Trailing Sentence Examples

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  • Your communiqué—" "Is this real?" one of the men trailing asked in surprise.

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  • Gerry asked, trailing her into the condo.

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  • He chuckled again and glanced back at the others, who were trailing behind.

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  • There are four sections in the game, namely, drawing, guarding, trailing and driving.

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  • It was Lydia's trailing smoke that floated it to life.

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  • Finally a trailing ivy will set off the container.

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  • Don't forget the trailing slash at the end.

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  • He touched her, trailing his hands down her arms.

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  • He maneuvered past the two trailing guards and slowed his horse behind Sirian.

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  • Mick, trailing behind with Penny, called over his shoulder, "Why don't you just round up all of Shipton's enemies, rent a stadium and interview them?"

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  • Dread sinking into her stomach, Jessi obeyed, the other thugs trailing her.

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  • A convenient way of describing any type of engine is by means of numerals indicating the number of wheels - (I) in the group of wheels supporting the leading or chimney end, (2) in the group of coupled wheels, and (3) in the group supporting the trailing end of the engine.

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  • The creeping or trailing type is a common one, as in the English bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), which has also a tendency to climb, and Calystegia Soldanella, the sea-bindweed, the long creeping stem of which forms a sandbinder on English seashores; a widespread and efficient tropical sand-binder is Ipomaea Pes-Caprae.

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  • He squints against smoke trailing from the cigarette butt, hanging limp from his mouth.

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  • The blades are an effective solution for printers that use trailing edge squeegees.

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  • A cavalcade of overstuffed SUVs filters back through bridge and tunnel trailing Kate Spade beach bags and pedigree pooch accouterments.

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  • Ian studied the tiny moving speck of life, dashing around the web, trailing a thin strand of silk.

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  • The trailing edge squeegee is inherently more flexible than the diamond squeegee, thus conforming better and more uniformly with uneven substrate surfaces.

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  • These pipes lead to a network of small pipes that ended in the trailing edges of the wings and horizontal stabilizers.

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  • Every now and then a horse comes staggering along the towing-path, trailing a sleepy barge filled with merchandise.

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  • Present techniques share more in common with astronomers randomly trailing the sky for new supernovae.

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  • The big trout trigger points on this fly are the trailing pheasant tail legs, which identify this fly to the fish.

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  • Saari's delicately colored hats, trailing long tendrils, bring fantasy and a touch of fairytale.

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  • In this case the testpiece monitoring thermocouple must have sufficiently long trailing leads to accommodate the opening of the furnace.

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  • Two additional sidings eventually transpired on the ' ' down ' ' side, trailing off to the west of the platforms.

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  • However they always show blackish underwings with a white trailing edge, which can be a good identification clue, even at long distance.

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  • The belt is quite narrow, trailing off into clay vales along the southern or eastern dip slopes.

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  • The vortex patterns correspond to the intersection of the laser sheet with the trailing, helical vortices from the turbine blades.

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  • These are usually whitish in color, and there may be yellowish mucus trailing from them.

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  • Tom's Hydra took off, and then there was a big whoosh and something flew off, trailing smoke.

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  • The object at the bottom left is the trailing edge of the starboard wing.

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  • All values must be given to the correct precision, including trailing zeros.

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  • The shores of the larger islands are fringed in some parts with a dense barrier of mangroves, backed by an often impenetrable thicket of tropical undergrowth, which, as the ridges are ascended, give place to taller trees and deep green bushes which are covered with orchids and trailing moss (orchilla), and from which creepers hang down interlacing the vegetation.

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  • In the case where either the leading or trailing group of small wheels is absent the numeral o must be used in the series of three numbers used in the description.

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  • With use of imaging, the trailing end of the wire is located and is withdrawn until its end reaches the distal scaphoid cortex.

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  • The difference between the trailing ends of both wires shown in the photograph on the left is the scaphoid length.

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  • Of all things in the world it fell on my ears like the trailing of silken robes - soft in sound, yet rustling.

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  • Do n't forget the trailing slash at the end.

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  • Tears streamed from his eyes, drifting backward through the slipstream created by his wings like a rain of sadness trailing through the sky.

