How to Use trackway in a Sentence

trackway

noun

• If a hominin made the tracks at Site G, then what kind of creature made the bipedal trackway at Site A?
  — Jeremy Desilva, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
• In at least three points along the way, tiny footprints join the main trackway, evidence of a child less than three years old.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2020
• Vestiges of the famous trackway can still be seen on the isthmus today.
  — Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 11 Nov. 2022
• Now that fossil hunters have a better idea of what to look for, there is a chance that more early pterosaur trackways will be found.
  — John Pickrell, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2020
• Both a giant sloth and a mammoth ambled across the humans’ path, the trackway reveals.
  — Katherine Kornei, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2020
• One trackway now consists of five prints, the other seven.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• Archaeologists found wooden posts that seemed to mark the route of the trackway, which seemed to lead up to a platform, Kennedy writes.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2 July 2018
• Passenger trains still aren’t running yet on the new trackway.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• After cutting power to the rails, officials learned the person in the trackway was alive.
  — George Kelly, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
• The Goolarabooloo have known about the fossil trackways for millennia.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2017
• The person was then removed from the trackway and taken to a local hospital.
  — George Kelly, The Mercury News, 30 July 2019
• The fencing is the latest in a series of efforts by BART to shore up security for its 46 miles of ground-level trackway.
  — Matier & Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2018
• Yet social behavior is more challenging to tease out, and ancient trackways are one of the few windows in.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 26 Feb. 2018
• After the dog appeared at Church Station and took refuge under the lip of the platform, station agent Cathsai Kwong climbed onto the trackway and coaxed the pup into his arms.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 6 June 2019
• Never cross or run in front of an approaching streetcar, and avoid entering the trackway from between two parked cars.
  — Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2018
• Transit officials will then have to evaluate the safety of the structures, trackway and rail systems.
  — Gwendolyn Wu, SFChronicle.com, 25 July 2019
• Limited access to the area, as well as its largely secret location, has helped keep the trackways there intact.
  — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 25 Apr. 2018
• Abundant fossil bones, teeth, trackways, and other hard evidence have revealed that Earth was the domain of the dinosaurs for at least 230 million years.
  — Victoria Jaggard, National Geographic, 31 July 2019
• The behavior recorded in the trackway is perhaps not surprising, Harcourt-Smith says.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2020
• The routes include part of the Icknield Way, an ancient trackway in eastern and southern England, which some scholars believe to be prehistoric.
  — Emma Batha, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Nov. 2020
• Meanwhile, trains still get stuck at the starting line, where gridlock fills trackway crossings at Fairview Avenue, Valley and sometimes Mercer streets.
  — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 1 July 2017
• Dinosaur and bird tracks shed light on what species roamed here, and trackways — where several footprints appear in a row — show how dinosaurs walked, ran and interacted.
  — Kate Siber, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
• Using that formula, known as Alexander’s method, the study authors calculated that the theropod that made the seven-footprint trackway ran about 20 to 28 miles an hour.
  — Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 9 Dec. 2021
• The second trackway was potentially made by the same species — or even the same individual — soon after the first was made but this time the track-maker used a different type of gait and moved a bit faster up the dune slope.
  — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2020
• The site features remnants of the ancient animal's footprint trails, called trackways, and imprints of ancient soil, known as paleosols.
  — Herald and News, OregonLive.com, 5 Mar. 2018
• Amtrak admitted negligence after its first passenger train on a new trackway flew off a curve at 80 mph near DuPont.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2019
• In December, the longest trackway of fossil human footprints was announced by Matthew R. Bennett and colleagues.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2020
• One of the ancient travelers who left a trackway heading in a different direction than the larger group appears to have been passing through the area in a hurry, running at better than six miles per hour.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2020
• Xing has reported the oldest sauropod trackways and ornithischian prints found in China.
  — Kathleen McLaughlin, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
• Archaeologists already knew one location along the trackway had about 27 ghost prints.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024