Sentence examples for spoor from inspiring English sources
The word "spoor" is correct in written English
It is used to refer to the track or scent left by an animal, often in the context of tracking wildlife. Example: "The ranger followed the spoor of the deer through the dense forest." Alternatives include "track" and "trail."
verb
To track an animal by following its spoor
The industrial societies of the world's developed countries are the most wasteful ever, their spoor turning up in every corner of the Earth.
The rock he treads on, whether quartz, feldspar, limestone or sandstone; the birds above him, whether exulting skylarks, hovering kestrels or a rising heron, "a foldaway construction of struts and canvas"; the foil or spoor of animals, and their eyes glowing orange or green in the dark (even spiders' eyes, he writes, show in the dark like tiny stars); trees, grass, fly-tipping, flowers.
Other spoor point to the presence of gorillas, too.
The Dutch in Cape Province gave the terms apartheid, commandeer, commando, spoor, and trek to South African speech.
But "spoor" is not to be sniffed at and, like some scatological Sherlock Holmes, I am on the scent of this wood's other inhabitants.
Swales was leading six tourists on a walking safari when he spotted fresh lion spoor and decided to track a pride of lions consisting of two females, two cubs and two males, according to the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.
Landscape-as-poisoned-terrain is implied in Robert Zungu's installation of taxidermied seagulls scattered under a cutout of a smiling Nancy Reagan, in an explosive assemblage painting by Kianja Strobert and -- more benignly -- in Yasue Maetake's balletic video "Sea of Fertility," which documents a series of pollen-and-spoor-dispensing performances.
SPOOR--Edna H.,94, of South Canaan Road died February 23 at Geer Village.
Susan C. Anton, an anthropologist at New York University who was a member of the Spoor-Leakey team, said, "My money is still on habilis as the potential ancestor, but there is a lot of room for additional knowledge, given the dearth of fossils".
"In the past, Cisco had been very rigid about having executive events be off the record," said Erica Spoor, a global event strategist for Cisco.
"There has been nothing but duplicity, double dealings and double agendas," said Richard Spoor, the lawyer who handled the case.
