coattails

Example Sentences

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In a market where sometimes tenuous links spell big moves for stocks, the Super Bowl halftime performance from Bad Bunny failed to produce coattails.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026

The movie had to be made close enough to the album’s release that it could ride the coattails of the record’s popularity until the “Brat”-green wheels fell off.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2026

Presidents typically carry in on their coattails a bunch of their party’s candidates in marginal seats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Other IT consulting companies rode on the stock’s coattails Wednesday.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

In the high-ceilinged dining room, a waiter in coattails led them to a table with ivory candles and a white linen tablecloth.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown