How to Use follow about in a Sentence

follow about

verb
  • The wings follow about five to 10 floors behind.
    — Amira El-Fekki‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025
  • That amount follows about 600 people let go last year.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Bardot spoke openly in the years that followed about not being happy about becoming a mother.
    — Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Obviously Texas followed about a month or so afterwards.
    — NBC news, 2 Nov. 2025
  • While the cast announced this week includes 32 people, the show usually only follows about 10 from the pods down the aisle.
    — Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The second chick followed about a week later, starting to pip on March 17 and hatching on March 19.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Kelly was named as city manager Tuesday night with a 4-0 vote following about a dozen comments from the public.
    — Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • The first helicopter was dispatched in minutes to retrieve the injured girl; a second chopper followed about an hour later to bring the rest of the troop to safety.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • It was followed about nine months later by the 21st Amendment that ended Prohibition.
    — Wendy Killeen, AZCentral.com, 21 Mar. 2026
  • But whenever hospitals get bigger, questions follow about costs, competition and what changes patients can expect.
    — Shelley Bortz, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • To answer these questions, the team followed about 11,300 adults ages 65 and older from the Health and Retirement Study over 12 years.
    — Currie Engel, Health, 3 Apr. 2026
  • That followed about 15 years with the city averaging just under 10 people shot and five to six people killed by Jacksonville police, according to Times-Union records.
    — Scott Butler, Florida Times-Union, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Over a month and a half into the Nancy Guthrie investigation, there are a lot of different storylines people are following about the abduction of Savannah Guthrie’s mom.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 19 Mar. 2026
  • At least 15 people were rescued at North Carolina’s Wrightsville Beach on Tuesday, following about 60 rescues at the beach Monday, according to Sam Proffitt, the town’s ocean rescue director.
    — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The first Spanish expedition to California in 1542 was followed about 220 years later when Gaspar de Portolá and Franciscan monk Junipero Serra traversed the coastal lands.
    — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 3 July 2026
  • The Hubble data, captured in August 2024 as part of the long-running Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, was followed about 14 weeks later by Webb observations taken through Director's Discretionary Time, showing Saturn shifting from northern summer toward its 2025 equinox.
    — Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026

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