tail end

noun

Synonyms of tail end next

: the concluding period

the tail end of the session

: buttocks, rump

: the hindmost end

Example Sentences

all I saw was his tail end vanishing around the door

Recent Examples on the Web The study also found evidence to support recent academic research suggesting that the third and second plague pandemics were not mutually exclusive events, but that the third was partly the continuation or tail end of the second. —

Amarachi Orie, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023 The city is now on tail end of the dog restriction trend and is now moving into rolling out the red carpet for Rover. —

Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023 The report determined that the 6-year-old had merely laid the loose tail end of the seatbelt across her lap. —

Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 25 Sep. 2021 For precision, Bailey used the super-skinny tail end of a rattail comb. —

Chelsea Hall, Marie Claire, 5 Oct. 2020 High West High Country American Single Malt is another periodic release, which made its debut at the tail end of the pre-Covid era in early 2020. —

Tony Sachs, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023 The gap between the two became more pronounced at the tail end of the year, and continued into the first few weeks of 2023. —

Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023 His outburst of city pride came at the tail end of back-to-back baskets that stretched the Panthers’ lead to 72-61 with 4:24 left. —

Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023 At the tail end of 2022, the parent of Indian personal-care-products startup Mamaearth—Honasa Consumer Ltd.—filed for an initial public offering. —

Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2023 See More

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