How to Use trail (along) behind/after in a Sentence

trail (along) behind/after

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  • Re had a two-run homer in the first, as the Aztecs didn't trail after that.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 29 Apr. 2023
  • And there are nearly 700 miles of trail behind us, all the way up to Maine.
    Benje Williams, Longreads, 14 Mar. 2022
  • As the comets move around the sun, their ice melts and the particles trail behind them in the orbit.
    Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022
  • He’s left a trail behind him the way pulpwood trucks belch smoke along back country roads.
    Kyle Whitmire | Kwhitmire@al.com, al, 11 July 2023
  • Hemlines pool around models’ feet and trail behind them.
    Christina Binkley, Town & Country, 8 Apr. 2022
  • But the Cardinal defense was stifling, and Stanford did not trail after the game’s first minute.
    oregonlive, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Anyone who was in the area on the serpentine trail behind the visitor center on the afternoon of Sun.
    Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2023
  • In recent weeks, Fetterman has reemerged on the campaign trail after taking much of the summer off due to his recovery from the stroke.
    Fox News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The Marders meanwhile would trail behind the tanks, dropping off infantry squads to suppress Russian infantry.
    David Axe, Forbes, 15 July 2023
  • Adam Roy at Backpacker reports that on April 8, a group of English hikers got sick on the trail after taking ’shrooms and had to be rescued.
    Dakota Kim, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Wozniacki is on the comeback trail after having two children and has long been a crowd favorite in New York.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The water vapor and cirrus clouds that planes trail behind them look picturesque, but their warming impact is three times that of carbon.
    Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Like with booster rates among those who aren’t pregnant, Black and Hispanic people trail behind.
    Duaa Eldeib, ProPublica, 4 Aug. 2022
  • His dogs trail after him, diving headfirst into the field before reappearing on the other side, having lost the scent of a rabbit.
    Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Or is the strategy to, on the contrary, open it up as widely as possible, so that progress is as fast as possible, so that the bad guys always trail behind?
    TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • At the end of the wedding reception the brothers left, then returned via a trail behind the home, armed with baseball bats, without the victim and his family knowing.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The atmospheric gas outflows are possibly shaped by stellar winds from Au Mic, which don’t allow all of the escaped gas to trail behind Au Mic b.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Musicians and stilt walkers dressed as skeletons trail behind.
    Time, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Another option is to take the trail behind the visitor center, which scrambles up a limestone hill known as Overlook Ridge with lovely views of the fort and valleys below.
    Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Louisville first-year head coach Jeff Brohm immediately hit the recruiting trail after being hired in December and was able to keep together most of the 2023 class.
    Alexis Cubit, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The incumbent has rallied support on the campaign trail behind the idea that she was being prosecuted for disrupting the status quo.
    Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2022
  • Lines trail behind the figure, suggesting a sash, and another line appears to show the figure symbolically emerging from the rock.
    CNN, 4 May 2022
  • Fetterman has recently returned to the campaign trail after a three-month hiatus following a stroke.
    Kenneth Tran, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2022
  • But just like any emerging business model where rules and regulations trail behind, car-sharing is having its own growing pains.
    Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Both are lagging indicators that can trail behind new infections by weeks.
    WSJ, 22 Apr. 2021
  • But most currently trail behind the Chinese and Japanese market leaders.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 21 Apr. 2023
  • There are other instances of candidates not just changing positions, but overhauling the paper trail behind them.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Yet our representation as decision makers at the helm in the industry continues to trail behind.
    Admin, Essence, 18 Oct. 2021
  • His father, Irfan, ran a small tannery business, where young Volkan would trail behind him, taking notes on all the recipes and processes, nostrils filled with the pungent smell of corrosive chemicals and decaying flesh.
    Isabel Slone, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Shortly after, the DeSantis campaign is expected to put out a formal campaign launch video before taking to the campaign trail after Memorial Day.
    Makena Kelly, The Verge, 23 May 2023

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