Sentence examples for take a tract from inspiring English sources

If you take a tract or ask a question, you've gone well beyond your civic duty.

"People want a patch of woods in the backyard of their house," said Dr. Keesing, "so developers will take a tract of forest and carve it up into little pieces and then put in lawns.

Since the data are only available at the census-tract level, this study takes a census tract as the base geographical unit of analysis.

That spring a friend of his who lived in the village of Oakmont, some 12 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, suggested that Fownes take a look at a tract of rolling pastureland in that area.

Development in New York, particularly on such a large, complicated tract, could take a long time.

Fabian treats her for a dog bite, and soon she persuades him to take a trip to an isolated tract of country: soon after Fabian is found naked and unconscious in a culvert, the victim of a sexual assault so severe it has rendered him comatose.

"Imagine you owned that house there" — she pointed out the window to an upscale tract home — "and I take a sample and find the valley-fever fungus.

At the top of the rectum, the digestive tract takes a 90 degree turn like a kink in a hose.

An Almond for a Parrot takes its title from a tract by the Elizabethan writer Thomas Nashe, but is more obviously inspired by Daniel Defoe and John Cleland.

Setting up the infrastructure to contain algae systems like the Canopy is incredibly expensive (given that these systems require constant temperature control) and take massive tracts of land.

The unutilized red mud stored either in slurry form or in dry stacking takes vast tract of usable land and has an adverse effect on the quality of ground water, surface water and also on animal and plant life.