Example sentences for: trailed

How can you use “trailed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • What made her famous is that she did all these things in one lifetime, like a paper doll that comes with different costumes for different vocations (the girl about town, the war correspondent, the ambassador); that she did them all and was beautiful; that she did them all in a perfumed cloud of scandal and glamour, trailed by many lovers and by gossip that she herself stoked with her acerbic tongue and her thirst for celebrity.

  • (The old $20s trailed only the $1 bills as a counterfeit cinch.)

  • One naughty leader after another trailed sadly through the courtrooms, to the delight of the dirty London tabloids.

  • George Bush, you may remember, trailed Gary Hart in 1987 polls, and Newsweek even ran a cover story about Bush and "the wimp factor."

  • It took him till his mid-40s to settle down, but now that he has he is making up for his lost years and surpassing the father he has so long trailed.


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