tails

Example Sentences

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He wanted to take a crack at writing like artists like Billie Eilish, but he couldn’t make heads or tails of it.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026

Northern folk legend holds that arctic foxes create the Northern Lights by sweeping snow into the air with their tails, we learn in an author’s note.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Suddenly, the Irish tails were up and replacement prop Michael Milne burrowed over.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

This matters because comets typically show two main tails, a dust tail that trails behind and a plasma tail that points away from the Sun.

From Science Daily • Dec. 20, 2025

When everyone had left, his mother and sister went back to picking off the tails of all the bean sprouts.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh