trace
noun
a surviving mark, sign, or evidence of the former existence, influence, or action of some agent or event; vestige.
Example Sentences
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Though the human race and its works disappear tracelessly by time or bomb, the sun does not falter in its course; the stars keep their invariable vigil.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
But men who think in this way are amiable visionaries; and the idea of a native land will still flourish when the dust of their bones will have vanished tracelessly in the winds.
From The Jewish State by Louis Lipsky
In the meanwhile, the one fact was clear--that the child had disappeared tracelessly, and so remained.
From Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner
The exact instant at which our group returned to the ashram, the clouds and rain passed away tracelessly.
From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
For a moment she might be vexed with him that he had enveloped himself in mystery towards her, and had not even told her his name; this fleeting sensation of anger soon passed tracelessly away.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
