coattails
Example Sentences
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People were hanging foxtails out of their back belt loops.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2025
If left in an animal’s body for an extended amount of time, foxtails can pierce through tissue and migrate to the brain, lungs and other vital organs, per UC Davis.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2023
“Prickly foxtails, poisonous weeds, tall grass, even the leaves of trees. They’ll stand on their hind legs to reach them.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022
I asked Jodrey, pausing at a plant with sugary foxtails that smelled pleasantly of grapefruit.
From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2011
Courtiers are wearing cold-themed headdresses and hats, adorned with snow-flecked branches and holly berries, owl feathers and foxtails.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
