Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailgating
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Starting for the first time in three weeks and for the first time in left field in nearly two months, Johnson laid out to catch a sinking, tailing line drive by Christian Yelich for the first out of the ninth inning.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Sep. 2025 -
Also, look at recycling and tailing supply sources, not only mining.—
Brendon Grunewald,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Already, productivity declines are dogging the industry.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
10 Sep. 2025
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Great cornerbacks are football’s tawny owls, the biggest of the big-game hunters, dogging prey through darkness and chaos.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
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Hauser plays Pug Browder, a violent and unpredictable figure shadowing Eddy’s chaotic stumble through Austin’s criminal underworld.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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First by shadowing a refugee smuggler and some refugees preparing to trek through the treacherous Darién Gap rainforest.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Sep. 2025
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The former is the owner of a New York City hotspot; the latter is a man on the run from loan sharks, with heaps of personal issues and bad debts hounding him.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Inappropriate client interaction such as hounding a woman to come over to his house late at night and slipshod work that ended with a grandmother’s eviction got a Daytona Beach attorney suspended from his law career for two years.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Sep. 2025
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The Phillies entered the ninth trailing 4-1 and quickly reminded the Dodgers why their bullpen concerns are so loud.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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These species spread by trailing roots or rhizomes to form clumps.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Tailgating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailgating. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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