the untraceable automatic supplied by Alexander Conklin, the crown prince of dark operations.† (source)
- Arithmetically, an untraceable message.† (source)
- Made his own arrangements, payments funneled through third and fourth parties unknown to each other, the source untraceable, all connections to the Agency and Treadstone obliterated.† (source)
- He's got firepower, an untraceable network of gunslingers and couriers, and for every crevice he can crawl into and burst out from, there are dozens more available to him.† (source)
- A bank officer in Zurich who thought he was being tested by Treadstone transferred. a million and a half Swiss francs to Marseilles for an untraceable collection.† (source)
- Casset told me later that the Agency doesn't want any traceable records of anything that takes place over there, and that's the best guarantee you can ask for.† (source)
- Not bad for a career soldier from a lower-middle-class family in Nebraska who married a hairdresser in Hawaii thirty years ago, and supposedly bought his manse ten years ago on the strength of a very sizable inheritance from an untraceable benefactor, an obscure wealthy uncle I couldn't find.† (source)
- Naturally it is untraceable.† (source)
- Any failure traceable to arrogance, or our lack of comprehension or readiness to sacrifice would inflict upon us grievous hurt both at home and abroad.† (source)
- Standing not for the agency you think, but for a clandestine Mexican outfit known as the Conjuracion de los Insurgentes Anarquistas, traceable back to the time of the Flores Magon brothers and later briefly allied with Zapata.† (source)
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The mothers stayed back in the kitchen washing and drying, putting things away, recrossing their traceless footsteps like the lifetime journeys of bees, measuring out the dry cocoa for breakfast.†
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standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in traceless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
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She didn't have a camera or a copier, so she used a pencil to trace an outline of the picture on thin paper.
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- She used a projector and a pencil to trace an image of an eagle on the paper and then filled in the painting with water colors.
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She used a stick to trace a mysterious symbol on the sand.
trace = draw
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After they discussed the list, Mabel traced Kya's feet on a piece of brown paper bag, then said, "Well, come back tomorrer and there'll be a stack here for ya."
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traced = drew an outline of
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My fingers trace the circle around the little gold mockingjay and I think of the woods, and of my father, and of my mother and Prim waking up, having to get on with things.
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Then he focused on Jesus bending down, his finger tracing words in the sand at the Pharisees' feet, sending the men scattering in fear.
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He pulled Harry's wand from his pocket and began to trace it through the air, writing three shimmering words: TOM MARVOLO RIDDLE Then he waved the wand once, and the letters of his name rearranged themselves: I AM LORD VOLDEMORT
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trace = draw specific patterns
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He traced out an SOS in huge letters across the firebreak but before anyone could read what he had written he wiped the letters away.
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traced = drew
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Across the table from me, Mychal was working on a new art project—meticulously tracing the waveforms of some song onto a sheet of thin, translucent paper—while Daisy regaled our lunch table with the story of her car purchase, without ever quite revealing how she came across the necessary funds.
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tracing = drawing
- While he ate the last of the pears, I marked out his route with stones, tracing the stops and dangers. (source)
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They got to work, tracing from original Maps to wax paper, one by one, trying to keep it clean and correct while hurrying as fast as possible.
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tracing = copying
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He picked up a small stick and traced in the dirt.
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traced = drew
- In the clean white sand on the floor Hannah traced a careful B. Looking at Prudence, Kit held her breath. (source)
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Her fingers were tracing the book's outline and as the shape became familiar her face looked surprised and then stunned.
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tracing = following along (drawing)
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I reached out and touched it, remembering the way those brushstrokes felt. I traced them until my finger fell off the edge of the canvas. I traced them until my finger fell off the edge of the canvas.
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Syme had fallen silent for a moment, and with the handle of his spoon was tracing patterns in the puddle of stew.
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tracing = drawing
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The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water.
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All right, everybody trace the last ten or so days onto a piece of this stuff.
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trace = draw
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Cole traced the eraser of his pencil across the table.
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Newt had three or four Gladers help us trace the Maps.
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The letter was an incredible treasure, proof that Lily Potter had lived, really lived, that her warm hand had once moved across this parchment, tracing ink into these letters, these words, words about him, Harry, her son.
