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How to use tracing in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun

Tracing means the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper. Example: “Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.”

More sentences with tracing

  • Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.From the entry anterograde
  • She was working on Wúràọlá’s eyes, tracing a line towards her lateral canthus.2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 293. From the entry lateral canthus
  • Alternatively, place a sheet of tracing paper between the PUL and the presser foot.2023, The Complete Manual of Sewing: 120 Visual Lessons for Beginners, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry pul
  • Here the original drawing is shown in grey and the infilled tracing in black.2011, Andrew Haslam, Lettering: A Reference Manual of Techniques. From the entry infill
  • An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs.2006, Felix Lance Falkon, Gay Art: A Historic Collection, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry vanilla
  • "Have you got an oojamaflip for tracing system calls that you could use?"2001 January 31, Richard, “Re: Ingres II, unable to run mklicense”, in comp.databases.ingres (Usenet). From the entry oojamaflip
  • Akras touched her scarred cheeks, tracing the hard ridges of deliberately mishealed flesh.1992, Cheryl J. Franklin, The Inquisitor, page 424. From the entry misheal
  • I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage. From the entry pop
  • Tracing their twentieth century origins back to Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, expansivists were energized by FDR's leadership.1989, William F. Grover, The President as Prisoner, page 8. From the entry expansivist
  • Six sheets of fine tracing paper, each covered with signs and drawings, were disclosed.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards…. From the entry tracing paper
  • When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry rot
  • Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr.2009 August 23, Alexander Star, “Richard Poirier: A Man of Good Reading”, in New York Times. From the entry twisting
  • To mend a sandal, I removed the damaged parts, and knitted up the rest with the metal tracing spatula.2009, Omi Hatashin, Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972, page 61. From the entry knit up
  • Debugging facilities are few but powerful: snapshots, tracing, and autopsy.1977, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Washington State University. Computer Science Dept, Proceedings of Conference on Computers in…. From the entry autopsy
  • Without varying the adjustment of the phrenograph take a tracing while repeatedly interrupting the respiration by holding the nostrils.1904, Winfield Scott Hall, A Manual of Experimental Physiology for Students of Medicine. From the entry phrenograph
  • The digital contact tracing service, which crippled businesses and forced millions of workers into quarantine, will stop working on April 27 for lack of use.2023 March 29, “‘Pingdemic’ Covid app to be locked down forever”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 2. From the entry pingdemic
  • Besides tracing the girl, the court also expressed concern, saying there should be no sympathy shown towards the accused booked under the Pocso Act.2022 April 24, “Find the minor who eloped, implement Pocso strictly: Gujarat HC”, in The Times of India. From the entry POCSO
  • Using the latest technology, and with the dogged determination of our testing and tracing scheme, we've successfully identified the person in question.2021 March 5, Matt Hancock, quotee, “Mystery person with Brazil variant found thanks to dogged determination, says Matt Hancock”, in The…. From the entry dogged
  • In tracing the relationships between Western Modernism and the arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, the curators took a universalist approach.2007 January 19, Grace Glueck, “Art in Review”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022. From the entry Americas
  • In tracing the development of the discipline in twentieth century Canada, it became evident that demography had progressed through a number of periods.2001, Sylvia T. Wargon, “Connections: Demography and Sociology in Twentieth Century Canada”, in The Canadian Journal of Sociology, volume…. From the entry two solitudes
  • Hildebrandt is certainly right in maintaining that all dream-images could be explained genetically, if we spent sufficient time and concentration on tracing their origin.1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, I.b. From the entry genetically
  • In the trousers-and-jacket we evidently have a garment of great antiquity, the origin of which I have not yet succeeded in tracing.1993, Erich Brauer, Raphael Patai, The Jews of Kurdistan, page 84. From the entry Aissor
  • AdaRAID supports multiple CPUs running concurrently, Ada data types, features include break points, watchpoints, timing, tracing, stepping, walkbacks, and histories of last n executions.1990, NASA Tech Briefs, page 98. From the entry watchpoint
  • I had to unspin this shimmering construction and move back and forth through the rooms tracing the pattern without getting tangled in it.1970, Mary Richie, A Romantic Education, page 59. From the entry unspin
  • In tracing the history of the cases, it found that a 60-year-old female patient in Taichung's Taiping District Xinguang Borough began experiencing symptoms including fever in mid-August.2018 September 6, M. Chuang, “登革熱再增7病例 中市6例.高市1例 [CDC Confirms Seven New Dengue Fever Cases]”, in Public Television Service, archived from…. From the entry Taiping
  • As a result the guilt stems also from Kafka’s interest in tracing the human reasoning process in great detail up to the point where it fails.2017 May 16, Jerry Stuger, “Kafka and Autism. The Undisclosed Logic Behind Kafka’s Work”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental…. From the entry vantage point
  • There are inter-war bungalows, and they, too, have their parentage, tracing a genealogy to that Indian roadside hostel, the bangalo, the Gujerati meaning simply 'of Bengal'.2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 265. From the entry bangalo
  • Existing methods for beam direction computing in resonators, e.g. iterative ray tracing or generalized ray transfer matrices, are either computationally expensive or rely on overparametrized models of optical elements.2015, Davide Cuccato, Alessandro Saccon, Antonello Ortolan, Alessandro Beghi, “Computing the laser beam path in optical cavities: a…. From the entry overparametrized
  • He found Will on the ale bench outside the Devereux Arms nursing a cup of canary wine, tracing patterns in the dust with the toe of his boot.2011, Jane Feather -, All the Queen's Players, page 353. From the entry ale bench

Meaning of tracing

  1. noun The reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.
  2. noun A record in the form of a graph made by a device such as a seismograph.
  3. noun The process of finding something that is lost by studying evidence.

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Questions about tracing in a sentence

How do you use tracing in a sentence?
Tracing is used as a noun. For example: “Anterograde tracing is a research technique which is used to trace neural connections from their source to their point of termination. The opposite technique is retrograde tracing.”
What is a short sentence with tracing?
“Tracing Emerson’s famous twistings and turnings, Mr.”
What does tracing mean?
Tracing means the reproduction of an image made by copying it through translucent paper.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tracing (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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