tail - use in sentences

Object

  • godwit: The first black tailed godwits were found and lots more stilts and stints.

Converse of object

  • wag: The diabetes took your sight and with it your smile, but the tail still wagged.
  • fork: A being with horns and a forked tail is a myth.

Adjective modifier

  • bushy: They are about twice the size of a domestic cat, with tabby markings and a long bushy tail.
  • kinked: The squint and kinked tail have been bred out and rarely appear in the modern breed.
  • curly: The heavy head alighted just above the root of the boar's curly tail.

Modifies a noun

  • feather: A token of their ancestry will be seen in the curly tail feathers of the drakes.
  • fin: The black craft was a perfect triangle, with no jagged edges or visible rear tail fin.
  • fluke: Tail flukes are pointed at the tips with a concave trailing edge and a deep median notch.
  • rotor: No tail rotor, making it 50 per cent quieter.
  • wag: That would be to let the tail wag the dog.
  • ender: Unable to find any support Clifford himself was bowled and the tail enders were left to play for bonus points and a possible draw.

Noun used with modifier

  • pheasant: The big trout trigger points on this fly are the trailing pheasant tail legs, which identify this fly to the fish.
  • pony: I'm going to claim that pony tail of his as a trophy.
  • lobster: All of the lobster tails breaded george lucas science-fiction the rocks along.
  • crayfish: The smart restaurant serves fantastic tapas dishes throughout the day - including Parma ham crisps, crayfish tails and baby octopus.

Possessives

  • peacock: Hence, for example, the peacock's tail.

Preposition: of

  • underachievement: The results show in Table 3 that the early intervention virtually eliminated the potential tail of underachievement.
  • pancreas: Spiral computed tomography of the pancreas showed a 3 x 2.5 cm mass in the region of the tail of the pancreas.
  • comet: The solar wind has large effects on the tails of comets and even has measurable effects on the trajectories of spacecraft.

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