heads or tails
Example Sentences
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The iPhone Clean Up tool did OK with the grass, but couldn’t make heads or tails of the tents in the background.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
Let’s start by considering our hypothetical quantum system that can, when observed, come up either heads or tails.
From Scientific American • May 22, 2023
If you can make heads or tails out what he's trying to say there, good luck to you.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2023
There are only two choices: heads or tails.
From Washington Times • Feb. 10, 2023
I can read Hitler’s secret orders but can’t make heads or tails of these five words from my mum.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
