What is "tailed"

Usage examples of "tailed".

Then there were the infrequent strange, tailed glitterers that moved across the dark over a period of months, growing then shrinking, and then were gone.

The thought that Sebastian or someone else had tailed them, watched as they sat in the car and kept an eye out for Goldilocks, seemed unbelievable.

Hands tailed on the jears, hoist- ing the yards to their full erect positions on the masts.

Plotted against Poles killed off by kielbasa, or Belgians done in by pommes frites, or Anglo-Saxons disappeared by puddings, or Spaniards stopped cold by chorizo, our Greek dotted line kept going where theirs tailed off in a tangle of downward trajectories.

Slowing down to five miles per hour, the vehicles were tailed by hundreds of men, women, and children insulting the Nip prisoners in Tagalog, Ilocan dialect, and pidgeon Japanese.

Somewhere in the room a scream tailed off into a choking, retching sound.

The last thing he saw and heard was the judge sentencing the pony tailed redhead to three jumps on the displacement ships, also under the tutorage of the Tremaine Corporation.

Tailed by scuffling gamins, the strange little procession moved quickly down the wynd and turned into the roaring Cowgate.

Then she tailed him back to the Vier Jahreszeiten, took a taxi back to her flat, and put in a long-distance call to the Metropole Hotel on Lake Como.

Hence, all the smaller, spouting and horizontal tailed fish must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology.

Flocks of long tailed birds swarmed over them, probing their curved beaks deeply into the flowers.

Isaac heard a peal of absurd giggles from the retreating form, a thin wittering cluck that tailed out in the darkness.

Bewildered, Aldora regarded the thousands of horseswhites, grays, bays, chestnuts, sorrels, roans, claybanks and blacks with occasional pintos, piebalds and that flaxen-maned and tailed variety of golden-chestnut known as palomino.

The last thing he saw and heard was the judge sentencing the pony tailed redhead to three jumps on the displacement ships, also under the tutorage of the Tremaine Corporation.

When a police Range Rover tailed her from Walsall to the M42 turn-off, she almost sent her own car into the crash barriers at the centre of the road.