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[ US /ˈtɹeɪɫ/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈe‍ɪl/ ]
VERB
  1. drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground
    She trained her long scarf behind her
    The toddler was trailing his pants
  2. go after with the intent to catch
    the dog chased the rabbit
    The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
  3. hang down so as to drag along the ground
    The bride's veiled trailed along the ground
  4. move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly
    The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart
    John trailed behind his class mates
  5. to lag or linger behind
    But in so many other areas we still are dragging
NOUN
  1. a track or mark left by something that has passed
    there as a trail of blood
    a tear left its trail on her cheek
  2. a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country
  3. evidence pointing to a possible solution
    the police are following a promising lead
    the trail led straight to the perpetrator

How To Use trail In A Sentence

  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • This is dynamic - as the cursor moves, the input information trails along with it, changing as necessary.
  • It was built on the track of an elephant trail and it was so rough that it rattled our bones and sent the radio antenna into a series of harmonic wobbles.
  • Trailing edge vibration has been dampened by reinforcement with thin glass fibre rod inserts or mylar overlays, so eliminating excessive noise.
  • From beyond the doors, the hubbub still continued; but it trailed off, damped by the hush of those in front to a kind of shamefaced muttering. Funeral Games
  • Winter adds snowboarding, ice-skating, and cross-country and downhill skiing on the resort's groomed trails and ski slopes.
  • They sneak forward to climb up the small gap between the lorry 's cab and trailer. The Sun
  • Beyond the stand of trees, well away from the road, the hiking trail became dark.
  • The trails should provide a skiing flow so there aren't too many long uphills or sharp turns at the bottom of steep downhills.
  • Fuss' photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder.
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