trail (along) behind/after
idiom
: to walk or move slowly as one follows behind (someone or something)
She marched down the street with her children trailing (along) behind/after (her).
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In 2022, the city spent about $50,000 fixing the damage and ultimately reopened the trail after a several-month closure.
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Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2024
Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer trail behind Musk with $149 billion and $142 billion respective net worths, followed by ex-Google CEO Larry Page.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
Security camera footage shows a cat headed out of the factory on the night before and leaving the trail behind.
—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
Immediately after the polls closed, Shanelle Scales-Preston and Jelani Killings were starting to trail behind the pack.
—Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
To complete the gown, the actor wore a long scarf around her neck, letting the tails trail behind her back like a train.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2024
Or is the strategy to, on the contrary, open it up as widely as possible, so that progress is as fast as possible, so that the bad guys always trail behind?
—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
The rest of the candidates trail behind Trump and Haley, with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 12%, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy at 8%, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 5% and former Arksansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson at less than 1%.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
The atmospheric gas outflows are possibly shaped by stellar winds from Au Mic, which don’t allow all of the escaped gas to trail behind Au Mic b.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2024
Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer trail behind Musk with $149 billion and $142 billion respective net worths, followed by ex-Google CEO Larry Page.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
Security camera footage shows a cat headed out of the factory on the night before and leaving the trail behind.
—Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024
Immediately after the polls closed, Shanelle Scales-Preston and Jelani Killings were starting to trail behind the pack.
—Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
To complete the gown, the actor wore a long scarf around her neck, letting the tails trail behind her back like a train.
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 10 Mar. 2024
Or is the strategy to, on the contrary, open it up as widely as possible, so that progress is as fast as possible, so that the bad guys always trail behind?
—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
The rest of the candidates trail behind Trump and Haley, with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at 12%, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy at 8%, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at 5% and former Arksansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson at less than 1%.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2024
The atmospheric gas outflows are possibly shaped by stellar winds from Au Mic, which don’t allow all of the escaped gas to trail behind Au Mic b.
—Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 15 Aug. 2023
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