A map nearby will trace the scores of sewage pipes emptying in the harbor, the bathing beaches and the fishing spots.

A ghostly map traced its way across the bridge.

How many, times have I seen him extended on the ground, examining the beautiful maps which he had brought with him, and he would sometimes make me lie down in the same position to trace to me his projected march.

With the exception of one tattered first-grade language book an aunt had passed on, she had no books to puzzle over, no pictures to admire, no maps to trace with her finger.

Yellowing maps trace oxyacetylene lines (used for welding) running under the yard and specify the weight that can be borne by the foundations of the aged buildings.

Hidden away in drawers and adjacent anterooms are an estimated two million items, ranging from two centuries' worth of detailed survey maps of the British Isles to the stunningly ornate work of Renaissance and medieval cartographers, whose maps more closely trace the landscape of their own imaginations than any real geography.

Soviet and American maps trace the current levels of contamination, the active remnants of a far larger group of short-lived radioactive particles that rained down on millions of people in the days immediately following the accident.

One couple's map traced their journey from Westchester County to China, where they adopted their daughter.

Design drawings, photographs and maps trace the history of the zoo, which began with a single bear cub in 1858.