Sentence examples for track down something from inspiring English sources
The phrase "track down something" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used when referring to the act of searching for and locating something or someone that is difficult to find. Example: "After several weeks of searching, I was finally able to track down the missing documents."
It is far more trouble to type in the name, author, and shelf of every book I own than to spend an hour trying to track down something that I know is somewhere in my fifteen bookcases.
"When you track down something like that, you have this feeling of euphoria that I can only compare to how I felt when my kids were born," said Mr. Wittman, a burly, soft-spoken man who carries himself with the authority of a cop, but who was able, for long stretches, to convince criminals he was one of them.
For now, it's best at helping you track down something cool you saw in your News Feed.
If you haven't figured out what you're doing, where you're going, and who you're going with by noon on December 31, you might as well just call it a fucking night, because you're going to spend the rest of the day trying to track down something fun, and will probably hate yourself for eventually settling on going to a bar with your friend who now recruits people in his school to pyramid schemes.
After tracking down something like 60 hymnals, they settled on nine songs to "re-Process" with a full-blown band called the Sabbath Assembly.
It's nice to have everything so immediately accessible, but there's definitely something to be said for the rewards of tracking down something that's hard to find.
Fatca, as I reported with my colleague Brian Knowlton in December, is meant to help the Internal Revenue Service track down tax cheats, something that most people, even those who are unhappy with the new demands, can agree is a worthy goal.
This is a subplot at best, but Huffman inflates it -- and his own effort to track down these slaves -- into something far larger than the evidence can sustain.
A frantic consultation with musicologists around the world ensued, as Druyan, who later became Sagan's wife, battled to track down 26 specific recordings, which reflected something of the emergence and evolution of music on Earth.
Plus he has to track down a mysterious woman who has something to do with half-head-corpse but who doesn't seem to want to help him, as well as trying to get some sense out of a cryptic scientist called Sidorov (Jonathan Pryce) who appears to be allergic to technology.
In those cases he's forced to track down the sender and beg for something that should have been given to us in the first place.
