How to Use untraceable in a Sentence

untraceable

adjective
  • Plus, my pores are untraceable.
    — Reece Andavolgyi, InStyle, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Nathaniel Berhow used an untraceable ghost gun for the attack.
    — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2021
  • These days, the 27-year-old rhymes with a drawl untraceable to any region.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
  • The power is untraceable as it is made up of a mix of available fuels.
    — Lulu Ramadan, ProPublica, 28 July 2024
  • Money sent to strangers in this way is untraceable, and once it is sent, there's no getting it back.
    — USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Of course, the rental company is a fake and will make off with the untraceable money in a flash.
    — Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Ghost guns are untraceable firearms that can be bought online and assembled at home.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 July 2023
  • It had long been considered untraceable — or even destroyed in the war.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • Just a dozen of the untraceable weapons were picked up by police in 2018.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The weapons, just a novelty a decade ago, have become an untraceable menace in the crime world.
    — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The idea is to thwart thieves who know the owner’s passcode and hope to quickly make the device untraceable.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The use of these untraceable devices is rapidly rising.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026
  • Six twin-turboprops and two private jets appear to be untraceable.
    — Penn Bullock, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Behind the big promises was someone who walked away with hundreds of dollars in untraceable gift cards.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2025
  • Now untraceable, his monument to New York is as vast as one cares to imagine.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • He was released on a bond and later deemed untraceable; Mansour was sentenced to death.
    — Preeti Jha, CNN, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Money spent on the sport is untraceable in much of Latin America.
    — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • The use of untraceable ghost guns is on the rise in metropolitan areas throughout the state.
    — Nora Mishanec, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Unfinished frames and receivers lack serial numbers and can be used to make untraceable guns at home.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 29 June 2022
  • Young people are getting their hands on largely untraceable guns with the ease of ordering school supplies.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
  • These untraceable weapons have been around for more than a decade, becoming a massive problem for law enforcement.
    — Makena Kelly, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
  • It was devised to cause a traumatic brain injury from a distance in so precise a manner as to be untraceable.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Transactions cannot be reversed and are often untraceable.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2025
  • But the luxury of quiet can’t be sustained, and the outside world inevitably creeps in through sirens and untraceable screams.
    — Tavi Gevinson, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2022
  • But the list of 24 untraceable items, Dimri said, is imperfect.
    — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
  • Rinella brings his expert skills as a survivalist to trace what were thought to be untraceable steps and reveal new evidence along the way.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 11 Dec. 2024
  • On Tuesday, Hong Kong recorded its first untraceable local case in over three months.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Without it, one edge case becomes an untraceable outage or corrupts real systems.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The email goes on to give instructions about how to make an untraceable payment and the sender’s contact information.
    — cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • The obvious answer is to make the payoff as untraceable as possible.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018

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