How to Use traceable in a Sentence

traceable

adjective
Definition of traceablenext
  • The fibers are 100% traceable from plastic to polyester.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Bolles made such a call, but in a way that should have left no traceable record.
    — AZCentral.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The firearms didn’t have any markings and are not traceable, Vanore added.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 6 July 2023
  • His unique voice is traceable to a single city block in New York City.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Of those patients, 289, or more than a third, had a strain of virus traceable to the conference.
    — TheWeek, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The gold used to make the cards is source-traceable, meaning its provenance can be checked, the mint said in a statement.
    — Rory Sullivan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Hide its own icon app to be less traceable by not advanced users.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The suspect was armed with an AR-15 rifle and a 9 mm ghost gun that's not traceable, Wainwright said.
    — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • Many others who have health problems traceable to 9/11 may be equally in the dark.
    — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Ellington said there is nothing about the paper that is unique to the county, or traceable.
    — Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
  • One of the features of the blockchain is that all transactions are traceable and reproducible.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Feb. 2021
  • This helps some of the largest non-profits in the world give the support that people need to them in an easy, efficient, and traceable way.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 6 Feb. 2023
  • All of this carnage was traceable back to Osama bin Laden's decision to launch the 9/11 attacks.
    — Richard Galant, CNN, 12 Sep. 2021
  • Maybe less known is that more than a third of greenhouse gases are traceable to the global food sector.
    — Simon Mainwaring, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
  • The seeds of this moment are traceable to the final months of 2016, the last time Mr. West was so public, and one of the most troubled periods of his life.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • As a result, the guns do not have serial numbers and are not traceable.
    — Christopher Keating, courant.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Or maybe this song goes back further than traceable lineages can hold.
    — Anne Liu Kellor, Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The three counties have sent their old untested kits in monthly batches to the private lab to see if any of the swabs yielded traceable DNA.
    — Maxine Bernstein, OregonLive.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • To extend the food metaphor, there’s no bad-for-you additives, just natural fibers made in a traceable way.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Each portion is fully traceable; just scan the QR code to learn more about the fisherman or farmer behind fish.
    — Bon Appétit, 3 June 2022
  • Cover up tattoos, wear non-traceable clothing, and wear a mask.
    — Kristina Libby, Popular Mechanics, 12 June 2020
  • Harvested acreage of New Mexico chiles — a New World crop traceable in the state back at least to the 1500s — has declined in recent years.
    — Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2024
  • About a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions are traceable to the food supply chain.
    — Ezra Klein New York Times, Star Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021
  • One aspect that makes the Lacks case special is that the HeLa cell line bears her name, making all the research stemming from it traceable to her as the point of origin.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 12 Aug. 2023
  • But many cases in Lombardy, officials say, may be traceable to that one case.
    — Elisabetta Povoledo, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Anything that hits the grill and then your plate is traceable, from the prawns with yellow pepper to the simple, superb roasted cabbage.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2022
  • Los Angeles has only had one day of traceable rain in almost two months.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Westchester County had 100 cases, many of them believed to be traceable to the lawyer who had turned up positive on March 2.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 16 May 2020
  • Assault weapons or ghost guns, which are firearms with no traceable serial number, earned a $200 gift card.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
  • The jacket is created from 100 percent traceable cashmere and is available in five colors.
    — Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 5 Sep. 2024

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