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Example sentences for "trailed"

Lexicographically close words:
tragus; trahit; traian; traicte; trail; trailer; trailers; trailing; trailless; trails
  1. The Kai-na trailed in and set up their lodges just below us the next afternoon.

  2. The words were bold enough, but the girl's voice trailed off into a low, unsteady whisper, as terror at the rash plan which she had made and must now carry through caught at her heart.

  3. Her voice trailed off lamentably into a plea for kind treatment and gentleness.

  4. The moon, half-shadowed, trailed its silver robe Over the tower above the eastern gate, And there revealed the outlines of a skull Set on a spear.

  5. But what was this, that fastened to the ledge Trailed to the ground?

  6. From where they turned out and where the attack was made we back-trailed them in the road for nearly a mile.

  7. He trailed them until they bedded down, when he dismounted and examined every bed.

  8. A humane shot had relieved the poor beast, and his mate trailed up to the herd, tied behind the wagon with a rope.

  9. But Loving had driven it before, and knew fully what was before him as we trailed out under a noonday sun.

  10. By hanging a gate at the exit of the branding chute, a man sat overhead and by swinging it a variation of two feet, as the cattle trailed through the trough in single file, the herd was cut into two classes.

  11. The ranch outfit had held their own during the winter just passed, had trailed down stolen cattle, and knew to a certainty who the thieves were and where they came from.

  12. After the usual rest of a few days, the herd trailed up the Pecos with scarcely an incident worthy of mention.

  13. We trailed them westward nearly fifty miles, but, on being satisfied they were traveling night and day, turned back and continued our journey.

  14. The ladies were dressed gay, and splendid, and when dancing, their skirts and brocades rustled and trailed behind them!

  15. But I should like--" Her voice trailed off dreamily, her eyes on the hazy Highwoods.

  16. A brown lock of hair, clinging softly together with moisture, fell from his forehead and trailed in the clear water, and Beatrice felt oddly tempted to push it back where it belonged.

  17. I trailed at the heels of the Silver Gray--but Crusader was begging for halter And flew the wide ditch with the swoop of a bird, and on again, lapped on his quarter.

  18. His observations seemed eminently truthful; Allis's horse trailed farther and farther behind the others.

  19. He had business of his own and no desire to step to one side or another to deal with Swen Brodie or Andy Parker, or with any man who trailed his luck with such as these.

  20. A narrow track of aggressive cobblestones, amid which the sewage trailed its odours, wound between high, mouldy walls, and led from their dens to the foot of the Divine Image the sad, long procession of those who are not of the elect.

  21. Meanwhile, he trailed shocking old slippers through the mud of his Galician village, and arrayed himself in a greasy, ragged garment on which the far-spaced clean places stood out like spots.

  22. He trailed his lips, but did not seek her mouth, sitting down rather awkwardly and in the spread-kneed fashion he had.

  23. I was just wondering how Sir Lyster would look trying to win the war without clothes," and she trailed off into a splutter of laughter.

  24. I don't like being trailed in this fashion, so if it's any of your boys just you whistle 'em off.

  25. Tessie trailed her fingers in the water and told herself that she was having a grand time.

  26. A sad-looking group of men trailed in and made for a corner where certain bulky, shapeless bundles were soon revealed as those glittering and tortuous instruments which go to make a jazz band.

  27. The smoke from our funnel trailed across the purple canopy of the sky as though smeared with an inky brush.

  28. A light cloud of cigarette smoke trailed toward him as he entered, and when he paused, confused by broken little peals of laughter, he made out a group of ladies gathered about a tiny Oriental table upon which stood a tray of Turkish coffee.

  29. Her velvet gown trailed behind her, and she appeared perfectly unconcerned by the fact that she had sunk above her ankles in the heavy snowdrifts.

  30. Her voice trailed off, as if, the first burst of confidence over, she felt something that would lock her secret tighter in her breast.

  31. The edges gradually trailed off into an indistinct faintness.

  32. The sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill their two ridiculous shadows of unequal length, that trailed behind them slowly over the tall grass without bending a single blade.

  33. He kept hold on it though, and it trailed in the water.

  34. A servant trailed after them bearing a crystal decanter of wine and two silver goblets on a tray.

  35. Scorched furrows from the first Imperial cannonade trailed between, among, through the few remaining tents.

  36. Her voice trailed off as he looked up at her face.

  37. Her voice trailed off as she looked ahead.

  38. Arangbar's voice trailed off as he sipped on his wine and studied Hawksworth.

  39. Shirin's voice trailed off as she pondered the implications.

  40. Behind him trailed Father Pinheiro and the pudgy father Francisco da Silva, their attempts at poise marred by shifting, anxious glances of disquiet.

  41. Shirin's voice trailed off as she stared through a hole in the side of the howdah.

  42. Nadir Sharif trailed behind the royal couple, and after him came a few select officials of the court, including the qazi who would perform the ceremony and officially record the marriage.

  43. A frightened shout trailed out through the scuttles.

  44. Huyghen's voice trailed off as he morosely inspected the bottom of his tankard.

  45. Her voice trailed off as she watched Allaudin ensconce himself with a wide flourish against a velvet bolster.

  46. A phalanx of guards trailed behind him into the room, which he had claimed as his command post for the duration of his stay in Burhanpur.

  47. The Rajputs trailed behind them as they reached the top and passed under the shadow of a tulip-curved arch that framed the gateway.

  48. His voice trailed off as he turned to stare at Hawksworth.

  49. Her words trailed slowly again and her gaze sought the deep woods.

  50. I told him stories as we walked and showed him how the Indians trailed their game among the very hills over which we plodded.

  51. And I trailed over the country for four days, trying to find the girl in a brown suit that he'd described--said she was on her way to Arden.

  52. No; she didn't know I had them--didn't even know they existed and that she was being trailed as a suspected thief.

  53. The senile whine trailed off into a thin, abusive whimper.

  54. His pencil trailed lightly, without a sound, across the smooth paper.

  55. With you here----" His thin voice trailed off.

  56. Then rose I and laid in his pathway my cheek, as a carpet it were, For abjection, and trailed o'er my traces my skirts, to efface them from sight.

  57. What was the first skirt that trailed upon the surface of the earth?

  58. While they were still in uncertainty they saw advancing towards them through the garden two men clad in mourning robes so long and flowing that they trailed upon the ground.

  59. She had seen a setting like this on a stage one time, when a beautiful lady trailed down the steps of a Venetian palace to the gondola waiting in the lagoon below.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trailed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.