TAIL in a Sentence

Learn TAIL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
197 example sentences for TAIL, such as:
1. Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
2. The tail does often catch the fox.
3. The male has beautiful tail feathers.
4. I only saw the tail end of the TV news.
5. a spouting fish, with a horizontal tail.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TAIL
tail
 n.  any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
 v.  remove or shorten the tail of an animal
Classic Sentence: (156 in 11 pages)
1  Above their heads a flock of chimney swallows whirled suddenly on swift wings and now and then a rabbit scurried startled across the road, his white tail bobbing like an eiderdown powder puff.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  It's Scarlett who sticks under my tail like a cocklebur.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  But Tom, full of years and irritable at disturbances, switched his tail and spat softly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
4  Scarlett, who had been rocking and fanning herself with a turkey tail fan, stopped abruptly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
5  The result was a small brown and white Shetland pony with a long silky mane and tail and a tiny sidesaddle with silver trimmings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  Kennicott had borrowed Jackson Elder's red and white English setter, a complacent dog with a waving tail of silver hair which flickered in the sunshine.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  The setter crawled ahead, his tail quivering, his belly close to the stubble.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
9  Almost any one must have noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a vertical, or up-and-down tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
10  Whereas, among spouting fish the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal position.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
11  a spouting fish, with a horizontal tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
12  The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
13  But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is all wrong.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
14  It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
15  At some old gable-roofed country houses you will see brass whales hung by the tail for knockers to the road-side door.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
2  The male has beautiful tail feathers.
3  The fox knew too much, that's how he lost his tail.
4  I only saw the tail end of the TV news.
5  The cow knows not what her tail is worth until she has lost it.
6  I have notified them to watch and tail him.
7  Money will buy a pretty dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.
8  The fox that had lost its tail would persuade others out of theirs.
9  The tail does often catch the fox.
10  Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.
11  Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
12  Jest with an ass and he will flap you in the face with his tail.
13  Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a horse.
14  Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
15  Try to imagine a jet which is more than seventy meters long and more than five stories high at the tail.