"Pe-eek!" It was a cry of joyful discovery, but it was followed almost immediately by silence.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

A fight followed and a confusion of sounds impossible to describe.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

Forty-seven comments followed a story about college student grade expectations.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

The guitar followed a short time later.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The announcement followed a closed-door briefing for NATO foreign ministers by Secretary Clinton on the new Afghan strategy announced by President Barack Obama earlier this week.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Several of their associates also were injured. The ambush followed a separate attack that killed two members of another anti-Taliban citizen's group in the Swat Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The comments followed an overwhelming vote in the U.N.General Assembly on a non-binding resolution condemning the 47-year-old U.S.trade embargo against Cuba and urging Washington to lift the restrictions.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Security officials in Massachusetts say there are no known threats to Boston and that Thursday's raids at a suburban home and a fuel station followed a period of close, confidential contact with New York's police department and federal agents.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

He apparently did not feel at ease playing with a big band, even one that followed his own musical ideas.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

However,putting a silver sixpence inside a shoe is generally not a tradition followed by brides in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.07.15

He followed this hit a few months later with "I Got You (I Feel Good)", an even bigger hit.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

These areas followed the great curve of the Mississippi River, giving New Orleans the shape of a crescent.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Gemini Six followed Gemini Seven, but in a lower orbit that moved the two spacecraft closer together.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

It went up and up. I followed the trail for several hundred meters more until I came to the mouth of a large cave.

VOA: special.2010.07.10