How to Use go after in a Sentence

go after

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  • Why go after both guys who were putting on a banger of a match?
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 July 2026
  • Still, the bigger issue is where that data can go after it is saved.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
  • The hackers were not going after a research lab or a test AI.
    John Caruso, Hartford Courant, 20 Aug. 2026
  • The coach must have wanted someone to be a pest going after quarterbacks with his lack of size.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Police are looking for surveillance video that captured where the tow truck went after the crash.
    Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Advocates are raising concerns about where people will go after the camp is cleared.
    Beret Leone, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Let's hope now that the state authorities will go after that and really bring justice to this.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • With air defenses weakened, Ukraine then went after supply lines.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 4 July 2026
  • The Padres can’t be accused of not going after the Dodgers with great gusto, year after year.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2026
  • When a beloved brand goes after businesses a fraction of its size, the public doesn't see trademark enforcement.
    Allen Adamson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Again and again, Bass went after Raman in the pettiest, most personal ways.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
  • This case may have reached its conclusion, but the EU isn’t done going after Big Tech.
    Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 2 July 2026
  • Cary admits that thinking his mother would go after him and not Lucky was a miscalculation.
    Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • That is why investigators must go after the money and companies, not just the gunmen.
    Robert Muggah, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Her imagination was so captivating, and it was completely gone after six months.
    Sheila Heti, The New York Review of Books, 21 July 2026
  • The Fever backup guard then bounced up and went after Carrington as their teammates tried to separate the players.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The announcement could go after the one about what to do if the theater is overrun by period instrumentalists.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Because when a health crisis occurs, the greatest challenge is often not determining where assets go after death.
    John Samuels, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Carrington came in contact with Cunningham’s neck while going after the ball during a breakaway play in the first quarter.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Owens immediately went after Balor and Gunther while Zayn stood in the ring shocked.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Keeping the party going after the final whistle Don’t let the experience end when the scoreboard goes dark.
    Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 14 July 2026
  • After terrorizing that one kid, the bird reportedly went after a few other teenage footballers to the point that the referee had to put the match on hold.
    Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Then Harbaugh got fired in Baltimore and the Giants went after the coach as hard as he’s been coaching up his team in training camp.
    Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Messi, in the early stages, went after a loose ball against Algeria, only to catch Aissa Mandi with his studs up.
    Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • The law goes after Glock-style pistols, which can be converted into fully-automatic machine guns.
    Gavin J. Quinton, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • For surviving family members, that can raise the question of whether a creditor can go after the deceased person's house, even if the family hoped to keep it.
    Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Cunningham, 29, then bounced up and went after Carrington as their teammates tried to separate the players.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The overarching goal appears to be not just going after progressive groups, but ensuring reductions in civil legal aid per se.
    David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 23 July 2026
  • Eager as the women are to nab a serial killer, going after the network’s Epstein-like billionaire ringleader proves even more tempting.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
  • Bands of vigilantes went after the animals with cricket bats or swerved deliberately to run them over, but the toads continued their relentless spread.
    Kimon De Greef, Longreads, 4 Aug. 2026

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