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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 - the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope
How To Use fag end In A Sentence
- A lot of younger people sat in the aisle amid the fag ends, gum and dust.
- The greatest scoundrel is always captain of the band of patrols; they are the offscouring of all things, the refuse, the fag end, the ears and tails of slavery; the scales and fins of fish, the tooth and tongues of serpents; they are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of pole-cats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes; Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated
- I was on the fag end of an extended cold, unshaven, lacking decent sleep and possibly a little dehydrated.
- the fag end of this crisis-ridden century
- There were fag ends all over the floor.
- As I squelched across the living room carpet, examining the multitude of shades and stains it now possessed and marvelling at a pint glass full to the brim with ash and fag ends, something struck me.
