How to Use trail away/off in a Sentence

trail away/off

phrasal verb
Definition of trail away/offnext
  • There are good episodes, but the series as a whole doesn’t so much end as trail off.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • The man’s body was about 50 yards down a trail off Woodley, police said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • This 400-acre landmark can be reached via an eight-mile off-road trail off Route 6.
    — Abigail Bassett, Travel + Leisure, 7 Mar. 2022
  • If Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry trail off, there is no way for the team to move off those deals.
    — Rick Menning, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • McGrevy and her co-worker then ran down the trail away from the man, in the direction of Wolverine Peak.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2023
  • The conversation about Stranger Things will probably trail off over the course of the next month.
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • Winds are expected to trail off by the evening hours and there is a slight chance for showers on Tuesday.
    — Michelle Watson and Susannah Cullinane, CNN, 20 June 2022
  • There will be fantasy and magic, too, as the summer begins to fade and the movie blockbusters trail off.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2022
  • To find it, in-the-know hikers had to follow an obscure trail off Gazos Creek Road and navigate to an unmarked spur that led to the tree.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The Tigers started the game in control only to trail off in the second and third as Amoore got hot from the 3-point line and the Hokies settled into an easy rhythm.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The improvements would include relocating the trail away from the river and out of the floodplain, Kerr said.
    — Brian Slupski, chicagotribune.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The county also made efforts to move the mile-long trail away from the mounds in order to discourage people from walking on them.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2022
  • That may sound like good news, but most of the positive impact of the recovery of in-person services will trail off by early 2023.
    — Gad Levanon For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 25 Feb. 2022
  • But the power assist doesn't trail off at driving speeds; as a result, the steering effort stays light, which is at odds with the Sienna's sporty pretensions.
    — Mike Austin, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2023
  • De Haan expects the average to rise another 5 cents to 10 cents a gallon by the end of the week before starting to potentially trail off slightly.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 26 July 2023
  • And whereas many high-performance EVs feel very quick from 0–40 mph but soon begin to trail off as the speeds climb, the Rimac only pulls harder as the pace increases and the available traction ramps up in turn.
    — Bradley Iger, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This spur trail off the adjacent greenway carries you over some grassy wetlands with regenerating hardwoods and a cattail marsh.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This needs to be accounted for via a recommitment strategy; otherwise, the total exposure will trail off.
    — Peyton Carr, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Temperatures are likely to warm into the 50s over the weekend, but overcast skies will be the norm until Sunday, when chances for precipitation are projected to trail off and the sun may begin peeking through the clouds in Houston.
    — Dan Carson, Chron, 24 Feb. 2022
  • So far, nearly 6,300 people have expressed interest in the program, but the numbers trail off quickly from there, according to statistics from the city’s Economic Development Department.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Characters’ interior monologues come spilling out of their mouths, everyone speaks in an absurdist, hyper-intellectual register and conversations overlap or trail off, as if people are too overwhelmed or distracted to follow their own thoughts.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2022

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