How to Use follow suit in a Sentence

follow suit

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  • Dess Dior followed suit in a pair of metallic silver sandals.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Leadership has followed suit, driven by the need to control outcomes and stay ahead of crises.
    — Denielle Sachs, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • This pair follows suit with two side stripes in varying color combinations.
    — Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
  • And yet Baum doesn't anticipate many other schools will follow suit.
    — Lauren Sausser, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Russia has already begun filling this gap with glide bombs, and Ukraine is now following suit.
    — Vikram Mittal, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • The two miniseries have, in my view, successfully followed suit, enthralling audiences in each of their times.
    — Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
  • If these eight matches follow suit of the previous round, there should be late heroics and plenty of drama in the Round of 32.
    — Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
  • Three months later, Gemini, the centralized exchange led by the Winklevoss twins, followed suit.
    — Camila Grigera Naón, Fortune, 2 July 2026
  • The rest of the season followed suit, delivering Teri's (Enuka Okuma) apocalypse story, and so much more.
    — Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 6 July 2026
  • Unsurprisingly, other luxury brands and high street retailers quickly followed suit.
    — Sarah Leigh Bannerman, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 July 2026
  • Many modern brides now wear different outfits for the ceremony and reception, and reporting from Page Six implies that Swift will follow suit.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 1 July 2026
  • Many modern brides now wear different outfits for the ceremony and reception, and reporting from Page Six implies that Swift will follow suit.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 30 June 2026
  • After the president played hardball with GOP leaders by holding the housing bill hostage, conservative hardliners in the House followed suit.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • Many modern brides now wear different outfits for the ceremony and reception, and additional reporting from Page Six implies that Swift will follow suit.
    — Hannah Malach, InStyle, 1 July 2026
  • But efforts in the greater Charlotte area have been snowballing since last fall, with Cornelius overhauling its ordinance in November and Waxhaw and Davidson following suit in February.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
  • Many pro-Palestine student-activist groups endorsed the Hamas attacks, and the DSA’s International Committee as well as multiple local chapters followed suit.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 1 July 2026
  • Other movies, like 1995's Pocahontas and 1998's Mulan (which also featured Salonga as the title character's singing voice), followed suit.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony finally got around to building its own brewery in 1637, and most colonies followed suit, starting with Rhode Island (1639), then New Hampshire (1670), Pennsylvania (1683) and Georgia (1738).
    — Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 2 July 2026

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