go after

Example Sentences

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“We have here social media that takes the vulnerable and goes after them in destructive ways. It’s as easy as A B C.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“I think it’s natural that you will see some switching of crops, and the farmers need to go after the crops that give them the best margins given the uncertainty.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“Are you going to go after alumni who have been calling it Memorial Stadium? No. So you didn’t focus on that. You focused on people that could be more impressionable, and it worked.”

From Los Angeles Times

The lion doesn’t go after the strongest, he said, “they find the one that they think is weaker, more vulnerable, and that’s the one that they get.”

From The Wall Street Journal

I went after her, calling and calling for her to come back.

From Literature