How to Use paper trail in a Sentence

paper trail

noun

• They covered up the fraud and were careful not to leave a paper trail.
• If that were the case, there should be a paper trail to confirm it.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• And all those tweets and posts end up being a paper trail.
  — Hazlitt, 16 Dec. 2022
• Because Richard has a paper trail of all the things that happened.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 7 June 2023
• The paper trail between you and the cruise line did not spell out the airfare refund rules.
  — Christopher Elliott, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• There is also a sort of online paper trail that seems to grow each day.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021
• But in 1982, the task force had to rely on a literal paper trail.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• That ball is outta here and there is nothing left but a paper trail!
  — Jackson Weimer, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• Every vote has a paper trail, and paper cannot be hacked.
  — Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
• Oral history was – and still is – a major link to our past, but the paper trail can go cold.
  — USA Today, 17 Oct. 2019
• The paper trail dried up when the consultants left Matrix.
  — Sarah Blaskey, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2022
• Ozier has found the paper trail that might prove the latter to be ambiguous, at best.
  — Rosalind Bentley, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
• Perhaps the biggest problem in Schweikert’s ethics case is the sheer volume and scale of the paper trail against him.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2020
• The only kind of money that leaves no paper trail is paper.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 28 Mar. 2022
• Without a paper trail, there's no way to prove someone asked for their money back.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• There are new voting machines in use that allow for a paper trail.
  — Dylan McGuinness, ExpressNews.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• Paige tends to keep her distance from the other townspeople and only deals with cash to avoid a paper trail.
  — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 17 July 2021
• It’s a paper trail rather than a body that proves mystifying.
  — Laura Marsh, The New Republic, 18 June 2021
• Then Twitter came along and offered a new and treacherous kind of paper trail.
  — Mark Leibovich, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• The painting had been presumed missing since 1949, when the paper trail of its existence went cold.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2021
• Crozier left a limited paper trail, but Smith does a fine job of tracing his life.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2021
• The paper trail suggests that Cherkasov’s path was cleared in advance by Russian enablers and agents already in place.
  — Greg Miller, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2023
• Right now, there are 13 states that don’t even require voting machines to maintain a paper trail.
  — Amrita Khalid, Quartz, 5 Feb. 2020
• The cash arrives in suitcases, plastic bags, even ice cream tubs, observers say, and the paper trail is hard to unwind.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 June 2023
• To most, this paper trail would paint the picture of a serial criminal.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• There was just not a paper trail, or in Clemens’ case, a former trainer accusing him of using PEDs.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
• But Gavankar said the royals were fully aware of exactly what Meghan was going through, and said there was a paper trail to prove it.
  — Emily Dixon, Marie Claire, 18 Mar. 2021
• And there’s no paper trail — it can only be revealed in aggregate.
  — Chris Colin, New York Times, 25 May 2023
• That created a paper trail and legal bone to gnaw on for conference lawyers.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2023
• In the case of Edward Norton and Pocahontas, Gates said the paper trail was the final proof in the familial pudding.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 5 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024