without a trace
idiom
: without leaving any signs to show where one went
He disappeared/vanished without a trace.
Examples of without a trace in a Sentence
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But what Jack doesn’t know is that Bailey took the job to find her friend who went missing in the woods surrounding his home—the same friend who was out in those woods looking for another girl who vanished without a trace.
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Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
The girls' father, an Irish bartender whom Gilda met soon after her arrival on Nantucket, headed back to Ireland without a trace when the girls were young.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 22 May 2024
There were so many incredibly popular artists in the past who have disappeared without a trace beneath the waves.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 18 May 2024
Galena mysteriously went missing on April 10, but her owners couldn't figure out how the indoor cat could disappear without a trace, Carrie Clark told NBC affiliate KSL.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024
Price's arrest came after four additional suspects were previously arrested in connection to the deaths of Butler and Kelley, who disappeared without a trace on March 30.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Apr. 2024
But in late January 2023, Chavez-Montoya went from living this life of predictability to simply vanishing without a trace.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
People like Dau, his brother figured — charismatic, fun-loving jokesters — don’t just disappear without a trace, not in neighborhoods like his in Jackson, where surveillance cameras are everywhere, like seeds on a strawberry.
—Trymaine Lee, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2024
His most recent murder charge was for the disappearance and death of Isabel Celis, who disappeared from her room without a trace in 2012.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
Shannon Carlin, TIME, 22 May 2024
The girls' father, an Irish bartender whom Gilda met soon after her arrival on Nantucket, headed back to Ireland without a trace when the girls were young.
—Heller McAlpin, NPR, 22 May 2024
There were so many incredibly popular artists in the past who have disappeared without a trace beneath the waves.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 18 May 2024
Galena mysteriously went missing on April 10, but her owners couldn't figure out how the indoor cat could disappear without a trace, Carrie Clark told NBC affiliate KSL.
—Doha Madani, NBC News, 28 Apr. 2024
Price's arrest came after four additional suspects were previously arrested in connection to the deaths of Butler and Kelley, who disappeared without a trace on March 30.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 24 Apr. 2024
But in late January 2023, Chavez-Montoya went from living this life of predictability to simply vanishing without a trace.
—Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2024
People like Dau, his brother figured — charismatic, fun-loving jokesters — don’t just disappear without a trace, not in neighborhoods like his in Jackson, where surveillance cameras are everywhere, like seeds on a strawberry.
—Trymaine Lee, NBC News, 19 Apr. 2024
His most recent murder charge was for the disappearance and death of Isabel Celis, who disappeared from her room without a trace in 2012.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2024
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“Without a trace.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/without%20a%20trace. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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