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Meanings of shadowing in English

Tailing.

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Examples for "tailing"
Examples for "tailing"
1
I was just tailing you, hoping you'd lead me to Ms. Bonner.
Keeping christmas
2
He's probably got someone tailing after the cab right now, just watching.
The inconvenient bride
3
We're better off watching Joseph and tailing anyone he has contact with.
Act of will
4
I was tailing a gent who was playing games off the reservation.
Stop Look and Dig
5
Sean had built his business on tailing cheating spouses and deadbeat dads.
The mighty quinns: liam
Usage of shadowing in English
1
The one-day course will include safety guidelines, work shadowing, mini-companies and co-operatives.
The Irish Times
2
As far as Commander Sool knows, you are simply shadowing the suspects.
Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony
3
A third way is to adopt alternative approaches, including shadowing and coaching.
The Guardian
4
The FSA has also been shadowing executive committee meetings at investment banks.
Reuters
5
There was no reason to believe someone would be shadowing him here.
Don't Cry Tai Lake
6
There's another hellhawk shadowing me, making sure I do what I'm told.
The Naked God
7
The night was star-bright above the canyon-walls, darkly shadowing down between them.
The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border
8
Shasta, my boy, I do believe there's someone shadowing us at last.
The horse and his boy
9
Then we talked of my calm paintings, shadowing deeper lonelinesses in them.
Tales of the Chesapeake
10
If he waited, Ironfist would be back, shadowing him wherever he went.
The black prism
11
After in-house training and shadowing, she started doing visits on her own.
The Guardian
12
The ejected one stood watching us with sorrow shadowing his large eyes.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
13
Doc, stealthy and wild-eyed, was shadowing her steps among the spirea bushes.
Rilla of Ingleside
14
I knew something was up when we discovered that fellow shadowing Wadleigh.
Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist; Or, Dudie Dunne Agai...
15
He wondered if perhaps they had got tired of shadowing his movements.
A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today
16
Ultrasonographic examination revealed an irregularly-shaped hypoechoic lesion with marked posterior acoustical shadowing.
Pubmed
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Shadowing across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common