tail off

verb

tailed off; tailing off; tails off

: to become smaller or quieter in a gradual way

Our productivity tailed off last year.

She started to ask a question and then her voice tailed off.

Examples of tail off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Tobias Jensen, guard, 6-6, Ratiopharm Ulm An auto-eligible 6-6 Danish wing for a team that has specialized in developing younger talent (such as the Bulls’ Noa Essengue and Brooklyn’s Ben Saraf), Jensen shot the lights out in 2024-25, but his numbers tailed off a bit last season. —John Hollinger, New York Times, 20 June 2026

Three years ago, Ross Chastain dramatically tailed off after being targeted for scorn from several veterans who tangled with him. —ABC News, 8 June 2026

Lewis, 26, has been tailing off since a precocious start to his major league career, and some (perhaps fairly) wonder if a pair of major knee injuries have robbed him of what should have been, as the kids say, his final form. —John Shipley, Twin Cities, 29 May 2026

Tatum tallied nine points and nine rebounds in the first quarter of Game 6, but his production tailed off as the night progressed. —Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026

Rhymes for tail off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff