Sentence examples for faint footprints from inspiring English sources

Apart from a few faint footprints, this is the only evidence of habitation by badgers.

They can follow faint footprints across long, thirsty distances and instantly intuit when someone has trespassed on their land.

And yet: For all its charms, the island is uninhabited, and the faint footprints scattered on its beaches turn without exception to the sea.

Unlike the conductors who were famous in life but left only faint footprints, Bernstein seems assured of his place in the collective memory.

In this sense they are indeed faint footprints, but not true vestiges in the proper evolutionary sense.

As for signs of the Sixth Dalai Lama himself, there is a small wooden box with a stone inside that has a faint footprint — supposedly his, even though he was taken from this area before he turned 3.

She plucks her leather jacket up off the sofa and walks across the beige-and-white Chinese carpet, leaving faint gray footprints on the plush surface which Carolita, the cleaning lady, will have to spend hours on her hands and knees scrubbing to remove.

In either case, you have a hard time explaining why such a memorable figure left so faint a footprint on the sands of his own time.

"Aid groups alone are not going to be able to lift Cambodians out of poverty," he said, "but I wanted to demonstrate that it is possible to do business here in a way that is profitable, and at the same time benefits the local community and leaves as faint a footprint as possible on the environment".

They remembered that Torres left the faintest of footprints next to Cynthia Woodhead, who pushed herself so hard in training she would throw up; Tracy Caulkins, who set world records at practice; and Mary Meagher, who could swim for hours at a brisk pace, with every butterfly stroke perfect.

They have a light footprint.