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the time of the last part of something
the fag end of this crisis-ridden century
the tail of the storm - any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
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the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
he deserves a good kick in the butt
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
How To Use tail end In A Sentence
- I worked another 12 hour shift on Sunday, getting home in time to catch the tail end of the Oscars.
- (Perhaps this in analogous to the question of whether clinical depression is simply the tail end of natural variations of being “blue”). The Volokh Conspiracy » Adderall
- Scottish merchants used their transatlantic connections to drive Franco-American competitors from the market, but for the retail end of their commerce they relied on the same voyageurs as had their predecessors.
- The tail end of a cyclone hit Gisborne just as the ship was leaving the harbour and instead of sailing out beyond the reef it finished up aground alongside it.
- Underneath the front end and tail end, the A4 allroad has a stainless-steel underbody guard. WN.com - Business News
- I only caught the tail end of the conversation.
- We bought Meyer lemons, pistachios, avocados (we hit the tail end of their Zutano crop), and a couple of satsuma oranges. Finding Local Food on the California Roadside « Dyepot, Teapot
- "Last year marked the tail end of a bad downturn in the electronics business, " he says.
- Like their cousins, they are hermaphroditic, but unlike them, they do not regenerate if cut up; they are more specialized, having suckers at their tail ends.
- Similarly, as the nose goes down, the vortices below the keels tend to counteract the upward tilt of the tail end.
