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Example sentences for "track"

Lexicographically close words:
trachyte; trachytes; trachytic; tracing; tracings; trackage; tracked; tracker; trackers; tracking
  1. Then I took my course from the stars and found that I had been going just opposite to the direction I should be making, but I could not go back across the track there.

  2. This railroad is double-tracked and rock-ballasted and the other track is on your side.

  3. She was all the time buying new ornaments or having her old ones reset and the only person who kept track of her possessions was Virginie Dupont.

  4. After that he lost track of her as he was busy with the branch line train which left at eight-forty-five and was the last one up that night.

  5. Likely it was only the track of a wild animal,--a leaping caribou that cut deep into the drifts, or perhaps a bear, tardy in hibernating.

  6. Crawling, creeping, groping from track to track would wear him out quickly.

  7. Human inhabitants of the North are not so many but that they keep good track of one another's business.

  8. Also I will chase down Rutheford, and track him all over the world until I find him, and make him suffer for all he has done!

  9. Because the snow had been firm in this part of Bill's journey, his track was not so deep and the drifting snow had almost completely filled it.

  10. In a few places the track was entirely obscured; always there were merely dim indentations.

  11. Bill felt wholly able to follow the broad snowshoe track the half-mile farther into town.

  12. We haven't got to back-track him more than a hundred yards at most.

  13. Ever Virginia kept watch for a track that was not an animal track, a blaze on a tree that was not made by the teeth of a porcupine or grizzly, a charred cook rack over the ashes of a fire.

  14. Eaton had not counted the shots at him any better than he had kept track of his own firing; but he knew now that the other two must have emptied their magazines as well as he.

  15. The new train started, and now the track followed the Mississippi River.

  16. Shall we all go back to the observation car and see if there's a walk down the track or whether it's snowed over?

  17. Two or three miles back upon the road, before they had made their turn to the south, Eaton had lost for a few moments the track of the car they had been following.

  18. For the first six or seven miles the journey lay through the dense fir and pine forest, the track winding its way along the mountain-side.

  19. While he was thus reflecting, the clatter of hoofs sounded on the track behind him, and Wicklow rode up, stopping for a moment as he passed.

  20. Alone in the track of these frantic and bewildered beasts, to what madness might she not be driven!

  21. Besides, your friend the sheriff will probably remember the bear when he remembers anything, and try to get on its track again.

  22. This act called me back to reason, or rather gave my soul opportunity to roam into a new track equally wild.

  23. I pursued the track which I had formerly taken, and entered High Street after nightfall.

  24. Miller, then district attorney, now practicing law at Allenreed, Texas, was at the Turkey Track Ranch.

  25. On the north side of Bent's Creek, southwest of the buildings, was a hill, north of which the land was smoother and afterwards a part of the Turkey Track Ranch pasture.

  26. The Turkey Track outfit tried to escape the inevitable by buying out "nester" who came into the country in the late 80's, and in this way held all the land, save mine at Abode Walls.

  27. When Patten, Price & Hyde, the Kansas cattlemen, bought the Turkey Track range and stock, I sold my place at Abode Walls to them.

  28. Much ill feeling had grown up between the settlers and the cow outfits, especially the Turkey Track people who had opposed the making of a new county.

  29. The election was bitterly contested, the Turkey Track outfit taking an active part, to control the results.

  30. The Turkey Track sold out to a Kansas company, who also bought my place at Abode Walls.

  31. He isn't required to register there, but if he did you'd be able to track him down eventually.

  32. But he's trying to track down his brother, who jumped ship nine years back.

  33. It's the only way we can keep track of our chronological ages when we're on board ship.

  34. Whilst he was looking about for some Track or Path-way that might be worn in any Part of it, he saw an huge Lion crouched under the Side of it, who kept his Eye upon him in the same Posture as when he watches for his Prey.

  35. Tis true he runs into a Flat of Thought, sometimes for a Hundred Lines together, but tis when he is got into a Track of Scripture .

  36. That the Track or Way of such Comets as have been well observ'd, but not hitherto expressed in any Globe, be carefully delineated in this.

  37. One was the smooth and level way of patronage; the other a rough up-hill track for men who struggled in the service of the people.

  38. I could see her first pass by, and the Dogs some time afterwards unravelling the whole Track she had made, and following her thro' all her Doubles.

