Example sentences for: traceable

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

  • It is certainly the ambition of the biologically oriented majority of psychiatrists to produce a manual of mental disorders which, as the saying goes, "carves nature at its joints"--one which lists diseases that are each traceable to a unique, identifiable malfunction in the brain.

  • 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.

  • Attributable costs are the postal costs causally traceable to mail.

  • It is perhaps unfair to review the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase & Allusion alongside the Brewer's Twentieth Century: despite the similarity of the titles, the former is a slighter work; also, it consists largely of quotations and the titles of books, plays, films, and other written works traceable to them (and vice versa).

  • Rather, it was because the reworked, old meat was being added into new product throughout the day instead of to a single easily traceable lot at the beginning of the day.


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