tracks

/ (træks) /


pl n
  1. (sometimes singular) marks, such as footprints, tyre impressions, etc, left by someone or something that has passed

  2. in one's tracks on the very spot where one is standing (esp in the phrase stop in one's tracks)

  1. make tracks to leave or depart

  2. make tracks for to go or head towards

  3. the wrong side of the tracks the unfashionable or poor district or stratum of a community

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How to use tracks in a sentence

  • In the nine differently colored circular tracks, rolled little globes representing the planets.

    Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown Fyfe
  • These cars run along on tracks through streets in which round stones are set in, side by side.

  • Nothing, at least, that I could see except faint tracks leading away from the spot.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • I swung my horse around in his tracks and raced him back to the poplars, knowing what I would find, and yet refusing to believe.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • There were infinite possibilities for "the greaser" to pocket a goodly share of the profits, and "cover up his tracks."

    Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton