How to Use untraceable in a Sentence

untraceable

adjective
  • These days, the 27-year-old rhymes with a drawl untraceable to any region.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Of course, the rental company is a fake and will make off with the untraceable money in a flash.
    Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Nathaniel Berhow used an untraceable ghost gun for the attack.
    Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The idea is to thwart thieves who know the owner’s passcode and hope to quickly make the device untraceable.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The power is untraceable as it is made up of a mix of available fuels.
    Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 28 July 2024
  • Money sent to strangers in this way is untraceable, and once it is sent, there's no getting it back.
    USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Money spent on the sport is untraceable in much of Latin America.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • It had long been considered untraceable — or even destroyed in the war.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Now untraceable, his monument to New York is as vast as one cares to imagine.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • The use of untraceable ghost guns is on the rise in metropolitan areas throughout the state.
    Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2022
  • But the luxury of quiet can’t be sustained, and the outside world inevitably creeps in through sirens and untraceable screams.
    Tavi Gevinson, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Ghost guns are untraceable firearms that can be bought online and assembled at home.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • The bug had been virtually untraceable since the 1950s.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
  • He was released on a bond and later deemed untraceable; Mansour was sentenced to death.
    Preeti Jha, CNN, 17 Aug. 2020
  • New law: The city of Oakland banned the sale and possession of ghost guns, largely untraceable firearms suspected in crimes.
    Gwendolyn Wu, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But the list of 24 untraceable items, Dimri said, is imperfect.
    Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Through PACs, donors once could shuffle their money until the trail of campaign cash was untraceable.
    al, 11 May 2022
  • Concerns about the untraceable guns prompted San Diego police to create a special team to disrupt the fast spread.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • On Tuesday, Hong Kong recorded its first untraceable local case in over three months.
    Grady McGregor, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2022
  • His chat app, called Ricochet, builds on a feature of the anonymity software Tor that’s rendered sites on the dark web untraceable and anonymous for years.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2017
  • The email goes on to give instructions about how to make an untraceable payment and the sender’s contact information.
    cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The 55-year-old speaks in a faint, untraceable accent that hints at her peripatetic upbringing.
    Meredith Blake Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2022
  • The bill also includes efforts to limit third-party sales of guns and to stop the distribution of untraceable firearms.
    Editors, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • In that way, Jusick helped pioneer how to create a legal but untraceable weapon, that had the bonus of being preferred by soldiers the world over.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
  • There are two types of firearms that House Bill 2005 would address: undetectable firearms and untraceable firearms that lack a serial number.
    Ben Botkin, oregonlive, 20 Mar. 2023
  • According to the state, the percent of cases that can’t be traced to a specific source is at an all-time high, with 60% of recent cases being untraceable.
    oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Kyle said building or obtaining the untraceable ghost guns and parts like auto sears is likely to get easier in the near future.
    Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Young people are getting their hands on largely untraceable guns with the ease of ordering school supplies.
    Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • Much of the outside spending, which was used to bolster or attack candidates, came in the form of dark money untraceable to its original sources.
    Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024
  • The terrorist plot to steal $640 million in untraceable bonds from the Nakatomi Tower's basement has nothing to do with Christmas.
    David Faris, The Week, 25 Dec. 2022

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