Sentence examples for trace on a map from inspiring English sources

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I asked him once to trace on a map of the country the routes he had travelled, and before he was through the first twenty years of his life he had worn a hole through the paper.

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His campaign, traced on a map, seems a rather desultory wander not very deep into France.

The boundary between Israel and the West Bank has been called the "green line" since 1949, when it was traced on a map in green ink as part of a cease-fire ending what Israel calls its War of Independence.

It's interesting, though, to note that even their travel books have tended to evolve into other things — histories, recollections, investigations — rather than linear journeys traced on a map.

Reported routes of travel throughout the city were traced on a map which was divided into 180 grids, where each grid represented 1.29 km, and the grid coordinates were recorded.

Each fault trace is straight on a map, suggesting that the fault dip near the surface is almost vertical.

Being able to trace biological history on a map made evolution clear to Wallace, and there's no reason the same can't happen for students today.

Here is our homeland, they said, tracing an outline on a map, now where should its capital be?

Richard Driediger, though, scoffs: "These are like class-zero rapids," he says disdainfully, his finger tracing their route on a map.

Air Vice Marshal S Nair, a senior air force officer, traces our route on a map as we follow the Ganges river.

And when the heroes, who are driving in Kermit's town car, discover that Miss Piggy lives in Paris (and realize that you can't drive from the U.S. to France), they announce that they'll travel there "by map," a moment that is followed by the sight gag of a small model of their car tracing a line on a map from New York across the Atlantic to Cannes.

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