Sentence examples for tail i from inspiring English sources

A rat's tail, I think".

"Even without a tail?" I said.

How do you walk with that tail?" "I have legs," the girl says.

He tells us all about Sinbad, his brother, and what brotherhood means to him, and how strange it can be to be so close and so removed – especially when he does odd things like twirl a rodent around by its tail: "I stood near Sinbad; he was my brother and he was holding a dead rat in his hand".

In the same way as I'll wait and stick an arm around a lost child in a supermarket or give a quid to a tramp or take in a one-eared cat with a manky tail, I am happier when other things are happy.

The perkier Live and Learn appears to offer some respite and resolution, before the sting in its tail: "I came to on a corner, want some help from a man, and goddam I don't seem to have learned that a lady in need is guilty indeed; so I paid and got laid in return and I don't know what I've learned".

"And all by small white creatures with pink eyes and little tails," I said.

"Exactly," said Louis, no stranger to top hat and tails, I would warrant.

That stands for "tails I lose, heads you win" and might be called a fielder's choice.

I love washing them down, I like tacking them up, I like brushing them, I like taking the sawdust out of their tails, I like all of it.

On this occasion, I had my heart set on having some with the fish tails I'd set aside, but no such luck.