Example sentences for: traceable

How can you use “traceable” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Our most basic expressions for transportation are traceable to horse imagery.

  • For example, puddle-jumper is defined as RAF (1942) slang for a small communications aircraft; that might be coincidence, but it surely is of American origin, traceable back to the gear in which Uncle Don was wont to arrive for his radio program on rainy days in the early 1930s.

  • The resulting set of annotations will be stronger because every gene has traceable evidence that is available in the database and is annotated according to a standard set of rules.

  • Those who would derive the expression directly from the peg tankard sense are thus not correct, for, while that attribution might have been the original source, the expression itself is traceable only to a metaphor once removed from the tankard.

  • This follows a trend in Bennett's thinking traceable to at least 1997, when he told a gathering of his fellow conservatives that "these are times in which conservatives are going to have to face the fact that there is some good news on the landscape.


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