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
As he stops right next to the fishing boat, hundreds of birds trail behind it.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025
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
They split us into two groups, and we trail behind them into the parking lot, where there are actual buses waiting to be boarded.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
