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
O’Brien eventually makes it to the Oscars stage, with the children still running after him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2026
Smith shapes as a pivotal player for Australia, and has hit the ground running after a six-week break where he did not pick up a bat.
From Barron's • Nov. 13, 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
