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trail English

Meaning trail meaning

What does trail mean?
Definitions in simple English

trail

A trail is a way to get to a place, usually made of dirt and used by hikers or horse riders. That trail leads into the woods. A trail is a path that is followed by a hunter.

trail

If you trail someone, you follow that person. If you don't know the way you can trail me when I go. The thief must have trailed me home. If you trail something, you drag it or drop it behind you. If you leave a trail of something, you leave material behind as you move. The snail left a trail of slime. The tail of a comet is trailing gas and dust.

trail

(= drag) to lag or linger behind But in so many other areas we still are dragging a track or mark left by something that has passed there as a trail of blood a tear left its trail on her cheek a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country (= chase, dog, go after) go after with the intent to catch The policeman chased the mugger down the alley the dog chased the rabbit (= lead) evidence pointing to a possible solution the police are following a promising lead the trail led straight to the perpetrator hang down so as to drag along the ground The bride's veiled trailed along the ground move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly John trailed behind his class mates The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart (= train) drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground The toddler was trailing his pants She trained her long scarf behind her

Synonyms trail synonyms

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Conjugation trail conjugation

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trail · verb

Examples trail examples

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Simple sentences

There is a trail that goes through the forest.
All creatures drink joy at the breast of nature; all good, all evil follow her trail of roses.
Boys trail girls in language skills.
The river flows into the Bay of Fundy near St. Martins, New Brunswick, and serves as the endpoint of the Fundy Trail.
Where does this trail lead?
Tom used his machete to clear the trail.

Movie subtitles

It would've taken a lot of force or something pretty hefty to get it out of there, and there was no trail.
There was no kind of like a trail of where it could've been dragged to.
Well, the trail has gone cold, but I am not one to give up.
Then I found a paper trail.
I want to get to Hope Valley before it's too dark to see the trail.
The fiddler's wife has followed the trail of the missing man with her son Arpad, and stayed to live in the village, where the fiddler had last paused.
Hot on the trail.
They left behind them a trail of pain.
Mingo would follow this trail, Mr Helius!
They taught me how to follow a trail by watching the leaves.
And the other is a little personal business I aim to transact at the end ofthe trail.
Windy's gone on another trail.
Well, Zeke, I'm gonna trail the lnjuns and make sure they go back to their villages.
We're blazing' a trail that started in England.
At this very moment, we're on the trail of one of those cyborgs.
By the animal trail.
You trail behind and knock him out when the time comes.
The other is a little personal business I aim to transact at the end of the trail.
Well, Zeke. Ol' Windy's gone on another trail.
Well, Zeke, I'm gonna trail the Injuns and make sure they go back to their villages.
Well, we all get off on the wrong trail once in a while.
We're blazing a trail that started in England.
And now we've picked up the trail again, and nothing can stop us!
No great trail was ever blazed without hardship.
I been on their trail ever since.
They've jumped camp, Zeke, and I'm off on their trail.
Well, Zeke, I'll see 'em to the end of the trail.
In the afternoon, you have to go for a walk with the public at Namsan's pine wood trail.
But. Chief Secretary, for the contributions, you can see what to do about it, and as for going for a walk at Namsan's pine wood trail, you also know.
Tell him I'm on the trail of something similar.
But she leaves a hot trail behind her.
We'll set him a trail he'll remember.
I'm phoning your office so they can send out a man to trail him.
Trail him?
Trail who?
Then you threw that note in at my window hoping to throw me off your trail.
One trail leads to Sydney.
Don't tell me there are more detectives on my trail. There probably are, hundreds.
Now, trail him slow.

News and current affairs

Modern technology makes it easy to have a paper trail for voting machines, at little cost; yet several states chose not to provide this minimal safeguard.
The idea that either side can crush the other and declare victory has proven to be a seductive and dangerous mirage, leaving behind only a trail of blood and hate.
WASHINGTON, DC - When India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, was on the campaign trail, he promised to improve the way the country is governed.
But this promising start follows a long trail of failures to create inflation futures, owing to the public's lack of interest.
In fact, most observers on the scene believed that there was a long paper trail, from the polling sites all the way to Nairobi, which could be re-assessed in detail.
We know from a long trail of documents, memoirs, and interviews that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a pretext.
These leaders have blazed a trail for future advocates, but there are far too few of them.
As a result, house prices collapsed, leaving a trail of zombie banks (whose liabilities far exceeded their assets) and ruined borrowers.
As things stand now, the German economy lags behind most others in Europe, and almost all European economies trail Britain and the United States.
Their leader outshines his Conservative and Labour counterparts in television debates and on the campaign trail.

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