trailing

How To Use trailing In A Sentence

• The pilots took it up to 1000-ft or so and released the fire retardant that smothered the fire and left only smoke trailing out.
• Trailing edge vibration has been dampened by reinforcement with thin glass fibre rod inserts or mylar overlays, so eliminating excessive noise.
• The sending was still trailing after her with a surcoat folded over its arm. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
• This child spent his first eleven years in San Francisco, trailing his father up and down the hills, watching him swim in San Francisco Bay, and cringing from the blows that a drunken dad might aim at his head. Robert Frost
• With the hippogryph trailing her, Tyrande led Broll to the nearest of the dwellings. WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE
• the 8th inning found the home team trailing
• ‘Thank you, sire,’ she said in a bow before trailing after the two scouts in silence.
• She wears a dark hat, its swath of auburn feather trailing down her back.
• She stood up from the table, trailing her finger along the dust that had accumulated on the kitchen counter.
• For a while, an hour and a half, though she did not know it, until the men came in from the fields trailing dust and slapping their stomachs, Rupban clutched Cheepy-cheepy's limp and bony neck and said only "Coming, coming" to all inquiries about the bird. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali