tailing

Example Sentences

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But data provided by Blanchet shows the genre rapidly tailing off in the early 2010s.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

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

A few months later, undercover Internal Affairs detectives began tailing the two involved officers — something that Garza and Gonzalez both claimed they were kept in the dark about.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2025

She marched across the room, with me tailing her neon pink flats, to a huge copier tucked away in an alcove.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas