Sentence examples for tracing our from inspiring English sources
Suddenly there was fire everywhere, blocking us from moving ahead or tracing our movements behind.
And for the rest of us, staring at the subway map, tracing our fingers east along the L line?
"For most of us, the feeling of a finger tracing our lips is delightful and arousing in a romantic setting with a lover but decidedly unerotic when it takes place in the doctor's office".
In a drawer at home I have a family tree my brother made as a school project long ago tracing our ancestry back several hundred years in Norway, but it's not enough.
What if, when tracing our genealogies, we abandoned thinking of ourselves in terms of the constricting and unscientific concepts of racial and ethnic identity, and thought instead about what ancestral motifs resonate in our genome?
For someone who loves railways and maps with equal intensity, it was a happy time, and I spent an hour or so propped up on the pillow gazing out of the window and tracing our progress in a South African atlas.
We are meant to keep reading, in order to trace our "begats".
"To what cause may we trace our present sad and deplorable condition?" he asked.
Moore traces our anxiety to guilt over slavery and the slaughter of Native Americans.
A traceur, Jeff Belle says, is someone "who traces David's footsteps, the way David traced our father's".
"Like this," he says, as we trace our names in fiery loops on the enveloping night.
