trail away/off

phrasal verb

trailed away/off; trailing away/off; trails away/off

—used to say that someone's voice becomes softer and softer and then stops

She started asking him a question, but then her voice trailed off.

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Nothing stays fixed, though: tones slide, decay, trail off. —

Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025 The lookout lies at the southern end of Island in the Sky drive, just off the road on a paved path, with a second perch a one-mile trail away. —

Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2025 His game started to trail off toward midseason, though, and his world juniors for Canada was average. —

Corey Pronman, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024 Looking elegantly windblown in a sweater, her mass of hair cascading like the precious garland of some Irish deity, Farrow has a tendency to trail off in conversation. —

Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for trail away/off

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