Example Sentences

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The first boy I love has a rat-tail.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

So Rust and Marty achieve some kind of middle-aged detente–Rust with his rat-tail stache and haunted eyes, Marty with his gut hanging over his golf pants.

From Time • Mar. 3, 2014

He favored "Java rat-tail cigars, a contriving of Pain's fireworks dimensions which burned with a clear blue flame like a fuse and possessed an aroma comparable to that of Cambridgeport city dump."

From Time Magazine Archive

A rat-tail file or de-burring tool can be used�as long as you smooth all roughness around the hole.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our mother was very proud of her great-grandmother Catherine's memory, treasured her rat-tail spoons and her wedding stockings of orange silk, and was fond of telling how Benjamin Franklin admired and corresponded with her.

From Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 by Elliott, Maud Howe