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She grasped the quill in tense, careful fingers, and her lips silently formed each letter as she traced the lines.
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My fingers obsessively trace the hard little lump on my forearm where the woman injected the tracking device.
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"I think we'll start with your mouth."
I clamp my teeth together as she teasingly traces the outline of my lips with the tip of the blade. (source)traces = draws
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Boldly Prudence reached to take it in her own hand, and carefully and proudly she traced the lines herself.
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traced = drew
- Silently, they did as he asked, sorting through what they'd traced until eight low stacks of wax paper lined the table. (source)
- But Teresa, sitting next to him, was a study in concentration, her tongue sticking out the corner of her mouth as she traced lines up and down, side to side. (source)
- Almost unconsciously he traced with his finger in the dust on the table: 2+2= (source)
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Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding.
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They followed a path that traces along the edges of a dark forest.
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A single tear traced its way down her cheek.
traced = followed a specific path
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She used her finger to trace a route on the map.
trace = follow
- His finger seems to instinctively trace the tattoo on his forearm — an A with a crown over it. (source)
- ...I can read my journals from this period and trace the evolution—of a young girl rewriting her history. (source)
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Some tendrils twisted into tight spirals and traced the warmer ravines, behaving like mist tracking the dank fens of the marsh.
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traced = following
- She puzzled over the patchwork of scraps for a long time, tracing the lines with her finger, murmuring the parts of words. (source)
- "Me neither," he said, his eyes tracing the bird's circular flight. (source)
- Louie told the story as the Japanese listened in silent fascination, tracing the journey on a map. (source)
- The slender tops fairly flapped and swished in the passionate torrent, bending and swirling backward and forward, round and round, tracing indescribable combinations of vertical and horizontal curves, while I clung with muscles firm braced, like a bobolink on a reed. (source)
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I reached out and traced black Mary's heart with my finger.
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He was saying, "Hm" and tracing the lines of my palm with his finger.
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In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed.
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She stood in front of the mirror tracing the lines along her forehead and neck with her finger.
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I liked feeling his body against mine, one of his hands tracing my spine.
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I was remembering the sea-routes Hermes had drawn for me so long ago. I traced them in my mind.
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His fingers were tracing my lips.
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He wanted to reach out and trace the delicate curved bones of her ribs; he wanted to kiss her at the point the bones met, stretching away like wings.
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Even after the lights had gone up, while they were shuffling slowly along with the crowd towards the lifts, its ghost still fluttered against her lips, still traced fine shuddering roads of anxiety and pleasure across her skin.
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You could still trace the stone causeways that led up to the ruined gates where the last splinters of wood hung to the worn, rusted hinges.
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The course of the little brook might be traced by its merry gleam afar into the wood's heart of mystery, which had become a mystery of joy.
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The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and re-crossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water.
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When I quitted Geneva my first labour was to gain some clue by which I might trace the steps of my fiendish enemy.
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I traced the patterns carved into the perfect block of stone beneath me, not meeting his eyes.
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I used to trace its bones with my finger while he slept.
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A line of acid was tracing through my stomach.
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tracing = following the path
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I traced back through the halls and corridors to the palace center.
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The rivulets of molten blood were still tracing down his legs.
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tracing = following the curves
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Veins, pale blue, traced just below the surface of her skin.
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traced = followed
- David traced the light-filled image with his fingertips. (source)
- Paul traced his finger along the edge of the cast. (source)
- Phoebe traced her fingers over the names and dates engraved in the dark granite. (source)
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Momma traces the rim of her mug.
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She stood up and traced around its edges with her finger and began to laugh—quietly at first, but soon her shoulders were heaving and she was gasping for breath.
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traced = followed
- I traced the mosses, the hummocks of ground upwards, and, at the base of a white poplar, I found a blooming patch of dittany. (source)
- Then Sam had traced the shaft of variegated light on her thigh with his finger, and slowly she'd felt her own sharp edges begin to soften, to blur, her emotions bleeding one into another in mysterious sequence, from darkest indigo to gold, reluctance transforming, mysteriously, to desire. (source)
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She can feel his ribs, trace the spaces between.
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trace = follow
- After he left, I didn't move except to trace the bars of light on the bed with my finger. (source)
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He just held it in both hands, traced his thumb over its surface.