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  • Mustoe made a rather silly tackle on the edge of the box, leaving his trailing leg out for Ben Fitch to fly over.

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  • Saari 's delicately colored hats, trailing long tendrils, bring fantasy and a touch of fairytale.

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  • The return status is always 0. If -n is specified, the trailing newline is suppressed.

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  • The text is a string with leading and trailing whitespace stripped; if the source is not available it is None.

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  • A trailing slash may or may not be required, depending on the program.

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  • Or alternatively can utilize optional wireless technology to save trailing wires around the house.

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  • Other whirlwinds The third grouping, other whirlwinds, includes those such as trailing vortices.

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  • Tom 's Hydra took off, and then there was a big whoosh and something flew off, trailing smoke.

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  • With the wingtip missile rails removed and the trailing edge reshaped they are almost a perfect match.

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  • Tie on additional lengths of ribbon with trailing ends and then curl each ribbon strand.

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  • A classic yellow Easter dress with puffy sleeves is included here as well, with smocked white ducklings trailing the center of it.

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  • Bear-berry (Arctostaphylos) - Mostly trailing alpine evergreen of the Heath order, of which few are in cultivation.

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  • A. alpina, the Black Bearberry, has trailing stems and white or flesh-colored flowers.

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  • Sea Bindweed (Convolvulus Soldanella) - A distinct trailing species with fleshy leaves; flowering in summer, pale red, and handsome in the rock garden, if planted so that its shoots droop over stones.

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  • Trailing or half-shrubby herbs, the one best worth growing being the native L. corniculatus, which occurs in almost every meadow or pasture, forming tufts of yellow flowers with the upper part often red on the outside.

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  • Bog Arum (Calla) - C. palustris is a small, hardy, trailing Arum, with white spathes.

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  • Commonly called raspberries, brambles plants are deciduous or semi-evergreen, trailing and often prickly shrubs which form a complex group known as Rubus fruticosus.

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  • Sometimes it rises from 15 to 20 feet high, but some of its varieties are only low-spreading or trailing shrubs.

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  • Silene Hookeri - A dwarf and rare Californian, with downy leaves of two different shaped, trailing stems, and large deeply-notched rose-colored flowers 2 inches across.

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  • They have slender trailing stems, and flowers generally blue.

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  • It has a fine effect in rich deep soil in the rock garden, where its trailing stems can droop over the ledge of a block of stone.

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  • It thrives in a warm or peaty soil, and is best seen trailing over shrubs.

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  • Such a position, too, would exactly suit the trailing habit of some.

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  • Codonopsis Bulleyi - A trailing species found by Mr Forrest when plant-hunting in China.

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  • Crosswort (Phuopsis) - A pretty little hardy perennial of trailing habit, with heads of pale rosy flowers in early spring.

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  • Cup-flower (Scyphanthus) - S. elegans is a beautiful slender climber, 5 to 8 feet high, with forked stems, and valuable for trailing over a trellis or against a wall.

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  • Deer Berry (Mitchella) - M. repens is a neat, trailing, small evergreen herb, 2 or 3 inches high, with white flowers in summer, succeeded by small bright red berries.

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  • Hemiphragma - H. heterophylla, is a dwarf trailing plant of the Figwort family, bearing inconspicuous flowers, succeeded by bright red berries about the size of small peas, on slender creeping stems.

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  • Jalap Plant (Exogonium) - A graceful perennial trailing plant, none more beautiful among climbing plants than E. purga, and of its hardiness there can be little doubt.

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  • It thrives in the open air in summer, and is a beautiful plant for festooning old stumps, or for trailing over dead branches placed against a warm south wall.

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  • Madeira Vine (Boussingaultia) - B. baselloides is a luxuriant trailing plant of the Spinach order with shoots 16 to 20 feet long, flowering late in autumn, the flowers small, white, fragrant, and becoming black as they fade.

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  • Suited only for dry banks and chalk-pits, associated with climbing and trailing plants.

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  • Samolus - S. littoralis is a pretty trailing plant, with long slender stems, small evergreen foliage, and numerous pink blossoms in summer.

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  • S. procumbens is a hardy annual from Mexico, with trailing branches and bright yellow flowers.

