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

After tailing him for hours, Ontario police tried to arrest Pulido later that day in Kern County.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

And so I started tailing Craig around the neighborhood, meeting the kids I didn’t already know from school.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama