How to Use without a trace in a Sentence

without a trace

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  • The 23-year-old then claimed the object vanished without a trace.
    — Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Other must-reads A wife vanished without a trace 10 months ago.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • On sale in a stick-and-bottle set, the SPF 40 melts into all skin tones without a trace and also works as a makeup primer.
    — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 9 July 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
  • Eleven years ago, her fiancé Josh (Ashley Walters), the love of her life, vanished without a trace.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Jan. 2025
  • For more than 30 years, the loot remained missing, having vanished without a trace.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The weightless gel, which sinks into all skin tones without a trace, also has a summery, sea-salt fragrance.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 9 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • Her father, Lord Spenser, was accused of their murder and disappeared without a trace.
    — Bailey Seybolt, People.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The navy hoped the corpses would disappear without a trace, but in at least 65 cases bodies washed onto beaches in Argentina and Uruguay.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • There were so many incredibly popular artists in the past who have disappeared without a trace beneath the waves.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 18 May 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
  • Now, with digital files, they can be shared without a trace, if done smartly, explains 35-year-old Felix Sandalov, who now lives in exile in Berlin.
    — Michele Kelemen, NPR, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The camp’s tents can be dismantled and removed without a trace, making your stay there a net-zero experience.
    — Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Thanks to its mostly oil-phase composition, the cream feels luxurious going on but melts in without a trace.
    — Annie Blackman, Allure, 5 May 2025
  • The other vanished without a trace, leaving her husband a murder suspect.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The girls' father, an Irish bartender whom Gilda met soon after her arrival on Nantucket, headed back to Ireland without a trace when the girls were young.
    — Heller McAlpin, NPR, 22 May 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

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