fishtail
Example Sentences
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For the Oscars red carpet she donned a stunning fishtail gown, recreating an original design from 1951 - the year that Felicia and Leonard Bernstein got married.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2024
The world provides guardrails against our juvenile impulses, particularly the ones we continue to drag behind us as we fishtail into our middle years.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2023
Video from the scene before the lane closures showed drivers struggling to maintain control of their vehicles, causing some to fishtail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
Then the speeding tractor-trailer started to fishtail uncontrollably, said the teenager, Esvin Chipel Tzoy.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021
Henry cranks the wheel left, as instructed, and we fishtail, until he manages to gain control, straightening out, then punches the gas.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
