tailpiece

[ UK /tˈe‍ɪlpiːs/ ]
NOUN
  1. appendage added to extend the length of something
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How To Use tailpiece In A Sentence

  • The strings had snapped, the fingerboard was half off, the ornate bridge had shattered and the tailpiece had fallen off.
  • As Nitin points out, his tailpiece was really nice.
  • Wednesday's tailpiece about the motor mower that had been out of action for awhile and the exasperated wife trying to shame her husband by cutting the lawn with nail scissors, struck a chord.
  • The tailpiece makes a limited exception to that principle in the cases in which it applies.
  • The internal block at the bottom holds the tail button to which the tailpiece (which holds the strings) is hitched.
  • Note from ‘King’ Charles yesterday (he's one of my readers, and he's from King William's Town, hence the royal title, who supplies the odd tailpiece or three - odd as in once in a while, not strange).
  • Bessie Howard is now in a retirement home in Johannesburg and the tailpiece, together with this story, will be going to her.
  • A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.
  • Once he had decided not to publish his physics, the Treatise on Man, which Descartes had intended as a kind of tailpiece to The World, had also to be put on one side.
  • I enjoyed your tailpiece about the child born without ears.
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