TRACK in a Sentence

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For TRACK, below is one of 324 sentences:
The fun of it is," he cried, "that that fool Lestrade, who thinks himself so smart, has gone off upon the wrong track altogether.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRACK
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track
 n.  any road or path affording passage
 v.  follow the course or trail of something, typically in order to find them
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As to poor Lestrade's discovery it was simply a blind intended to put the police upon a wrong track, by suggesting Socialism and secret societies.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  The fun of it is," he cried, "that that fool Lestrade, who thinks himself so smart, has gone off upon the wrong track altogether.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  Between the two ran the irregular track, so narrow in places that they had to travel in Indian file, and so rough that only practised riders could have traversed it at all.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
4  On a rock which overlooked the track, showing out dark and plain against the sky, there stood a solitary sentinel.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  More than once they lost their way, but Hope's intimate knowledge of the mountains enabled them to regain the track once more.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
6  "They will be upon our track by this time," he said.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
7  Even then it was no easy matter to keep to the right track, for the moon had not yet risen, and the high cliffs on either side made the obscurity more profound.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
8  This he made up into a bundle, and, tired as he was, he set himself to walk back through the mountains upon the track of the avenging angels.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
9  Perhaps it was some mischievous idea of setting the police upon a wrong track, for I felt light-hearted and cheerful.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
10  I saw the heavy footmarks of the constables, but I saw also the track of the two men who had first passed through the garden.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
11  I could perceive that the track of blood coincided with the track of his feet.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VII. THE CONCLUSION
12  And then she noticed a narrow track between young fir-trees, a track that seemed to lead nowhere.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
13  She followed the track, and the hammering grew nearer, in the silence of the windy wood, for trees make a silence even in their noise of wind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
14  And if she wasn't coming to him, he wouldn't track her down.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
15  They passed the narrow track to the hut.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
Example Sentence: (114 in 8 pages)
16  She had spent years trying to track down her parents.
17  I can't keep track of the new music.
18  Our horses plodded down the muddy track.
19  Racing was halted for an hour while the track was repaired.
20  The railway track will have to be cleared of vegetation if it is to be used again.
21  A degree in computer science offers a fast track to the top.
22  The train left the track and plunged down the embankment.
23  The new race track is nearly six miles in extent.
24  To most men, experience is like the stern light of a ship which il-luminates only the track it has passed.
25  If possible, select pairs of fish that already have a track record for breeding.
26  The boy was electrocuted when he wandered onto a railway track.
27  Many Croats and Slovenes saw independence as the fast track to democracy.
28  They come from Tuam, a place they refer to on the title track of their album, 'All the Way From Tuam'.
29  The road leading to the farm was little more than a dirt track.
30  Shortly before dusk they reached a fork and took the left-hand track.