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  • These kinds are S. denticulata, S. helvetica, and S. rupestris, small trailing plants of a delicate green, mossy growth.

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  • America, and valuable for its rapid twining growth, for trailing over trelliswork and arbours.

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  • Trefoil (Trifolium) - Among the few garden varieties are some dwarf creeping kinds, the best being T. uniflorum from Syria, a neat trailing plant with pink and white flowers, borne singly, and studded profusely over the plant.

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  • Cohort-2, born 1955-1964, sometimes called the "shadow" or "trailing edge" Boomers.

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  • Mortal Kombat is probably the second most recognizable fighting game franchise of all-time, trailing only behind the legendary Street Fighter.

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  • A pair of scissors can trim trailing threads and bandages, and if you bring a needle and thread, you can reattach a swimsuit strap or fix an embarrassing hole right in the restroom, changing room, or cabana.

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  • Use a pretty mini natural canvas tote bag to hold a potted trailing vine or flowering plant.

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  • These designs can also be seen trailing down the necks and shoulders of the Maori and also adorning their chests.

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  • Picture those triangular leaves set along trailing tendrils of greenery.

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  • A rose tattoo meant to convey this message might consist of white rose buds linked around your ankle with a trailing vines.

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  • Myspace.com has become the third most visited Web site in the world in only three years (trailing closely behind Yahoo! and Google).

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  • It will now only look for the string " he " that has trailing and leading spaces.

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  • His phone rang again, and he answered, trailing Bianca to an elevator.

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  • She sped away, and they took off up the driveway with the swordsman trailing.

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  • They waited for Xander to return with the three vamps trailing him.

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  • Jule ignored the three men trailing them and ushered her into the armored Tahoe.

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  • He didn't look to be in a mood for questions, so she hurried past him to her room, Pierre trailing.

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  • He walked around her, trailing his hand around her midsection.

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  • Cynthia, trailing a few steps behind, bumped into him as they stopped and stared at the gaping opening.

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  • Dean followed close behind, with Fred O'Connor trailing.

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  • She wandered through the room, trailing her fingers across the tables.

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  • She trotted to catch up to them, trailing.

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  • The odd sense of someone following – a sign she now knew was the phantom trailing them - returned.

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  • With a quick glance to make sure none of his father's men paid him any heed, Taran stole away to the far side of the beach, trailing the barbarian youth.

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  • Many trees offer magnificent displays of flowers at certain seasons of the year; perhaps the loveliest effect is derived from the bushes and trailing creepers of the Combretum genus, which, during the "winter" months from December to March, cover the scrub and the forest with mantles of rose colour.

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  • The points over which a train travels when directed from the main to a branch line are called " facing points " (F P), while those which it passes when running from a branch to a main line are " trailing points " (TP).

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  • The drivingwheels are coupled to a pair of trailing wheels.

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  • The low-pressure cylinders drive on the leading crank-axle with cranks at right angles, the highpressure cylinders driving on the trailing wheels.

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  • Thus 4-4-2 represents a bogie engine with four-coupled wheels and one pair of trailing wheels, the wellknown Atlantic type; 4-2-2 represents a bogie engine with a single pair of driving-wheels and a pair of trailing wheels; 0-4-4 represents an engine with four-coupled wheels and a trailing bogie, and 4-4-o an engine with four-coupled wheels and a leading bogie.

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  • By trailing a thread behind them spiders are able to drop from any height to the ground and to retrace their steps with certainty to a particular spot.

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  • His subjects were ordered to worship him under the name of Zeus; he built a bridge of brass, over which he drove at full speed in his chariot to imitate thunder, the effect being heightened by dried skins and caldrons trailing behind, while torches were thrown into the air to represent lightning.

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  • He was enrolled as a volunteer in Apsley's company, then encamped before Genep on the Waal, but his commission was apparently complimentary, his military experience being limited to six days of camp life, during which, however, he took his turn at "trailing a pike."

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  • The glochidium quits the gillpouch of its parent and swims by alternate opening and shutting of the valves of its shell, as do adult Pecten and Lima, trailing at the same time a long byssus thread.

