Word Finder - following

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To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction.

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Follow that car!

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To go or come after in a sequence.

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B follows A in the alphabet.

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To carry out (orders, instructions, etc.).

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Follow these instructions to the letter.

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To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc).

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To understand, to pay attention to.

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Do you follow me?

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To watch, to keep track of (reports of) some event or person.

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I followed the incumbent throughout the election.

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To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform.

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If you want to see more of our articles, follow us on Twitter.

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To be a logical consequence of something.

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If you don't practise proper hygiene, illness is sure to follow.

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To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.

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A group of followers, attendants or admirers; an entourage.

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He had a loyal following.

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Vocation; business; profession.

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(with definite article, treated as singular or plural) A thing or things to be mentioned immediately after.

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The following are the three most important questions.

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Coming next, either in sequence or in time.

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See the following section.

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About to be specified.

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The following words have no definition [...]

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(of a wind) Blowing in the direction of travel.

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The following wind sped us on our way.

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After, subsequent to.

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Following the meeting, we all had a chat.

He must have been following us.

Kyle said, following her into the kitchen.

Following a long drive that consisted of little more than two ruts worn by vehicle tires, they came to the Marsh ranch.

She looked back toward Andre's apartment, surprised to see two dark forms on the ledge following her.

The two were sharing a room and the escape was not discovered until the following morning.

Before you start following the poor woman like in a James Bond movie, maybe we should give the entire Dawkins clan a rest.

People who live their lives following their passions seem more full of life and energy than anyone else.

Following the nurses instruction, she gently stroked his cheek.

Frustrated, Katie looked both directions down the pristine, eerily quiet hallway before following the kid toward the far end, where a bright red exit sign hung over the door.

You're not very good at following someone.

I drove south toward town on the West Surry Road but instead of following Court Street, turned back north west on the Old Walpole to Howie's home.

The summer and winter following the "Frost King" incident I spent with my family in Alabama.

Martha would talk to Quinn... to grease the skids... as she put it, and have him telephone me the following evening.

Unfortunately, he did not miss the child until the following morning.

Nobody following you or creeping around?

It chanced that I walked that way across the fields the following night, about the same hour, and hearing a low moaning at this spot, I drew near in the dark, and discovered the only survivor of the family that I know, the heir of both its virtues and its vices, who alone was interested in this burning, lying on his stomach and looking over the cellar wall at the still smouldering cinders beneath, muttering to himself, as is his wont.

I'm used to one of them following me around like a puppy.

The following chapter catalogs the difficulties inherent in trying to end war, which in the past brought misery and destruction and in the future could bring annihilation.

Fortunately, the boy ran off but the police, who were following Bryce based on our earlier tip, photographed his attempted abduction.

She didn't see Jared, but she couldn't shake the sense he – or someone else – was following her.

You following so far?

I was so busy following the road map I made so many years ago that I didn't notice it was outdated.

Deidre went to the breakfast bar, eyes following Cora's movements.

I promised to visit him again the following summer, but he died before the promise was fulfilled.

She pulled to the side to let a following car pass.

If the snow lies deep, they strap on his snowshoes, and, with the giant plow, plow a furrow from the mountains to the seaboard, in which the cars, like a following drill-barrow, sprinkle all the restless men and floating merchandise in the country for seed.

Prince Andrew, being always near the commander in chief, closely following the mass movements and general orders, and constantly studying historical accounts of battles, involuntarily pictured to himself the course of events in the forthcoming action in broad outline.

Following his gaze, Cynthia saw the little green Ford coming up the drive.

This heap, made in the winter of '46-7 and estimated to contain ten thousand tons, was finally covered with hay and boards; and though it was unroofed the following July, and a part of it carried off, the rest remaining exposed to the sun, it stood over that summer and the next winter, and was not quite melted till September, 1848.

Were the Indians still following?

She's learned to appreciate life and those around her, following a diagnosis of a terminal illness.

A third way to predict the future that I believe is reliable rejects both the slavish following of the straight line and the purely speculative approach.

By the following September Helen shows improvement in fulness of construction and more extended relations of thought.

The following day, Mr. Rupert Youngblood gained more notoriety, appearing on a national television morning show.

By this time he had risen from the table and was pacing the room, Natasha following him with her eyes.

Betsy and I reluctantly agreed, also agreeing to travel north the following weekend.

Lives have been lost because we've either not been believed or someone was too late following up.

We knew the young girl was in trouble shortly after she left her house, with Howie following closely behind her.

While I wanted to wake Betsy and explain the situation I felt following Julie's directive might free her to be more forthcoming.

There's no doubt you'll be following me, if you're not plunked down on the ice on your own cute little boom-boom.

The history of these lines is the subject of the following paragraphs.

This able leader, eager to reach Asuncion as quickly as possible, sent on his ships to the river Plate, but himself with a small following marched overland from Santa Catherina on the coast of Brazil to join Irala.

He could not himself go to the general in attendance as he was in mufti and had come to Tilsit without permission to do so, and Boris, even had he wished to, could not have done so on the following day.

Only by following at some distance could one cut across the zigzag path of the French.

Additionally, the restaurant offers selections for those following a low-calorie/low-carb plan, as well as a separate children's menu.

Following Señor Medena up the stairs, she ran her hand along the smooth wood, enjoying the cool silky soft feel of it.

She ran off to her room, with Betsy following her.

In 1733 George Stone was made dean of Ferns, and in the following year he exchanged this deanery for that of Derry; in 1740 he became bishop of Ferns, in 1743 bishop of Kildare, in 1745 bishop of Derry, and in 1747 archbishop of Armagh.

The impossibility of reconciling the financial requirements of the national party with the demands of the British and French controllers of the public debt, compelled him to resign in the following February.

The manufacture of the cable, begun early in the following year, was finished in June, and before the end of July it was stowed partly in the American ship " Niagara " and partly in decided to begin paying out in mid-ocean, the two vessels, after splicing together the ends of the cable they had on board, sailing away from each other in opposite directions.