running after
Example Sentences
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Evolution may be less like climbing steadily toward perfection and more like running after a world that keeps moving.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
Inflation has heated up two months running after the conflict in the Middle East spiked crude oil prices, though for now remains inside the 1% to 3% window the Bank of Canada aims to maintain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
With Rangers now arithmetically out of the running after three consecutive losses, it is down to Hearts and defending champions Celtic.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Olsen: Tell me a little bit about the finale of the movie, the sort of chase scene where the kids are running after you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of the race.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
