How to Use tail in a Sentence

tail

1 of 2 noun

• Just watch out for those tails.
  — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2026
• Oh my god, there’s a long tail.
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2026
• Yet the gas tail still wags the dog.
  — David Frykman, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
• Pin and leave the tail out for a flare.
  — Emily Kelleher, InStyle, 24 June 2026
• Will the coin toss come up heads or tails?
  — Brandon Funston, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2026
• Her tail would flick—back and forth like a metronome.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• But the miles are well worth it to see dogs wag their tails.
  — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Sep. 2025
• The males fan their tails and pump their air sacs up and down.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
• Fancy a slice of mouse tail pie?
  — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Jan. 2026
• Glue the white pom-pom to the back of the egg for a tail.
  — Annabelle Canela, Parents, 14 Mar. 2026
• But perhaps greed choked on its own tail.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
• Those guys have busted their tails.
  — Rick Stroud, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2026
• Their tails are squarish rather than forked.
  — Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
• The rat tail, his little jabs here and there.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2025
• This tail is a clear sign that there is gas and dust around the body.
  — Patrick M. Shober, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2026
• Arcturus is at the kite’s tail.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 31 May 2026
• Nothing a tail box can’t solve.
  — William Roberson, Forbes.com, 24 May 2026
• And again, there's going to be a tail to that.
  — ABC News, 3 May 2026
• These are the tail of a years-long boom in openings.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
• Such tails appear much fainter and glow with a bluish hue.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• The town’s oval wall is the body, while the north gate acts as its tail.
  — Story, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• Mule deer got their name from their rope-like tail, which has a black tip.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 28 Sep. 2023
• In a lot of ways, Phil is the tail that wags the dog.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2025
• The wolf lit out downhill, with the bear hot on his tail.
  — Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
• His white mink coat had a tail as long as the entrance ramp.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 19 Apr. 2026
• On the rear a light bar spans the trunk framed by round tri-star tail lights.
  — Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
• But that’s the ouroboros — the snake eating its own tail.
  — Eric Markowitz, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
• There are two = groups up on the back/tail portion of the dog.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
• The Jeep was missing a tail light.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
• So, the curved shape that made the question mark could be a tidal tail.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023

tail

2 of 2 verb

• The pitch tailed away from the batter.
• She is constantly tailed by the press.
• The police had been tailing the suspect for several miles.
• Y'all are tip to tail in a bunch.
  — Outside Online, 7 Jan. 2026
• Many are blurry or show only an ear or tail at the edge of the frame.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 20 Jan. 2023
• Cars lined up nose to tail on both sides of the street all the way down to the roadblock.
  — Tony Earley, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• Leave the head and tail on, for flavor as well as aesthetics.
  — Domenica Marchetti, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• There are many more, however, who tail the polls with sometimes less than 1%.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2019
• Players who find themselves being tailed tend to take it first as a badge of honor.
  — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 22 Apr. 2026
• Species like Ankylosaurus were covered from snout to tail in armor.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
• The video shows the airplane flip over from nose to tail before coming to rest upside down.
  — Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• The car was driven at high speeds in an attempt to evade the paparazzi that were tailing them.
  — Lynsey Eidell, Peoplemag, 14 Nov. 2023
• Trevor Story sent a fly ball down the right field line, with the ball tailing toward the short fence.
  — Michael Hurley, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025
• How do tail light and all car indicator standards differ across the globe?
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024
• His relatives have cut contact, unnerved by the flock of police that tail him.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
• The Taiwanese air force sent fighters to tail the Chinese planes.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• It’s also covered from tip to tail with solar panels for cleaner cruising.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 9 Mar. 2022
• Researchers believe killer whales find salmon by tailing dolphins, who in turn benefit from bite-sized fish pieces.
  — New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
• As police continued to tail it, someone suddenly hurled a garbage can in front of the police car.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, chicagotribune.com, 12 Dec. 2020
• Blue jays measure on average close to 1 foot long from beak to tail with a wingspan a little more than 1 foot wide.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 10 Nov. 2020
• Imagine the vision of this powerful wild animal running to you, tail out, shiny and in great shape.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2021
• That might sound a little over the top, but keep in mind that Britt has hired private detectives to tail people for years.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2021
• Hamilton, a lefty, sliced a ball into left field that tailed away from a diving Ian Happ deep in the corner.
  — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
• The virality of the first tabloid photo encouraged the paparazzi to tail him more.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2021
• One fan has ensured motorists tailing his car will see a tribute to Bergeron’s legacy.
  — Greg McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2023
• Hu declined, and Sadiku spent the next two years trying to build a case, dispatching agents to tail his family.
  — The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
• El Toro tailed 30-17 going into the fourth quarter.
  — Michael Huntley, Oc Register, 8 Nov. 2025
• Next, turn the fish end to end and run your knife head to tail along the dorsal fin and backbone, pushing the knife deep enough to bounce the blade off the fish’s rib cage.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• Johnson tailed her from Calvary Church to her home that Sunday morning.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
• Later, we were tailed by a unit from the Taliban intelligence section.
  — Victor Blue, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2023