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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
• To complete the gown, the actor wore a long scarf around her neck, letting the tails trail behind her back like a train.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2024
• He’s left a trail behind him the way pulpwood trucks belch smoke along back country roads.
  — Kyle Whitmire | [e-mail], 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
• Some experts said medical risks due to heat often trail behind the rise in temperatures — but spike as the days of risk add up.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 July 2024
• 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
• Security camera footage shows a cat headed out of the factory on the night before and leaving the trail behind.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
• 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
• That launched a 55-year experiment in utopian ideals — and the harsh realities that sometimes trail after them.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024