Example sentences for: trails

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

  • El Yunque (the Caribbean National Forest), southeast of San Juan, is crisscrossed by numerous trails.

  • This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)

  • A majority of economists believes that during a severe depression--which certainly doesn't describe America right now--it's important to pay people to do make-work (digging ditches or restoring hiking trails will also do).

  • A piece trails Vice President Al Gore on his quest to raise $55 million by the 2000 convention.

  • s because they are warm and sunny, and the trails are dry after the monsoon. D


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