tail
noun
the hindmost part of an animal, especially that forming a distinct, flexible appendage to the back end of its body.
were tailing
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past progressiveof tail.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Officers were tailing Reed on Nov. 5 when he got on an Amtrak train in Kansas City, Missouri, bound for St. Louis.
From Seattle Times ● May 28, 2022
The day before his arrest in 2018, DeAngelo weaved his motorcycle through freeway traffic to lose police who were tailing him, prosecutors said.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2020
Investigators were tailing DeAngelo and retrieved samples of his DNA, though they have not said where and how they found the genetic material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2018
Jones, for example, the Justice Department argued that the police did not violate the Fourth Amendment by attaching a GPS device to a car that they were tailing.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2014
Men were hastening aloft, and others were tailing on to the braces, tacks, and sheets.
From Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors: Tales of 1812 by Barnes, James