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A neat, sharp form, flat and shining, cut the surface and began tracing circles around the rafts.
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tracing = moving in
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I traced my fingers along the gold-colored stitching on the borders.
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traced = followed
- I traced the curve of each letter with my fingers. (source)
- I traced my fingers along the gold— stitched borders. (source)
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Softly, he began to talk of his life with Pete, tracing the paths they had taken since pneumonia had brought them to California in 1919.
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On the morning of September 2, a B-29 known as Ghost Ship traced the long thread of beach marking the coast of western Japan.
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The three spent most of their outdoor time together, sitting on benches or tracing the edges of the compound, distracting one another from the tooth-chattering cold with mind exercises.
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The finger then floats to Hassan's face and makes a dry, scratchy sound as it slowly traces the curve of his cheeks, the outline of his ears.
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As the castaways slumped in the rafts, trying to accept another lost chance, over the western horizon there was a glimmer, tracing a wide curve, then banking toward the rafts.
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My hair was receding and streaked with gray, and lately I'd traced little crow's-feet etched around the corners of my eyes.
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traced = followed
- I lay in the dark the night Rahim Khan called and traced with my eyes the parallel silver lines on the wall made by moonlight pouring through the blinds. (source)
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The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
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trace = follow
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Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.
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I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.
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- He traced out the route for himself, but there was no real choice.† (source)
- But there's still a trace of laughter in his eyes, so I turn my head away from him.† (source)
- The gratitude he had felt earlier was gone without a trace.† (source)
- They traced command and control back to office buildings in China.† (source)
- Rather than the flowering trees of central Moscow, the honey had a hint of a grassy riverbank …. the trace of a summer breeze …. a suggestion of a pergola….† (source)
- Lale traces a finger over his numbers.† (source)
- Make sure you leave no trace.† (source)
- Levy said with his distinctive Baltimore drawl: a trace of a southern twang with words contracted and vowels swallowed.† (source)
- All traces of the bomb they'd planted were probably melting into slag right now.† (source)
- Not a trace of it has been found.† (source)
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- Mom traces a finger along my cheek.† (source)
- I smelled the cloth, but found no trace of Mother.† (source)
- He traced gently around the lids.† (source)
- He turned due south, letting his eye trace the extended line formed by the medallions.† (source)
- He traced a line on her sore hand with a finger.† (source)
- The boy traced the route to the sea with his finger.† (source)
- I have discovered, deep in the hearts of many condemned and incarcerated people, the scattered traces of hope and humanity—seeds of restoration that come to astonishing life when nurtured by very simple interventions.† (source)
- "Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment.† (source)
- Silas said, "We have both left too many tracks and traces in the last few weeks.† (source)
- They remembered Count Olaf saying he had a map of the city, and they looked thoroughly for it, but they couldn't find any trace of a map, and decided it must be in the tower, where they were forbidden to go.† (source)
- So we can't trace gun ownership back to the murderer.† (source)
- They had been disgraced by her birth, and this was their chance to erase, once and for all, the last trace of their husband's scandalous mistake.† (source)
- He heard a trace of it.† (source)
- I lifted my hand to his face and let it trace his beautiful bones.† (source)
- "But they can trace you through the computer, and then they'd find me, too."† (source)
- All of this had been spoken softly, without the least trace of excitement or drama in Milligan's voice.† (source)
- I think we half expected to see traces of red still clinging to her face.† (source)
- I traced the music to 16 East Jones Street, a yellow stuccoed townhouse four houses away.† (source)
- I can smell traces of him on you, and you haven't been near him for a week.† (source)
- All traces of the Shinalator's miracle are gone.† (source)
