How to Use tracer in a Sentence

tracer

noun

• The enemy fired tracers at the aircraft carrier.
• They injected her with a radioactive tracer and tracked it via X-rays.
• This is by no means the first time NASA has lit up the night with vapor tracers.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• The graph shows tracer binding in four areas of the brain - the lower the line, the more nicotine.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2011
• The point breaks off high spots and roughs stone to shape; the tracer splits more precisely.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2021
• If you were tested, feel free to ask the contact tracer when and where.
  — Nerd Wallet, oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2020
• My goal is at least 20 people with an AR-15 and some tracer rounds.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 22 Aug. 2022
• Cameras were set up at Wallops and in Duck, N.C., to track the color tracers through the air.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 29 June 2017
• But a call from a tracer did help people in other ways.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
• Skinny: Bauer should have been ahead, 0-1, but plate umpire Adam Hamari missed the call on a low tracer to the inside edge at the knees.
  — Dennis Manoloff, cleveland.com, 31 July 2017
• The background was a backing light made to look like the city with tracer lights for moving cars and green and red lights for traffic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• There are currently just 500 tracers across the state, with plans to add thousands more.
  — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 23 Apr. 2020
• The flamethrowers that were fired at old appliances, the tracers that lit up the sky, the teenage girl who had near perfect aim with a pistol.
  — Pipposts, Longreads, 18 Dec. 2019
• For a state the size of Indiana, that number is more than 2,000 contact tracers.
  — Tony Cook, Indianapolis Star, 1 May 2020
• One key tracer is iron-60, forged in the cores of large stars, which has a half-life of 2.6 million years and is not made naturally on Earth.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2021
• What has surprised you about your county from your work as a contact tracer?
  — Logan Jaffe, ProPublica, 1 Oct. 2020
• Are those red lights in the distance tracer fire or fireworks from a wedding? (Fireworks.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2016
• In it, lights can be seen in the distance and what appears to be a single gunshot can be heard, with a tracer round racing across the top of the water.
  — Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2021
• An officer hit by tracer shells, his wounds smoking, begs his men to shoot him.
  — Daniel Todman, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
• Typically, a chemical tracer would be added to the water, like a salt or dye, to track the flow.
  — Kevin Davenport, idahostatesman, 3 July 2018
• But few of these contact tracers have spoken out in public.
  — Aliza Nadi, NBC News, 27 Apr. 2020
• Cardenas saw a ditch, ran to it and began crawling along its banks, tracers whizzed over his head.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 5 Aug. 2019
• With two outs and the bases loaded in the seventh, Chris Taylor crushed a fastball from Craig Stammen, sending a tracer over the left-field wall.
  — Dennis Lin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
• Red tracer fire arced across Takhto Valley in response.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• The tracer, which is injected into the bloodstream, lights up those cells during a PET scan.
  — NBC News, 27 May 2021
• Plus, each bag comes with a unique tracer number for easy recovery.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2023
• The city has yet to meet the threshold of contact tracers, or total hospital beds and ICU beds available.
  — Audrey McNamara, CBS News, 28 May 2020
• Most states are currently in need of more contact tracers.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 6 May 2020
• The researchers then used PET scans to study their brains, including a tracer that binds to estrogen receptors.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 17 July 2024
• Intrigued, the team decided to repeat the experiment in mice using a much finer tracer: nanoparticles of gold.
  — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024