The phrase "away without a trace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something disappearing completely, leaving no evidence or indication of their presence.
Example: "After the storm, the boat was gone, swept away without a trace."
Alternatives: "vanished without a sign" or "disappeared without a clue.".
Yet "Away," without a trace of sappiness, finally lets its unforgiving world deliver redemption and grace.
In satellite images, Natori and nearby Yuriage, just south of the battered city of Sendai, seem to have been swept away without a trace, as if a giant razor had shaved the earth clean.
The slightest wind made me afraid that the house, right at the edge of the ocean, would be carried away without a trace of anything save my thinned wallet.
Although anchored by 12 iron stanchions laboriously grouted into exceptionally hard red rock, it lasted only from 1699 to 1703, when it was swept away without a trace in a storm of exceptional severity; its designer and builder, in the lighthouse at the time, perished with it.
Every tune is reworked from scratch: where there was a vamp in a piano's bass clef, it has been transferred to a higher register on a different instrument and reharmonized; where there was a dominant rhythm, like the bossa nova beat in Horace Silver's "Song for My Father," it's been wiped away without a trace.
Bits of themes appear and are decisively aborted; pungent harmonies shimmer and drift away without a trace; almost as soon as they begin, pugnacious outbursts of grating chords get counter-punched cold: you never know what is going to happen next.
In Mr. Boehler's performance, with lines like "And when a man's O.K.,/I know it a mile away," sung without a trace of wink-wink irony, it emerged as an ode about "gaydar," as Mr. Blier said, the way gay people "sniff out which team another person plays on".
Brashear is still sidelined with a concussion, and Worrell skated away without any trace of pain.
Months earlier, meticulous thieves had entered the Left Bank apartment of Picasso's granddaughter and cut away the works, leaving without a trace.
During one of those visits, Mr. Kim vowed that if war broke out, his troops would "blow away the bastion of aggression without a trace," K.C.N.A. reported Saturday.
And as if all that weren't enough to give the game away, "Marie Christine" is a tragedy without a trace of Hammersteinian uplift.
