Thesaurus results for REAR END

rear end

noun

as in seat

the part of the body upon which someone sits the mother swatted her toddler lightly on his diapered rear end to get his attention

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Recent Examples of rear end Skid marks formed on the road surface and smoke and sparks were produced from the rear end of the car, police said. —

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026 Who knows if, in this upside-down world that currently weighs on her, the june bug can see the nearby corpse of another beetle, accidentally disemboweled by the home’s owner hours before, the white fat peeking out from her rear end like the materialization of her dying breath. —

María Ospina, The Dial, 31 Mar. 2026 The Big Dumper might not lose anything on his rear end, but the Mariners catcher did drop from 6-foot-3 to 6-foot-2. —

Sam Blum, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2026 Common signs of anal gland problems include scooting, persistent odors, and excessive licking of the rear end. —

Kasey Caminiti, USA Today, 5 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for rear end

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One such incident occurred on Christmas Eve in 2024, when stowaway Shemaiah Patrice Small slipped past TSA and a gate agent before she was discovered in someone else’s seat on the Delta Airlines aircraft, CNN reported.

— Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Money, 7 June 2026
Lander’s backers are also challenging a system in which a safe House seat can easily become a sinecure, so long as the incumbent avoids either prison or an ideological betrayal.

— Russell Berman, The Atlantic, 7 June 2026