How to Use trackway in a Sentence

trackway

noun
  • Passenger trains still aren’t running yet on the new trackway.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 14 Sep. 2019
  • Vestiges of the famous trackway can still be seen on the isthmus today.
    — Dimitris Sideridis, CNN, 11 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
  • 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
  • The man was removed alive from the trackway by firefighters and taken to a hospital.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The person was then removed from the trackway and taken to a local hospital.
    — George Kelly, The Mercury News, 30 July 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 Hyundai was lodged in the westbound trackway, and there was visible damage to the track and the electric third rail.
    — Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Some swim tracks cross-cut walking tracks, and most swim trackways are oriented toward the SSE.
    — New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
  • But the petroglyphs placement, and the design of some of the figures, was clearly inspired by the much more ancient trackways.
    — Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The three other footprints perpendicular to the trackway were scattered across the site.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 28 Nov. 2024
  • This explains why there are so many overlapping trackways but almost no evidence of later trampling.
    — New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Transit officials will then have to evaluate the safety of the structures, trackway and rail systems.
    — Gwendolyn Wu, SFChronicle.com, 25 July 2019
  • More traffic disruptions are expected later, while trackway spans are fastened over the freeway.
    — Mike Lindblom, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
  • The latest fossils emerged from a layer of sandy silt just above an extraordinary trackway of hominin footprints made public last year.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The park has partnered with several of the tribes and pueblos to learn more about ancient human trackways preserved in White Sands.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
  • Now, researchers and volunteers have uncovered the entire trackway where these Mesozoic monsters came and went.
    — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Only five other instances have been discovered—four trackways in China and one near Moab, Utah.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Archaeologists already knew one location along the trackway had about 27 ghost prints.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Xing has reported the oldest sauropod trackways and ornithischian prints found in China.
    — Kathleen McLaughlin, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2017
  • One of the most extraordinary findings is the section of swim trackways – the highest number documented to date.
    — New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025
  • The behavior recorded in the trackway is perhaps not surprising, Harcourt-Smith says.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2020

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