- present participle of trail.
trailing
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Then the two men walked arm-in-arm while a band played the Stars and Stripes, and Turkish air force jets performed a flypast overhead, trailing red, white and blue smoke.
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2026
It was England’s first World Cup victory after trailing 1-0 since the 1966 final, which the English team won as a tournament host.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2026
Children linger in the narrow shade cast by the huts, some too tired to play, others trailing silently after their mothers.
From Barron's • Jun. 29, 2026
To construct it, I divided all months since 1947 into four groups, depending on how each month’s trailing 12-month CPI inflation rate compared with where it stood a year previously.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 29, 2026
Before long she was crawling all over the place, following her father into the fields, trailing me as I went about my work, and very soon she began to walk.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
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