trail behind
Example Sentences
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Toyota and other Japanese carmakers have long produced hybrid vehicles, though they trail behind companies such as BYD and Tesla in battery electric vehicles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
They now trail behind only the peaks reached before the dot-com crash of March 2000.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
In the film’s third act, Manville appears as the eccentric Doctor Cotter, a botanist living in the South American jungle in the 1950s, whose stringy, gray hair is almost long enough to trail behind her.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2024
The Orionids are particularly fast meteors so can be rather faint in appearance but they leave a distinctive light trail behind them that may last several seconds.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024
The women didn’t wear their hair long enough to trail behind them, and for good reason: The streets were as dirty as the streets of any city.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
