running after

Example Sentences

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Evolution may be less like climbing steadily toward perfection and more like running after a world that keeps moving.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Hosam Algaer, a Leipzig resident originally from Libya, told AFP he narrowly avoided being hit by the vehicle before running after it to try and help the injured until the car came to a stop.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

It felt like missing the last helicopter out of ’Nam, as if I were running after couplehood as bombs went off around me and yelling, “Nnnnnooooooooooo!!”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

Running only 76 minutes, the movie is a veristic and voluble delight, an exercise in eavesdropping on a pair of smart, funny people who wear posterity—there’s a tape recorder running, after all—with wry lightness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

For a moment, she thought of running after him, but then the smell hit her.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny