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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
- It's just the tail end of the edible fungi season and Helen goes foraging with local hotelier Eric Hart looking for ceps, puffballs, winter chanterelles (known as yellowlegs), and blewits with their distinctive scent of Parma violets.
- Even at the tail end of the season, we were seeing numerous herds of 20 or more antelope marshaled by some very fine quality herd bucks.
- Southwell had hardly sat down when the price was being paid, with Jerry Flannery on the tail end of an irresistible maul.
- Like him or not, we're seeing the tail end of a key era in Canadian politics pass.
- And now the tail end of the regiment was passing, the _materiel_ of the batteries, prolonges, forges, forage-wagons, succeeded by the rag-tag, the spare men and horses, and then all vanished in a cloud of dust at another turn in the road amid the gradually decreasing clatter of hoofs and wheels. The Downfall
- While the retail end of the coffee industry is booming, production is in a lamentable state.
- Britt gave to this blunderheaded news purveyor the tail end of the malevolent stare that he had been bestowing on the Prophet's back. When Egypt Went Broke
- An avid fisherman, hunter, outdoorsman and adventurer, Hendryx was a 'salty' character who based much of his writing on his experiences as a cowboy and as a prospector at the tail end of the Alaskan Gold Rush.
- I only saw the tail end of the TV news.
- The first incident cost me $1,000 to replace the "dogleg" on the other person's car (the obscure and perversely expensive little panel between the tail end of the car and the back door). When the hurly-burly's done