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Example sentences for "long tail"

  • When running upon the ground the long tail is borne aloft, after the manner of the Jay.

  • Now every shikari knows that there may be a heavy tiger with a short tail and a light bodied one with a long tail.

  • The outline of its body is of the form of a short thick coffin, rounded, covered with strong bony plates, and terminating in a long tail, which seems to have been the sole organ of motion.

  • The holoptychius is of a flat oval form, furnished with fins, and ending in a long tail; the whole body covered with strong plates which overlap each other, and the head forming only a slight rounded projection from the general figure.

  • It was as big as a mountain, with horns on its head, and a long tail, and it had hoofs divided in two.

  • Cream-white he was, from the tip of his splendid, yard-long tail to his pink-lipped muzzle.

  • She upped and oped it, and what should she see but a small little black thing with a long tail.

  • Semnopitheci of Southern Asia, in which case it must have possessed a long tail.

  • They have a scaly, tough skin on the back, four powerful feet, and a long tail.

  • The configuration of these stars is much like a boy’s kite with a long tail.

  • They have a long tail, which is almost destitute of hair, and is very useful from its prehensile nature, enabling the animal not only to hang by it, but also to climb and descend trees.

  • I members de comet en hit wuz a sta'r wid a long tail en looked lak hit wuz burnin'.

  • In colour he closely resembles the jackal; but he has a long tail, with a black tuft at the tip, and on each side of the head a brown stripe extends from the eye to the muzzle.

  • It has a powerful hooked beak, a crest of long feathers, and a long tail.

  • The salamanders have, like lizards, an elongated body, four feet, and a long tail, but are destitute of scales.

  • Long Tail, thou art stout of heart and strong of will.

  • Long Tail, the corral has been opened for thee.

  • Think sez I, this English chap needn't be consarned that his kite wont sail high among the Yankees for want of a long tail to it, if they all tuck the etceteras onto his name so strong as cousin Jase does.

  • So what did those two brave frog boys do but make a fire of leaves under the alligator’s long tail.

  • So that’s how Bully and Bawly saved Uncle Wiggily and Grandpa Croaker, by building a fire under the alligator’s long tail.

  • This animal, which is originally a native of Spain, has acquired a long tail in Tartary, and a thick bushy coat in Syria.

  • When compared together they are also found to differ in some generic characters, for every sapajou has a long tail, which he can make use of to seize or lay hold of any object.

  • The Wagtail is 7·5 inches in length, and has a long tail.

  • It has a long tail; its legs are slender, long and bare of feathers.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long tail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but you; general officers; having slain; jolly glad; long absence; long afore; long ages; long been; long chalk; long chase; long conversation; long distance; long duration; long history; long interval; long intervals; long journey; long letter; long nose; long succession; long talk; long way; long white; longer exist; longer necessary; longer time