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.
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.
Ireland have beaten Galthie's side in back-to-back Six Nations, and now know that a France side with their tails up will be coming to Dublin for a showdown.
From BBC
Just two days later, the AI returned a few hypotheses - and its first thought, the top answer provided, suggested superbugs may take tails in exactly the way his research described.
From BBC
Even though the tails lash back and forth while the rays swim, they are not used for propulsion; similarly, they are not used to kill prey or thwart predators.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.