- I'll run an execution trace on the link," he said.† (source)
- Occasionally, when someone noticed a trace of an accent and asked me where I came from, I would reply vaguely, "From the east."† (source)
- I knew never to eat without getting all traces of chemicals off me, especially the odor.† (source)
- And no trace of Elena, either.† (source)
- What if they trace it back to my family?† (source)
- They were not descended from the founding fathers; you could not trace a Meany back to John Adams.† (source)
- There was no trace of the mailbox.† (source)
- Like Atlas about to slip into the traces.† (source)
- She opened the dark curtains and the windows; she curled once more in the rocker, trying to relax; she traced their route in her mind.† (source)
- Picking at the quilt, running his fingers over the stitching, tracing the borders of the patches like he's tracing the path on a treasure map.† (source)
- There was a trace of a grin on Du Hai's face.† (source)
- The work space was cleared of all traces of me.† (source)
- It won't be long before all visible traces of human habitation will be gone.† (source)
- I look at their faces again and I see no trace of my mother in them.† (source)
- "He'll use the bloodbase to trace them, and hunt them down."† (source)
- First she looked at technical websites, searching for answers on how to trace IMs.† (source)
- There was no trace of the dealers, the police, or the crowds of people who had gathered to watch the excitement.† (source)
- She sighs, tracing her finger along his ear until he turns his head and bites it, takes it in his mouth.† (source)
- Because she wanted no trace of an accent in her heaven, she had none.† (source)
- It was the same bog and the same path and the same everything as before, but for the first time since my arrival it was bathed in cheery yellow sunlight, the sky a candy blue, no trace of the twisting fog that, for me, had come to define this part of the island.† (source)
- She's my hero," Alaska said without a trace of irony.† (source)
- As I ate, I could smell traces of the dogs, but I ate anyway.† (source)
- And when Max went to her house the next day, there was no trace of her.† (source)
- With his index finger, in the traces of leftover sauce, he begins to draw on his plate.† (source)
- How she would have liked her mother to have seen it; how she would have liked to see her, even if only to be told with a look that she needed to wipe the traces of chocolate from her lips with her napkin.† (source)
- We found no trace of the direwolf, Your Grace.† (source)
- His fingers trace swirly patterns on my arm.† (source)
- Those defiant eyes showed no trace of fear.† (source)
- He pulled one of his arms out from under her and traced her outline against the couch.† (source)
- --raises her head and the trace of a smile plays on her lips.† (source)
- After all, they'd found traces of the child's flesh in the ashes.† (source)
- He lowered his chin and stared at the traces as though he would force them to speak to him.† (source)
- I could see traces of tears that she had tried wiping away.† (source)
- I gently trace the outline of her cheek, then take her hand in mine.† (source)
- When she stopped before me, I traced the outline of her neck with my fingers.† (source)
- Slowly, he lowered me to the mattress of pillows, holding on to me, tracing curves as he kissed me on and on.† (source)
- Christoph traced the outline of a cell with his finger.† (source)
- So when the government traces me.† (source)
- He clears his throat and begins tracing the rim of his plate again.† (source)
- They will be trying to trace that thing for years.† (source)
- Full well the boding tremblers learned to trace The day's disaster in his morning face.† (source)
- We can trace this back to the year 1980 -- an important year in the history of corn.† (source)
- At 16,000 feet now, we'd left behind the last trace of green.† (source)
- He drops into a squat and traces his father's name with his thumb.† (source)
- Eventually I found a scrap of clean tracing paper.† (source)
- HERMIONE: Yes, Draco, Voldemort is dead, but these things all lead us to think that there is a possibility that Voldemort—or some trace of Voldemort—might be back.† (source)
- I think I can trace the sequence of events here.† (source)
- He rubs his thumb across mine, tracing a path from knuckle to wrist.† (source)
- Thin lines began to trace their way across graph paper.† (source)
- Any traces of humor were gone, her eyes wide.† (source)
- And though we listened for a trace of jealousy in her voice, we didn't hear one.† (source)
- A line of blood traced down the Shade's arm.† (source)
- And from a historical perspective, as briefly mentioned earlier, SEALs trace their origins to the Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams, or UDTs.† (source)
- No sign of Rabbi Shilsky, whom I traced to a Brooklyn address in the 1960s, where he apparently landed after wandering through Norfolk, Virginia; Belleville, New Jersey; and Manhattan.† (source)
- There is not a trace of pleading in her voice.† (source)
- Kate said it without a trace of sympathy.† (source)
- A simple lie to keep from being traced.† (source)
- How did you trace me?† (source)
