How to Use follow suit in a Sentence

follow suit

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  • Once one of them profits from it in a movie, others will have no choice but to follow suit.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • Now Bowen can follow suit and add to his list of growing achievements.
    Roshane Thomas, New York Times, 17 July 2026
  • Dess Dior followed suit in a pair of metallic silver sandals.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • School funding has increased sharply since the turn of the century, but test scores have not followed suit.
    Dan Walters, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
  • Leadership has followed suit, driven by the need to control outcomes and stay ahead of crises.
    Denielle Sachs, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • The biggest equipment companies in the game are starting to follow suit.
    Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 9 July 2026
  • This pair follows suit with two side stripes in varying color combinations.
    Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • Once James makes his decision, remaining free agents will follow suit.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 17 July 2026
  • And yet Baum doesn't anticipate many other schools will follow suit.
    Lauren Sausser, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Russia has already begun filling this gap with glide bombs, and Ukraine is now following suit.
    Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Apple raised prices of Macs and iPads, and others are expected to follow suit.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 14 July 2026
  • Nearby Portland has become known for its many food trucks, and Tillamook has followed suit.
    Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 27 June 2026
  • Should the Senate follow suit, there goes my excuse for skipping church one Sunday each spring.
    Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
  • The two miniseries have, in my view, successfully followed suit, enthralling audiences in each of their times.
    Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Let authors continue to write dangerous women who refuse to be broken, then, for the love of god, may real life follow suit.
    Ashley Winstead, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
  • Since then, Swifties have followed suit by making their own charitable gifts to causes the couple supports.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 17 July 2026
  • If these eight matches follow suit of the previous round, there should be late heroics and plenty of drama in the Round of 32.
    Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • However, there’s some scenarios where IDEM won’t have to follow suit.
    Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026
  • Starr said his group supports the recommendation from city staff to deny the request and the City Council should follow suit.
    Dylan Lysen, Kansas City Star, 9 July 2026
  • Three months later, Gemini, the centralized exchange led by the Winklevoss twins, followed suit.
    Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • Alexa Chung followed suit in the years after, helping to cement Repetto’s status among a new generation.
    Augustine Hammond, Vogue, 13 July 2026
  • If one of the tours cuts down on the number of mandatory events, or one of the Grand Slams ratchets up its payouts, the others might feel compelled to follow suit.
    Josh Levin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
  • Other top watchmakers swiftly followed suit, with blue dials becoming a staple across collections.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 July 2026
  • So, while demand for munitions can surge rapidly, procurement typically can’t always follow suit—with lead times often spanning two to four years.
    Jean-Louis Rassineux, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • As the piano arches into a sparkling glissando, a harp follows suit, carving out space for a light, airy synthesizer drone to materialize.
    Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 13 July 2026
  • Her male cub followed suit, and the two cheetahs began to creep toward a herd of unsuspecting Thomson’s gazelles, grazing about 100 yards away.
    Elizabeth Cantrell, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2026
  • The rest of the season followed suit, delivering Teri's (Enuka Okuma) apocalypse story, and so much more.
    Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
  • Unsurprisingly, other luxury brands and high street retailers quickly followed suit.
    Sarah Leigh Bannerman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026
  • Many modern brides now wear different outfits for the ceremony and reception, and reporting from Page Six implies that Swift will follow suit.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 1 July 2026
  • Karlin, for his part, framed the Lilly deal as validation for the whole category rather than a signal that Definium needs to follow suit immediately.
    Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

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