How to Use without a trace in a Sentence

without a trace

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  • Even without a trace of makeup, Vo's skin is as smooth and shiny as, well, a dumpling.
    Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The whole affair seemed destined to melt without a trace.
    Jesse Barron, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • To the outside world, the Frank family appeared to have vanished without a trace.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2023
  • Stranded in the cold, all 129 men aboard perished, and the wooden ships disappeared without a trace.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2024
  • For more than 30 years, the loot remained missing, having vanished without a trace.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Most of those were unscripted, and the vast majority of them vanished without a trace.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 May 2023
  • And most important: How could a boatload of Haitians disappear without a trace?
    CBS News, 13 June 2022
  • On June 27 of that year, 5-year-old Devan Duniver disappeared from her apartment without a trace.
    Kyler Alvord, PEOPLE.com, 6 May 2022
  • But Ohtani playfully consoles him, without a trace of frustration on his face.
    Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
  • His most recent murder charge was for the disappearance and death of Isabel Celis, who disappeared from her room without a trace in 2012.
    Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
  • A day later, Roque, a U.S. citizen, had disappeared without a trace.
    Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Amid the never-ending night, eight men who operate a research station in a remote town vanish without a trace.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2024
  • A number of women who worked for Ball disappeared without a trace, according to reports.
    Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021
  • There her father died of starvation and her brother disappeared without a trace.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Texas mom Diana Simone couldn't stop thinking about how a kidnapper snatched Amber and escaped without a trace.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the pigeon parents exit the balcony without a trace, but the young cuckoo returns, as if searching for his foster parents or his home.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2023
  • They were struck by an interview with a male anchor who recalled that world’s rampant sexism without a trace of repentance.
    Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In the short, Malone happens upon a lost child with blonde hair and blue eyes, who later disappears into the environment without a trace.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Even though trillions of neutrinos enter your body every second, the vast majority of them pass through without a trace.
    Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 29 June 2023
  • Margot and Lucy have become the closest of friends, but by the middle of their sophomore year, one of the fraternity boys from the house next door has been brutally murdered… and Lucy Sharpe is missing without a trace.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The series examines her motivation for upheaval and the events that led to her disappearance without a trace?
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The Baby Oil has a nostalgic, powdery baby oil scent that’s not as greasy or slippery as traditional baby oil, and melts into the skin without a trace.
    elle.com, 16 May 2023
  • But something insidious is haunting the town and and her only native co-worker has disappeared without a trace.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 May 2022
  • And when one of those eleven people (and his dog) go missing without a trace, finger-pointing is inevitable, especially when everyone seems to hate each other to begin with.
    Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
  • And those big support ships may, one day, just disappear without a trace, swallowed up in the vast, lonely sea, leaving their charges—often smaller, cheaper and less-seaworthy—to their own devices.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 7 May 2022
  • Just one year later, Ignatova disappeared without a trace, and authorities in Europe and the United States have tried to catch her ever since.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • But in late January 2023, Chavez-Montoya went from living this life of predictability to simply vanishing without a trace.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Time will tell if its high-octane, fast-burning formula, converting frightening crime into a weekly thrill ride, is enough to keep it from vanishing, well, without a trace.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The movie is being promoted as a cinematic unicorn, an original sci-fi story without a trace of existing IP.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Converse was again a cult darling, and now her disappearance offered an irresistible logline: the female Dylan who wrote a handful of masterpieces and vanished without a trace.
    Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023

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