spoor

[ UK /spˈɔː/ ]
[ US /ˈspʊɹ/ ]
NOUN
  1. the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game
    the hounds followed the fox's spoor
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How To Use spoor In A Sentence

  • Beyond that Spoornet will continue investing steadily to take capacity to 38 million tonnes a year by 2010.
  • Badger setts were harder to find but when snow fell it was easier to follow their spoor home, a dugout usually hidden under an old tree root in a clay bank. Fathers & Sons
  • But those who have spoored him across the country on his speaking engagements say he is a deeply moralistic man who feels strongly about principles and public conduct.
  • Not so, however, the zebra, pallah, buffalo, and rhinoceros; their spoor gives assurance that water is not far off, as they never stray any distance from its neighbourhood. A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries
  • This "vastation," I maintain contra Swedenborg, is the Sublime spoor of Azathoth. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • At the meeting there were counselors from the municipality, the mayor of the municipality itself, representatives from circuit and regional levels for education as well as the educators from Majadibodu secondary and their feeder school Abbotspoort Higher Primary. Moving up in the world… at least in age. « Peace Corps South Africa
  • He located the fox's spoor and loped along in pursuit.
  • As it was vanishing on the hill-tops, a group of enthusiasts preferred to forgo arguing and, grasping their spears, were soon busy tracking its spoor on the soft soil in the crevices among the boulders.
  • They followed cattle spoors for about seven kilometres and found 66 of the cattle scattered over a distance of 10 km.
  • Pisspoor Media will quote her sliming hyperbole no matter how much of a subliterary parasite she is revealed to be. Pair of Tweezers Caught Plagiarizing: James Wolcott
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