How to Use tail end in a Sentence

tail end

noun

• The Ritz opened to great fanfare in 1927 at the tail end of the silent movie era.
  — Tony Cook, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Mar. 2022
• This was at the tail end of the Obama years, on the cusp of Trump’s election.
  — Seth Harp, Rolling Stone, 21 Dec. 2021
• At the tail end of last year, both were left on the cutting room floor.
  — Kelsey Butler, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Dec. 2022
• The tail end of the weekend is expected to have a 50% chance of rain.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2022
• Only a smidge, though: The tail end grew by 0.4 inch, while the front gained 1.9 inches.
  — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 18 May 2022
• That was the tail end of a 12-year stretch in which the Tigers had at least two — and as many as six — All-Stars 10 times.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2022
• But then, on the tail end of a 19-yard run at the start of the second quarter, the ball was torn from Carter’s grasp.
  — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 28 Aug. 2022
• Here are a few of the movies scheduled for release from the tail end of summer through the end of 2021.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Brooke took the pregnancy test at 11 o’clock on a hot night at the tail end of the summer.
  — Caroline Kitchener, Washington Post, 20 June 2022
• The blaze broke out at the tail end of a year of devastating wildfires in the West.
  — Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2022
• That’s the highest since early March and the tail end of the massive omicron surge.
  — Ramsey Archibald | [e-mail], al, 21 May 2022
• At the tail end of his trip, a teenage singer, Price, pitched him on a demo session.
  — Randall Robertsstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2022
• This heat wave is a late one, landing at the tail end of the monsoon season.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• The Sunrise was on the tail end of a five-day, round-trip cruise in the Western Caribbean.
  — Elainie Barraza, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2022
• The tail end of the Gulf Stream reaches the west coast of Svalbard and melts sea ice, the sunglasses of the high Arctic.
  — New York Times, 19 May 2022
• In the heaving seas of the Southern Ocean, a small, red-hulled sailboat tossed and rolled, at the mercy of the tail end of a tempest.
  — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
• Margie Talavera was a Navy corpsman at the tail end of the Vietnam War.
  — Kevin Fagan, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Nov. 2022
• The spike in oil prices in July 2008 came at the tail end of a decade-long energy crisis.
  — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
• The gap between the two became more pronounced at the tail end of the year, and continued into the first few weeks of 2023.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The report determined that the 6-year-old had merely laid the loose tail end of the seatbelt across her lap.
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 25 Sep. 2021
• The Bears were behind three other teams in firing their coach at the tail end of that season.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
• Sherra Wright was indicted around the same time Turner was at the tail end of 2017.
  — Micaela A Watts, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2022
• At the tail end of riot grrrl, Oakland’s Gravy Train!!!!
  — Annie Fell, SPIN, 1 Sep. 2022
• Released at the tail end of the year to be Oscar-eligible.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Dec. 2021
• Peacock viewers saw the scene play out at the tail end of season 5's fourth episode, which dropped on Thursday.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• Shadow is at the tail end of her working career, going out less and less.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Oct. 2021
• Ladybug, for example, is kind of on the tail end of his career and doesn't want to fight.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 8 Aug. 2022
• One thing nobody expected, of course, was the real-life events that would unfold at the tail end of the Many Saints shoot.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2021
• While the Navy is still working to recover the aircraft, the Jan. 24 crash tested the crew on the tail end of its long deployment.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
• What was left, at the tail end of all this storm action, was a brief, perfect Elizabethan-style lyric.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2022

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