- All traces of my sudden good humor vanished.† (source)
- She traced the patterns with her finger, and slowly her eyes filled with tears.† (source)
- The DMV was a blue wooden shack in the woods, but there wasn't a trace of nature inside.† (source)
- Traces of the camp's military purpose were all around.† (source)
- They'll trace it.† (source)
- But of course now it was simple to trace back and find so many places each of us could have done better.† (source)
- A search by Scotland Yard had found no trace of any of them.† (source)
- What we have to work with is hints and allegations, really, evidence, sometimes only a trace, that points to something lying behind the text.† (source)
- Anyone can trace their ancestry very easily back a thousand years.† (source)
- The reason why Mr. Grey wasn't worried about anyone tracing us back to Blount….† (source)
- Sethe looked up into Paul D's eyes to see if there was any trace left in them.† (source)
- Every trace of that deer's gone now.† (source)
- No trace of this personal tragedy showed in his care for the rest of us.† (source)
- Douglas, did you trace that?† (source)
- Mr. Bykovski had a trace of an accent, which didn't seem strange to me.† (source)
- Not a trace.† (source)
- "This room contains a number of cards tracing that connection," the Librarian says.† (source)
- Today there are few remaining traces of the city's cowboy past.† (source)
- I ran my hands up and down the length of his torso, focusing on the sinews in his muscles, assigning each one a string—A, G, C, D. I traced them down, one at a time, with the tip of my fingers.† (source)
- Frankie pressed her finger on my eyelids and a drop traced down my cheek.† (source)
- To be lost without a trace.† (source)
- Not only had Basta gone, but the Magpie also disappeared without a trace that night.† (source)
- They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace.† (source)
- Sophie asked, without a trace of sarcasm.† (source)
- But there was dislike in his eyes too, a trace of scorn.† (source)
- I suppose there's no way of tracing them now, is there?† (source)
- The wall under which the corpses lay showed clear traces of bloodstains and brain tissue.† (source)
- It explained why they had found no trace of Missy.† (source)
- His fingers are tracing slowly over my belly.† (source)
- Is there a trace of challenge in Xander's voice?† (source)
- The red light traced faint lines across his body, across his back and arms.† (source)
- I see traces of anger, compassion, guilt and helplessness.† (source)
- His fingers move slowly up my back, tracing my spine.† (source)
- I'd signed away permission to trace credit cards and ATMs and track Amy's cell phone, I'd handed over Go's cell number and the name of Sue, the widow at The Bar, who could presumably attest to the time I arrived.† (source)
- She spoke, not looking at him but with no trace of rage in her voice, almost with gentleness.† (source)
- Eventually, one of the guards would trace Glass's movements to Walden, to Luke's floor—maybe even to his flat.† (source)
- Gently, he traced the arm, exposed her face.† (source)
- All traces of anger are gone.† (source)
- Gone without a trace.† (source)
- Yet these emotions, the Review must stress, should not include a blind, hysterical hatred of all persons who trace their ancestry to fa pan.† (source)
- And above all, how was she supposed to trace this Hilde person?† (source)
- That shadow would marry this shadow, and the peculiar, yellowish soil of our locality seal the wound in the whiteness, and yet another snowfall erase the traces of newness in Joan's grave.† (source)
- Nadia frequently explored the terrain of social media, though she left little trace of her passing, not posting much herself, and employing opaque usernames and avatars, the online equivalents of her black robes.† (source)
- But neither could I give up the last traces of hope.† (source)
- "Very nice," was his comment as he traced his fingertip along the edge of her bra.† (source)
- If the statements are traced to me, he'll be shot.† (source)
- With the sharp end of the scalpel, Felix lightly traced his own clown-faced grimace.† (source)
- Lower down, his neck was peculiarly swollen, his throat collared in bruises, the traces of a gun butt.† (source)
- Farther downstream, beyond the bluff, were traces of the old cotton landing where Finch Negroes loaded bales and produce, and unloaded blocks of ice, flour and sugar, farm equipment, and ladies' things.† (source)
- The family tree could be traced back to the early sixteenth century, when the name was Vangeersad.† (source)
- I noticed then the lines in her face, the traces of gray in her black hair.† (source)
- We trace this hypothetical line of vision with great care.† (source)
- But the crowds were in his way, and he was strong but he was thin and he cried, "Fezzik—Fezzik—we must track that sound, we must trace it to its source, and I cannot move, so you must lead me.† (source)
- I hadn't written a line home for a year, to keep them from tracing me.† (source)
- There was no trace of a party.† (source)
- It was as though the Indian blood had routed every trace of the Celtic strain.† (source)
- She traced the lip of her wineglass with one finger.† (source)
