traces

Idioms and Phrases

see kick over the traces .

Example Sentences

Miller traces his irreverent and subversive streak to a psychedelic experience during the particularly sweltering summer of 1991.

From The Daily Beast

The congressman traces his belief in Santa Claus back 40 years, when he was a student going to college “on the GI Bill.”

From The Daily Beast

By the next day, more than 500 posts, and all traces of Wonderland, had been deleted.

From The Daily Beast

He traces the history of ideas with skill and care, and he avoids the smug certainty of many contemporary science writers.

From The Daily Beast

The film traces the legacy of the Abiola family, particularly Hafsat Abiola, the eldest daughter of Kudirat and MKO.

From The Daily Beast

As his eye became accustomed to the gloom, David Arden saw traces of gilding on the walls.

From Project Gutenberg

On May 13 Polavieja arrived in Barcelona physically broken, half blind, and with evident traces of a disordered liver.

From Project Gutenberg

She has been much influenced by Gainsborough, Lawrence, and Reynolds, traces of their manner being evident in her work.

From Project Gutenberg

With less intelligent children traces of this tendency to take pictorial representation for reality may appear as late as four.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet I think if we observe closely we shall detect traces of a spontaneous impulse towards self-adornment.

From Project Gutenberg