Trailing

"Ah, the trailing group has arrived." "Oh no. They caught up with us while we were resting."

But soon their skins turned cold, for there came a sound of galloping across the moor, and the black mare, dabbled with white froth, went past with trailing bridle and empty saddle.

A long black shadow was trailing down the corridor. It was thrown by a man who walked softly down the passage with a candle held in his hand.

Scarce spake the sire when lo, to leftward crashed / a peal of thunder, and amid the night / a sky-dropt star athwart the darkness flashed, / trailing its torchfire with a stream of light.

Birds maiden-faced, but trailing filth obscene, / with taloned hands and looks for ever pale and lean.

The roads are becoming less traveled, the restaurants emptier, and ordinary stores are seeing foot-fall trailing off — even in towns with no confirmed cases for hundreds of miles around.

Tom is trailing in the polls.

She watched the nib of her pen glide around the surface of the page, an inky line trailing behind it.

With only a minute to go before full-time and his team trailing by two goals, Tom hoofed the ball towards the opposition penalty area.

We found our way accidentally, trailing a dog walker during our allowed hour-long daily exercise.