  39. The misfortune is a great one, but I agree with you that we are on the track of the criminals.

  40. A towel on which I have found one of those marks which a razor leaves when it is wiped--and one only--has put me on the track of this fact.

  41. I didn't make the journey to Paris for the King of Prussia; we are right on the track of this rogue of a Guespin.

  42. Already justice has begun its work; two of the criminals are in its power, and we are on the track of their accomplices.

  43. Perhaps it was a simple matter of instinct with him, like that which impels the hunting hound on the track of his game.

  44. I am as thankful that I have been the means of saving you, as you can be that I was almost miraculously enabled to follow your track so successfully.

  45. At first the whole thing seemed hopeless; now that I am fairly on the track and know what I have to do, I shall soon be all right again.

  46. As soon as he did so, Dominique motioned to the two boatmen to do the same, and then went back along the track until he met Frank's party.

  47. One said to the other: "My, see this track of empire!

  48. But when the track is improved, the horse with aptitude for speed will soon distance the old cockleburred scrub, who would, if he could talk, very likely insist there is something wrong with our civilization, and become a socialist.

  49. I assume that a return of six percent would be ample on capital, let us say, to construct an additional track for the Pennsylvania Railroad between New York and Philadelphia.

  50. Equal opportunity in a foot race is secured when the start is even, the track kept clear and no one is permitted to foul his neighbor.

  51. I want you to keep track of this man day and night.

  52. Ain't I on the track of those counterfeits?

  53. But his vernacular savored so hopelessly of the track and stall that he had been able to acquire no mastery over the art of marine invective.

  54. And that strip of level," he continued, pointing to a thinly timbered bit, "will hold a mile track nicely.

  55. I lost him in the marshes, got on his track again near Bread Fruit Wood, and brought him down with an arrow in Firefly Grove.

  56. We were driven out of our course, my lady; I fear far from the track of commerce.

  57. He walked for fully two miles along the track by which they most often came.

  58. We are far, far beyond the ordinary track of ships; ships seldom, if ever, come this way, unless driven out of their course by stress of weather.

  59. The exploring party kept to the extreme edge of the bush after penetrating and searching hither and thither for a time, but neither track nor trail of savages could they find.

  60. Now and then a jockey rode his horse far off on the track and came back between the false starts; now and then one kept stubbornly behind the rest and would not start with them.

  61. The day was beautiful; the long heat had burned itself out, and there was a clear sparkle in the sunshine, which seemed blown across the wide space within the loop of the track by the delicate breeze.

  62. The light also showed the track of a tiger up to the bench, thence to the spot in the ditch where the man was lying, and straight across the high road into another orchard.

  63. The forest through which this track leads is a mass of dwarfed trees, of palms, shrubs, and creepers.

  64. I will have some one on the look-out when you come again, and then set Babette on the watch; she shall track him up to the den of his treachery.

  65. The arrival of the cutter had been duly notified to the widow Vandersloosh, before she had dropped her anchor, and in pursuance with her resolution she immediately dispatched Babette to track Mr Vanslyperken, and watch his motions.

  66. The woodman recently found a track leading up from the site of the mill to the rocky height, which emerged upon the present Wishing-Gate road.

  67. Many of these homesteads have been turned into houses for the wealthy, and great alterations have taken place; but a track the whole way may still be made out, though hidden in places by private drives and occupation roads.

  68. Even now the moon is forth again in all her splendor; and were my father's spies to track thee!

  69. I never would dare present it for payment, for you know that the emperor keeps spies with a hundred eyes to track his employes.

  70. Dis be de track ob Golah," said the Krooman to Harry, after he had examined it.

  71. On taking the back track to regain the beach, they still observed caution,--though perhaps not to such a degree as when approaching the camp.

  72. It proved that Golah, although going off southward, must have turned back again, and was now not far off, hovering about the track he believed his enemies would be likely to take.

  73. Through the centre of this saddle of sand, and transversely, the camel had carried Bill; and over the same track the three midshipmen had gone in search of him.

  74. The price you'd get for those three hobbledehoys would keep us comfortable for the balance of our lives; and we need never track the Devil's Desert again.

  75. At sunset he had contrived to conceal himself among the barley sheaves until his masters were out of sight, when he had started off on the track taken by the Arab merchants.

  76. It wasn't a stylish turnout--I had seen farmers driving along the railroad-track in rigs like it, and I was surprised at dad for keeping such a layout.


  77. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "track" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.