Sentence examples for turn tail from inspiring English sources

If you turn tail in battle, you will be shot.

"We've seen bad times before, and we don't turn tail and run from trouble," she said.

They loved the fact that we didn't just turn tail and give up.

As returns inevitably decline over time, the herd may turn tail and prompt a price collapse.

When faced with, say, a hawk, most birds will turn tail and fly away.

I keep planning to move there, and then I experience the beginning of winter and I turn tail and run.

Then the creature turns tail and flees.

Williams turned tail and left town a chastened man.

The fight is over when one turns tail.

bretons, turns tail and demands I rectify my terrible oversight.

OUP at first seemed happy but turned tail at the work's burgeoning obesity.