tailing

Example Sentences

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They’re tailing skiers as they rip through moguls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

For example: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2026

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 • Oct. 14, 2025

The pregnant woman, Cary López Alvarado, told NBC Los Angeles that the agents had been tailing her husband and co-worker when they pulled into the parking lot of a building where they were doing maintenance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025

He waited for the lightning but it was tailing off and when the next one came and then the next he knew that the storm had taken out their tracks.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy