Sentence examples for tracing across from inspiring English sources

The cinematographer Tim Orr has accomplished something remarkable: the African-American children seem to have been lighted from within, and their skin has a slight burnished glow, as if the sun is deftly tracing across their bodies.

The idea might be simple — zippers built-in, say, to a jacket's fitted collar and then tracing across the shoulder and disappearing under the arm, or placed down the length of the spine to expose a naked back — but it was powerful.

Improvements are now on the horizon with independent actors stepping up to increase effectiveness of contact tracing across borders.

We could see and touch each other, read each other's moods like fingers tracing across braille, but our mechanism for reconciling, for flushing the toxins out of the relationship, had atrophied.

After a snowstorm, a number of patterns are traced across the gradually clearing surfaces.

This was the beginning, says Mr Marozzi, "of a pattern of bloodshed that can be traced across the centuries".

Both realms can be traced for thousands of kilometres along the length of the mountain belt, but neither can be traced across it.

They could be located in their families - every sailor has a mother if not a wife - and their lives traced across time.

"If you want to trace across multiple dimensions the legacies of inequality, Chicago is a microcosm of all the things that are bearing down on cities," Sampson said.

This concept, whose myriad forms and permutations Lester traces across the broad expanse of Western history, has a fairly mixed track record.

The length of a dike usually depends upon how far it can be traced across the surface; dikes can be up to hundreds of miles long.