running after
Example Sentences
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Inflation has heated up two months running after the conflict in the Middle East spiked crude oil prices, though for now remains inside the 1% to 3% window the Bank of Canada aims to maintain.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 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
It and its leader Domingos Simoes Pereira, who only recently returned from exile, were disqualified from running after the Supreme Court ruled their legislative and presidential applications had been submitted after the deadline.
From Barron's • Nov. 23, 2025
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
“A red locomotive, moving fast along shiny new tracks. And it blows a trail of smoke behind it? Like a man running after the omnibus while clutching a lit cigar?”
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
