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How to use tracker in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun

Tracker means a person employed to follow and monitor a political rival. Example: “At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on.”

Examples of tracker by meaning

nounA person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.

  • At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on.2022 December 17, Judith Newman, “John Fetterman’s TikTok Whisperer”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 24 Dec...

nounAn Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.

  • The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 6

nounA type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.

  • Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.2008, Karen Collins, Game sound
  • At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music

nounA musician who writes music in a tracker.

  • There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.1999, Adrian Dunn, “Re: Using a scanned picture in your demo”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

nounAn album with the specified number of tracks.

  • "Typical" is the best song on this nine-tracker, and ironically, the record itself is good, but typical.1985, Maximum Rocknroll, number 24

More sentences with tracker

  • Professional hunters and trackers die too, in the pursuit of dangerous animals every year.2026 April 21, Cal Flyn, “On the trail with the hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa’s wildlife”, in The Guardian. From the entry quarry
  • It means that you're losing sleep because you're worried that your sleep tracker is judging you.[2025 September 13, Tim Harford, “The remorseless rule of my fitness tracker”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial…. From the entry orthosomnia
  • Dynamic image pre-distortions and display adaptations—with help from an eye tracker—could provide for proper perspective and focus.2011, Rolf R. Hainich, Oliver Bimber, “Additional Requirements”, in Displays: Fundamentals & Applications, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press…. From the entry pre-distortion
  • The pianolist watches the music roll pass over the tracker bar.2009, Brian Dolan, Inventing Entertainment: The Player Piano and the Origins of an American Music Industry. From the entry pianolist
  • The radiation trackers clipped to our protective overalls let off soft cheeps, their frequency varying as radioactivity levels changed around us.December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian. From the entry cheep
  • Could you file a bug at on the issue tracker with a minimum reproduction so that we can investigate?2020, Joe Tsai, “[Bug?] Repeated imported enum cause panic in golang”, in protobuf mailing list. From the entry reproduction
  • The Royce Leather wireless Bluetooth wallet and GPS tracker is thin enough to fit in a credit-card slot.2016 June 19, Gannett, “Lost and found: Tracking devices locate belongings in seconds”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 136, number 276…. From the entry credit-card slot
  • When Davey grasped spears and wommera it was impossible to recognize in this painted savage the alert, nattily dressed tracker.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 77. From the entry nattily
  • Black Matters was one of many fake activist groups, such as Blacktivist and the police brutality tracker DoNotShoot.us, created to mimic and influence American protesters.2017 November 2, Micah White, “I started Occupy Wall Street. Russia tried to co-opt me”, in The Guardian. From the entry front group
  • Raven Allen — Originally from the Zone, he becomes a member of the Psi:Ko when he is kidnapped with his brothers by trackers.2013, Natsuya Uesugi, grydscaen, page 9. From the entry raven
  • Eventually we saddled the team; then Slippery, with a snort, started pig-rooting and bolted amongst the trees, with the trackers hanging on to him.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 13. From the entry pigroot
  • “Mirror Image” is about Atalanta the daughter of Poseidon (like Percy), who is a skilled tracker, a good bowswoman and who loves the hunt (like Atalanta from Greek mythology).2017, Amanda Potter, ““Atlanta Just Married”: A Case Study in Greek Mythology-Based Fan Fiction”, in Lisa Maurice, editor, Rewriting the…. From the entry bowswoman
  • Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any source code that showed how to read the values to construct a VU meter from a tracker replay routine.1991, Cybernetworx, “VU meters”, in comp.sys.amiga.programmer (Usenet). From the entry VU meter
  • It was planned that the sick men were to crawl over and simultaneously seize the fire-arms and bash us with them while the women flung themselves upon the trackers.1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 141. From the entry bash

Meaning of tracker

  1. noun A person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.
  2. noun An Indigenous Australian employed by the law to track down fugitives and missing persons.
  3. noun In an organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

Full definition of tracker

Questions about tracker in a sentence

How do you use tracker in a sentence?
Tracker is used as a noun. For example: “At most events there was a tracker: a guy from the Oz team who monitored the goings-on.”
What is a short sentence with tracker?
“The pianolist watches the music roll pass over the tracker bar.”
What does tracker mean?
Tracker means a person employed to follow and monitor a political rival.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tracker (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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