tail
Example Sentences
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Some people turn tail when they learn their potential romantic partner has a cat.
Sauropods were long necked, long tailed plant eaters that grew into the largest animals ever to walk on land, yet their earliest life stages were small, exposed, and highly vulnerable.
From Science Daily
Some of the most revealing genetic losses involved genes responsible for forming the tail, or flagellum, of sperm.
From Science Daily
She trains them to stand stock-still when a judge inspects them nose to tail, or trot in a circle without getting distracted by the crowd.
Gelifen nipped Mal in greeting and then crouched over a bowl of cream, his long tail twitching, his wings fluttering with pleasure.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
