How to Use tail fin in a Sentence

tail fin

noun

• That then set up them pulling out the tail fin piece from the ocean.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
• In all, the B-52H flew for five hours without a tail fin.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2017
• The tall tail fin was just the styling cue Earl was looking for.
  — Patrick Cooke, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Oil, to be cooled, passed along the fuselage to the hollow tail fin and back to the engine.
  — Christoper Spregg, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2020
• The one-ton, barn-door-sized tail fin and rudders were simply gone.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2017
• The 1959 is the iconic Cadillac with the giant rocket tail fins.
  — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
• But the Air Canada flight descended to about 59 feet in the air, just higher than the height of a tail fin of one of the planes on the ground.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 2 May 2018
• Boston’s Lucky the Leprechaun shows on the tail fin as well as next to the JetBlue logo on each side of the plane.
  — Ben Mutzabaugh, USA TODAY, 7 May 2018
• The words are jingle-catchy, the music like tail fins turned into twelve-bar riffs.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
• For those new to surf fishing, whiting are silvery colored with a black tip on the top of the tail fin.
  — Frank Sargeant, al, 19 Sep. 2021
• Joy currently is about 4.5 feet long, and her tail fin is almost as long as the rest of her.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2020
• But an open tail fin stabilized the fish, no matter how the body was angled.
  — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• With its large, bulbous body and small tail fins, the XM-388 looked like a cartoon caricature of a bomb.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2016
• The caudal fin, known also as the tail fin, is likened to a motor helping propel the shark forward through the water.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• In the meantime there's this whole tail fin that's come from underwater in Cuba.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
• But the animal’s tail fin—and the rest of its body plan—more closely resembles modern tiger sharks.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 18 Mar. 2021
• The Skunk Works logo is prominent on the visible tail fin.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2022
• The Chinese fighter jet was so close, the CNN crew could see the pilots turning their heads to look at them – and could make out the red star on the tail fins and the missiles it was armed with.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• Thresher sharks use their scythe-like long tail fins to hunt, lashing out at schools of prey fish in fast, aggressive attacks.
  — David Doubilet, National Geographic, 23 June 2016
• The process proved successful in zebrafish, achieving electrode formation in the brain, heart and tail fins.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• Ever since the backyard bomb shelter went the way of tail fins, survival in the face of mushroom clouds has seemed highly relative.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2017
• Pumping hydraulic fluid into one side of the tail fin inflates the skin and causes the fin to bend around the stiffer center sections towards the other side.
  — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 19 June 2019
• The same playbook that dreamed up Cadillac’s space-age tail fins was soon designing sleek Frigidaire iceboxes.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2019
• F-15Es could move the bombs faster and deliver them complete, with guidance and tail fin kits already assembled.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2021
• The airline is upgrading the outside of its planes as well, including adding a larger logo and a new 3D version of the United Arab Emirates flag on the tail fin.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2023
• The eagle shark was likely a slow swimmer that used its tail fin to propel itself and its pectoral fins to maneuver—and maybe add extra speed.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 18 Mar. 2021
• For now, the research team used the shape of the fossil’s vertebrae and the skeleton of its tail fin to classify it as a shark in the order Lamniformes, which includes filter-feeding sharks, mako sharks and the great white.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2021
• Vipers are a little simpler-looking—one engine, one vertical tail fin.
  — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 1 May 2020
• Underestimating the threat Iacocca came along at a time when tail fins, throaty engines, and flashy extras sold new cars.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2019
• But its details define the Oldsmobile F-88 concept as something far more visionary, offering a glimpse of the future in the shape of its fenders, tail fins, exhaust outlets, and use of chrome.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 31 July 2023

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024