tailgated

past tense of tailgate

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailgated
Verb
  • In Erling Haaland and Gianluigi Donnarumma, Manchester City are top and tailed by arguably the best in their positions in the country.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Johnson tailed her from Calvary Church to her home that Sunday morning.
    Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Hansen Yang – hounded by over a dozen Chinese media members there to chronicle his every move – launched jumpers while Mandarin pop songs blared through the arena.
    Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The search for answers grew more desperate after Payne, wracked with grief and hounded by reporters, died by suicide near the very spot where Mary’s body had been found.
    Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Towering canyon walls rise on either side of the river, while the cave itself is a small, shadowed recess in the rock.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
  • But some skeptics continue to believe the interpreter may have taken a fall to protect the player or the league, which is still shadowed by both all-time-hits leader Pete Rose’s gambling saga in the 1980s as well as the Black Sox World Series conspiracy fix of 1919.
    Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Chicago had led or been tied through two periods in nine of its first 10 games, and only trailed Los Angeles by one entering the third.
    Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The zebras pranced, all frisky energy; the elephants, lumbering and mournful, trailed behind with their ancient thoughts.
    AFAR Media, AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Tailgated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailgated. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.

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