"indelible trace" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe an impression or effect that cannot be erased or removed. For example, "The event left an indelible trace in the minds of the survivors."
Ethnic cleansing has left an indelible trace; most of Bosnia is now divided along ethnic lines.
As Sudan's President, Omar al-Bashir, flew out of South Africa on Monday, contrails of the country's shame left an indelible trace in his wake.
Late in life, Méliès remarked that A Trip to the Moon was "surely not one of my best," but acknowledged that it was widely considered his masterpiece and that "it left an indelible trace because it was the first of its kind".
The Middle Ages were a high conflictive period in the Iberian Peninsula that left indelible traces in the landscape translated in defensive networks which still extend hundreds of kilometers.
I'm told that smoking is verboten in the cafe, but years of heavy-duty smoking has left its indelible traces.
Speaking on the phone from his current home in New York, he suggests that his photographs from Sri Lanka represent the developing theme of his work: the ways that wars leave their indelible traces, long after the world's attention and the news cycle have moved on.
They have left indelible traces on my personal epistemology". Art Criticism's mother, Art History, has made only one public comment, posted as a status update on her Facebook page.
The new Europe originates in Albania, a country of almost 3 million inhabitants that wears on its face the indelible traces of unconceivable suffering, still visible in the form of profound contradictions.
Here, we determine by indelible lineage tracing in mouse that fibres of sternohyoid muscle (SHM), which is essential for mouth opening during feeding, and oesophageal striated muscle (OSM), which is crucial for voluntary swallowing, arise from Pax3-expressing somite cells.
Leaving this likely indelible (and repugnant) trace behind, the quality of the French presidential race and runoff round beginning Monday has no place to go but up.
Wrap any flexible object all the way around your neck, fold it in two, use your felt-tip pen or indelible marker to trace HALF its length on the paper with a gentle curve, and draw a straight line at a right angle to that curve--be sure to allow just over TWICE the height of your neck.