- I could trace the circumstances.† (source)
- I heard the jingle of the trace chains as they tightened in the singletrees.† (source)
- I slowly trace kisses down her neck and shoulders.† (source)
- Will's father put a heavy hand out to trace the old carnival portraits.† (source)
- Each Xhosa belongs to a clan that traces itsdescent back to a specific forefather.† (source)
- Look at Things Soon all traces of Dictionopolis had vanished in the distance and all those strange and unknown lands that lay between the kingdom of words and the kingdom of numbers stretched before them.† (source)
- With my finger, I traced a zero around the barrel hole, feeling the cold dead steel and imagining a bullet, tiny as a sliver, racing up my arm and zinging into my brain.† (source)
- She pauses, tracing the outline of my erection.† (source)
- The raid had left traces of terror on his face.† (source)
- I Stumbled up the Driveway wanting desperately to shed the lingering traces of eau de Brendan.† (source)
- There was no trace of him!† (source)
- No trace.† (source)
- His mother was raped in Georgia while his papa stood by tied to the hot iron stove with plow traces, blood streaming into his shoes.† (source)
- First came a blast of water jets, which washed traces of blood from her space suit.† (source)
- THE ZIATYS' STORY, as well as any, shows the extent to which modern refugees can trace their displacement to the mistakes, greed, fears, crimes, and foibles of men who long preceded them, sometimes by decades—or longer.† (source)
- If they come back, she and Trace will get a condo or something.† (source)
- He goes with the Black Rabbit and leaves no trace behind.† (source)
- He hands me the map and my fingers trace our deliveries, stitching city to city.† (source)
- Then she traced a five-pointed star on Stevie Rae's forehead.† (source)
- "Whoa, whoa," Liam said, all traces of anger gone.† (source)
- I'd sit in a desk next to her and slowly trace the curves with my fingertips.† (source)
- I'd see a little trace of a smile, or I'd pick up on a slight change in tone.† (source)
- He mentioned an Eddisian mother in the forged court records to explain his dark coloring and any trace of an accent that he couldn't hide, and then he bragged about his ability to perform some outstanding feat that would have to come to my attention.† (source)
- "Exams," the girl said, her voice a trace uneasy.† (source)
- Dora wants to know if I traced the cats.† (source)
- He walked through the house and had a look at the roofless barn, amused at how little trace remained of their ten years' residence.† (source)
- He had no trace of lameness, and his speed was honed.† (source)
- His personal trailer had no visible family photos or knickknacks; at a moment's notice he could leave without a trace.† (source)
- My finger traces up to Sarah.† (source)
- The exciting features we expect from today's coasters--loops, a corkscrew track, and stability--can be traced back to this first steel coaster.† (source)
- I traced it with my finger Christopher Watson, aged thirteen.† (source)
- Searched for trace?" he asked.† (source)
- That night, when the cabbage dish was served, we could actually see the traces of precious oil floating in the sauce!† (source)
- And they roused him in the middle of the night with flashlights and made him trace sleepy orbits of the Berkeley Flats, half awake at the wheel, searching for parking spots where they wouldn't find him before morning.† (source)
- I edged closer, imagining what it would be like to trace the line of her ear with my clawed finger, smelling her hair.† (source)
- Back in my office, I started to trace them.† (source)
- My fingers traced the route to the old castle and on to the menagerie.† (source)
- Or tracing letters in the dirt with a stick.† (source)
- I trace the line of the scar by her hair.† (source)
- They put out the fire and hid all traces of it.† (source)
- A quick assessment of the nearby seas bore no trace of Magwich's passage.† (source)
- How shall I attend that speech, Mother, how shall I trace that wave?† (source)
- There was no trace of anything light or playful in his voice.† (source)
- I was seeing in it the first traces of fear, or something worse and deeper than fear.† (source)
- She greeted him with a strong handshake that showed no trace of shyness.† (source)
- 'It is true,' Milo exclaimed with a strong trace of old hauteur.† (source)
- We spent hours practicing them, tracing the strokes with our fingers on each other's palms.† (source)
- If you get lost, immediately trace your steps backward.† (source)
- A single tear escaped the corner of Vlad's eye and traced a line down his cheek, before falling to the floor with all of his hopes for the future.† (source)
- "Hey," she replied, still tracing the lipstick across her lower lip.† (source)
- There was no trace of what had happened.† (source)
- As a result, she disappeared from his life without a trace.† (source)
- His thumb starts to trace patterns on my wrist, and I can feel how warm and dry his skin is.† (source)
- She seemed serious, no trace of humor in her face.† (source)
- She traced a line on the map.† (source)
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You go to Trace Middle, right?