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  • Cneorum (Europe) is a hardy evergreen trailing shrub, with bright pink sweet-scented flowers.

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  • Training is a procedure adopted when it is required to grow plants in a limited area, or in a particular shape, as in the case of many plants of trailing habit.

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  • In the cavities between the stones, filled with earth, alpine or trailing plants are inserted,.

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  • Nummularia, much used for trailing over rockeries and window boxes, with bright yellow flowers.

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  • Constantly moving through Poitou and the Limousin, as the exigencies of the civil war required, occasionally taking his turn as a guard, at least on one occasion trailing a pike on an expedition against the Leaguers, with no access to libraries, and frequently separated even from his own books, his life during this period seems most unsuited to study.

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  • During this time he could hear "the trailing garments of the night sweep through her marble halls," and see "the stars come out to listen to the music of the seas."

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  • The species of Sphenophyllum have a graceful appearance, which has been compared with that of the trailing Galiums of hedgerows.

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  • Palms, referred to i i species, are found, though they seem to have decreased in abundance; of them 7 are fan-palms, the others including Phoenicites - a form allied to the date - and a trailing palm, Calamopsis, allied to the canes and rattans.

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  • Sofia went, trailing them down a hall with antiseptic-laced air to an open bay with beds separated by curtains.

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  • She sighed and followed him, almost too exhausted to argue.  The odd sense of someone following – a sign she now knew was the phantom trailing them - returned.

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  • Ashley hesitated then softly told the vampire goodnight before trailing.

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  • Color in a Basket These flowering baskets are full of trailing begonias.

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  • How can I open a file with a leading " gt " or trailing blanks?

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  • Remedy defect in hanger on left side of trailing bogie.

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  • A series of trailing commas may also be omitted.

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  • The flukes are broad, do not have a median notch, and have concave trailing edges.

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  • Viewed from the end of platform 2, the remains of the yard and trailing crossover can once more be seen.

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  • Note that the name must include the trailing delimiter (' / ' on Unix systems ).

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  • If there are any trailing directory delimiter characters, they are removed.

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  • I was quite amazed when I saw a tiny duckling trailing her into the kitchen and over to her food bowl.

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  • The ball itself was spinning, but was also moving back and forth across the trailing edge of the FT.

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  • A cable protector is necessary where there is trailing flex.

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  • Angel was winning, flying through the air with her blond hair trailing, triumph in her face, eyes victorious.

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  • Iapetus's north pole is not visible here, nor is any part of the bright trailing hemisphere.

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  • Trailing by 7 at the half, Coventry's spirited squad took the game by five points at the final hooter.

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  • Trailing in fourth comes Ronaldo, who despite some frustratingly inconsistent performances still produced moments of magic during the season.

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  • Some climbing plants when not supported become trailing plants (English ivy ).

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  • My ideal is red pelargonium and white marguerites, set in a bed of trailing blue lobelia.

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  • Tail flukes are pointed at the tips with a concave trailing edge and a deep median notch.

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  • My employment out of doors now was to collect the dead wood in the forest, bringing it in my hands or on my shoulders, or sometimes trailing a dead pine tree under each arm to my shed.

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  • And perhaps at evening I see the hunters returning with a single brush trailing from their sleigh for a trophy, seeking their inn.

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  • Now they drew close to the fox which began to dodge between the field in sharper and sharper curves, trailing its brush, when suddenly a strange white borzoi dashed in followed by a black one, and everything was in confusion; the borzois formed a star-shaped figure, scarcely swaying their bodies and with tails turned away from the center of the group.

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  • Cultivars with a trailing growth habit require trellising.

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  • His eyes spotted the form he sought, and he wove his way through the crowd, trailing her down a quiet side street.

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  • At stations the points that give access to sidings are generally arranged as trailing points with respect to the direction of traffic on the main lines; that is, trains cannot pass direct into sidings, but have to stop and then run backwards into them.

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  • In still rarer cases both a leading and a trailing bogie have been fitted.

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  • She leaned against him, her hand trailing down his chest and settling on his crotch.

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  • He quoted, trailing hot kisses along her collarbone.

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  • Her hands were soon roaming his body curiously, resting on his jaw and trailing along his neck.

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