tailing

Example Sentences

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They’re tailing skiers as they rip through moguls.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

For example: The work C was doing has a name—“commuting”—a deliberately mundane term for pursuing, tailing, and deliberately irritating ICE agents moving through the city in unmarked cars.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2026

But other portions were harder to confirm -- with Thai authorities not providing information, and Chinese officials tailing our reporters and impeding efforts to talk further with him.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

The pregnant woman, Cary López Alvarado, told NBC Los Angeles that the agents had been tailing her husband and co-worker when they pulled into the parking lot of a building where they were doing maintenance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025

She marched across the room, with me tailing her neon pink flats, to a huge copier tucked away in an alcove.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas