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

Olsen: Tell me a little bit about the finale of the movie, the sort of chase scene where the kids are running after you.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

Austrian veteran Gasser, champion in Pyeongchang and Beijing, was out of the running after scoring poorly in her first two runs.

From Barron's • Feb. 9, 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

It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari