be on the track of

Example Sentences

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"But a big surprise is always a clue you might be on the track of something."

From Time Magazine Archive

Hope to be on the track of TOM TIDDLER's ground very soon.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 by Various

If oil can be used to good effect anywhere upon troubled waters, we should judge that it might be on the track of vessels between Tasmania and South New Zealand.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray

I may be on the track of something or it may be sheer chance.

From The Ambassador by Merwin, Sam

It is Spinosa's plausible method that has deceived people; they supposed that one who employed geometry, and proceeded by way of axioms and definitions, must be on the track of truth.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by Morley, John