tailing

Example Sentences

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The tailings dam at a Sino Metals copper mine failed in Feb.

From The Wall Street Journal

The tailings facility is where waste from mining is stored.

From The Wall Street Journal

The video starts with a Jeep Cherokee with tinted windows tailing a dark gray truck before ramming the passenger door on the driver’s side.

From Los Angeles Times

But other portions were harder to confirm -- with Thai authorities not providing information, and Chinese officials tailing our reporters and impeding efforts to talk further with him.

From Barron's

Apart from some surveillance, tailing suspects, one fatal encounter and an occasional chase, there’s little in the way of capital-A Action, mostly just a lot of talk — inquisitive, instructive, threatening, discursive, domestic or speechifying.

From Los Angeles Times