Sentence examples for thin tail from inspiring English sources

But most of the country's 7,500 engineering companies belong to a long, thin tail.

An insect about 3 inches in length with a very long thin tail looking a bit like a sting.

They are characterized by a stout body with a pear-shaped head that is distinct from the neck, vertically elliptical pupils, rough and strongly keeled scales, and a short thin tail.

Working with a member of the group in 1942, Luria obtained one of the electron micrographs of phage particles, which confirmed earlier descriptions of them as consisting of a round head and a thin tail.

This might not really affect its mass very much – adding or taking off a couple of metres of thin tail and you'd only really make a difference of a few kilos on an animal that was upwards of 7 or 8 tonnes.

Near the middle of such diagrams are "thin tail" events that happen all the time.

If you imagine a "normal probability" bell-curve, extreme movements are represented by the thin tails on either side.

They are about 10 or 11 inches long, not including the long, thin tails they use for balancing on their hind legs, and are sometimes called slender-tailed mongooses.

When these freak incidents occur, the normally thin tails bulge, or, in the parlance of today, they become "fat".

We generally expect that dramatic, high-impact events occur only rarely, appearing as "thin tails" on a curve.

In particular, the terms wild or mild are here related to the presence of heavy or thin tails, respectively, in the frequency-size distributions.