"in its trail" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe something that follows or trails behind another thing, usually in a metaphorical sense. For example, "The success of the exhibition left a long trail of admirers in its trail."
The cyclone, Jade, made landfall on Monday in the northeastern region of the vast island and has now moved on, but the heavy rains it left in its trail heightened fears of serious floods.
The convoy diminished as it moved, leaving in its trail ailing women and children, who could not keep up, scattered possessions, and the dead.
He was shot". The convoy diminished as it moved, leaving in its trail ailing women and children, who could not keep up, scattered possessions, and the dead.
And, true enough, the 159 glues itself to the road and burns round the bends, leaving in its trail only dust and a dark tang of aftershave.
Somehow this hasn't happened, and the mystique that surrounds ancestral privilege seems as potent as ever – made all the stronger by its ability to gather up distinctly un-aristocratic constituencies in its trail.
The official closure of the Afghan front in the West's War on Terror leaves a fog of postwar uncertainty in its trail, but hope can still be found in the Afghan people's core beliefs.
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Moreover, the ivory-bill is charismatic megafauna, regally beautiful and a natural mascot for fund-raising: a magnificent blast of snow in its trailing feathers, a jaunty red cap for a crown and a Harry Potteresque bit of white lightning down its neck.
Here's to seeing many more follow in its trail-blazing path.
The caudal fin has a small but discernible lower lobe and a large upper lobe with a notch in its trailing margin.
The pelvic fins are small with pointed to narrowly rounded tips, and the anal fin has a deep notch in its trailing margin.
