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

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

Its three-time presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is barred from running after being convicted in a corruption case, but her 30-year-old lieutenant Bardella could be a candidate instead.

From Barron's • Oct. 11, 2025

I don’t know what would have become of us if it hadn’t been for Mama Mwanza’s daughters, who came running after us, bringing oranges and a demijohn of water.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver