tails
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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.
Holding it down causes waterspouts to spin up all around you, dancing on their tails, merging and splitting—the immersiveness comes courtesy of a speaker in the driver’s headrest.
And then if his game tails off a little bit, then the nostalgic side really kicks in.
From Seattle Times
And then Petit appeared on the ledge above, in a white coat with tails, taking a bow and grasping his balancing pole.
From Washington Post
Like their sea horse cousins, male sea dragons are responsible for carrying the species’s eggs to term and can have more than 150 eggs attached to their tails.
From New York Times
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