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trace = a name
- This one was stolen from Trace Middle School earlier this afternoon, shortly after classes let out. (source)
- "We don't appreciate sarcasm here at Trace Middle," said Miss Hennepin. (source)
- Ironically, Garrett's mother was a guidance counselor at Trace Middle. (source)
- Garrett was the king of phony farts at Trace Middle. (source)
- Beatrice was pedaling the bicycle she'd taken from the rack at Trace Middle. (source)
- He preferred to read comics and mystery books on the morning ride to Trace Middle. (source)
- "I'm not scared," Roy said, "and I don't want to drop out of Trace Middle." (source)
- Apparently Dana had three older brothers, none of whom was remembered fondly at Trace Middle. (source)
- "I don't know anyone who doesn't go to Trace," Garrett said. (source)
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- But Dana was nowhere to be seen at Trace Middle. (source)
- Later his father put Roy's bicycle in the trunk of his car and drove Roy to Trace Middle. (source)
- Is he a student here at Trace Middle? (source)
- 99 If Roy told his parents about the Dana situation, they might be alarmed enough to withdraw him from Trace Middle. (source)
- Roy was an old pro at being the new kid; Trace Middle was the sixth school he had attended since he'd started going to school. (source)
- So when the homeroom teacher at Trace Middle asked the new kid where he was from, he stood up and proudly said Bozeman, Montana. (source)
- As the guidance counselor at Trace Middle School, Garrett's mother was notified whenever a student got into trouble with the law. (source)
- She was saying that Trace Middle had decided not to take disciplinary action against Dana Matherson because of his injuries. (source)
- She was the vice-principal of Trace Middle, and it was in her dim office cubicle that Roy now sat, awaiting justice. (source)
- The story identified him only as a student at Trace Middle and said that the police considered him a suspect in several recent vandalisms. (source)
- The longer Dana had to stay away so his nose could recover from Roy's punch, the nastier he would be when he finally returned to Trace Middle. (source)
- None of the other Trace Middle kids had arrived yet, so Roy ran to Beatrice's house and waited on the front sidewalk. (source)
- NBC and CBS sent film crews to Trace Middle School to meet with the student protesters, as well as with faculty members. (source)
- The true reason that Garrett had called was, of course, to find out what had happened to Dana Matherson at Trace Middle. (source)
- Trace Middle School didn't have the world's strictest dress code, but Roy was pretty sure that some sort of footwear was required. (source)
- The kids from Trace Middle stirred restlessly and looked toward Beatrice and Roy, who no longer had much of a plan. (source)
- "Except he didn't get on the bus, and he's not here at school," Roy said, "so I figured he must not go to Trace." (source)
- The paramedics had checked him out on the golf course, and the school nurse at Trace Middle had spent forty-five minutes "observing" him for signs of a possible concussion. (source)
- Classes at Graham High started fifty-five minutes earlier than the classes at Trace; the high school kids were off the streets long before the middle school buses finished their routes. (source)
- She had left Dana Matherson stripped down to his underpants and trussed to the flagpole in front of the administration building at Trace Middle School. (source)
- He got another pleasant surprise when a van from the Trace Middle School Athletic Department rolled up and Beatrice's soccer teammates piled out, some of them carrying posters. (source)
- He suspected she had another motive for pestering the vice-principal–she was eager to resume her early-morning yoga sessions at the community college, which she couldn't attend as long as she was driving Roy to Trace Middle. (source)
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She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep:
Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' legs;
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers;
The traces, of the smallest spider's web; (source)traces = harnesses
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