There was just a fading trace of his white coat.

The Indian climate has clearly taken its toll on the delicate dyes of the color negative, and many of the film's most spectacular effects can be imagined only from the fading traces left on the screen.

She moved more quickly now, holding onto the last fading traces of her fear.

A 1940 photograph of the building shows a painted sign on the side wall for a chinaware import firm, and also the fading traces of earlier signs.

It was the fading trace of the mark made by a dacoit's strangle cord.

There is little to see, save the fading traces of a precisely circular rampart surrounding an immense area of meadow.

People coughed in the fading traces of the poisonspores, and marveled.

It was the fading trace of an ancient road they had been following for many miles, but it looked as if it had been used frequently, and lately.

It was a fading trace of the ancient road they had been following for many miles, but it looked as though it had often been used of late.

And the crowd cheered this least contentious declaration from the fading traces of the campaign trail.