How to Use paper trail in a Sentence

paper trail

noun

• They covered up the fraud and were careful not to leave a paper trail.
• The edges of the paper trail in the water, soaking it up like a sponge.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 17 May 2018
• If that were the case, there should be a paper trail to confirm it.
  — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• And aside from the obvious paper trail, the group seems to have a slam dunk of a case.
  — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 19 Oct. 2017
• No paper trail has tied Frank to George or even George to Ida.
  — The Root, 13 Apr. 2018
• And all those tweets and posts end up being a paper trail.
  — Hazlitt, 16 Dec. 2022
• There’s no paper trail of any unit being sold to any group.
  — David Anderson, The Aegis, 11 Sep. 2017
• Because Richard has a paper trail of all the things that happened.
  — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 7 June 2023
• The paper trail between you and the cruise line did not spell out the airfare refund rules.
  — Christopher Elliott, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Jan. 2023
• But there was no way the casting team could have known since there was no paper trail.
  — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 14 June 2024
• Three plays after the paper trail, Dak found Dez for his second catch of the night, this one a 40-yarder down to the 5-yard line.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 17 Dec. 2017
• There is also a sort of online paper trail that seems to grow each day.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2021
• But in 1982, the task force had to rely on a literal paper trail.
  — Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2022
• That ball is outta here and there is nothing left but a paper trail!
  — Jackson Weimer, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• And the state is one of a few whose election machines still produce no paper trail.
  — Paul Waldman, The Denver Post, 28 Aug. 2019
• But in a phone interview, Li says that a lack of a paper trail wouldn’t come as a surprise.
  — National Geographic, 17 May 2017
• Every vote has a paper trail, and paper cannot be hacked.
  — Baltimore Sun, 17 May 2022
• Oral history was – and still is – a major link to our past, but the paper trail can go cold.
  — USA Today, 17 Oct. 2019
• The vast majority of votes cast in the United States right now are with a paper trail.
  — CBS News, 19 May 2024
• The company prefers e-mails to phone calls, since the paper trail is easier to track.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• The paper trail dried up when the consultants left Matrix.
  — Sarah Blaskey, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2022
• Ozier has found the paper trail that might prove the latter to be ambiguous, at best.
  — Rosalind Bentley, ajc, 24 Aug. 2021
• Perhaps the biggest problem in Schweikert’s ethics case is the sheer volume and scale of the paper trail against him.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2020
• The only kind of money that leaves no paper trail is paper.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 28 Mar. 2022
• But 14 states have no paper trail for their voting systems, and Georgia is one of them.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 7 Nov. 2017
• That way, there would never be a paper trail showing that the two of them had exchanged messages.
  — Zachariah Mushawatu, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2024
• Someone can make batches of the deadly stuff and never leave a paper trail.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 13 Mar. 2018
• Without a paper trail, there's no way to prove someone asked for their money back.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
• Despite the ties to Democratic firms, there is a scant paper trail to determine who is overseeing the effort.
  — Ryan J. Foley and Brian Slodysko, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
• Prosecutors say Adams kept fake paper trails and deleted messages to hide his misconduct.
  — Chloe Atkins, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024