trail
Example Sentences
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The Americans haven’t trailed since the middle of the second period of their second game.
From Los Angeles Times
No matter who winds up buying Warner, the new combined streamer will still trail YouTube in the U.S., even in the living room.
From Barron's
“So you left a trail on our computer.”
From Literature
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Entering the fourth and final heat of the monobob, in which the winner is determined by the cumulative total of all four times, Meyers Taylor trailed the leader by 0.15 seconds.
When asked about his acting technique, Duvall would describe it as simply as his favorite character — Augustus McCrae, the wry trail boss on the TV miniseries “Lonesome Dove” — might have described riding a horse.
From Los Angeles Times
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