How to Use tail off in a Sentence

tail off

phrasal verb

• But he’s worked his tail off this year to get better and better.
  — Ben Thomas | [e-mail], al, 30 June 2023
• The best way to do that is actually playing your tail off, at game speed, against the best in the biz.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
• Grove went on to win 300 games and reach the Hall of Fame; Earnshaw tailed off as his night life of carousing took its toll.
  — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
• His performance tailed off the second half of the season.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
• And the best way to answer them is not by sitting out — but by actually playing your tail off, at game speed, against the best in the biz.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 11 June 2024
• And while DuVernay has been running her tail off trying to promote it this month, the players of the race already felt set in stone.
  — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2024
• But industry chiefs warned that the strength would tail off this year as a recession looms and customer delinquencies climb.
  — Bill Hardekopf, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Separate the hide at the tail by either running your knife under the hide or cutting the tail off altogether.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 7 Sep. 2023
• Cricket Wireless, which is owned by AT&T, had more than 9,000 outages at one point but the reports had also tailed off later in the afternoon.
  — Michelle Chapman, The Enquirer, 12 June 2024
• While monthly job gains haven’t tailed off as much as anticipated to this point, there is a notable slowdown that’s occurred from the blockbuster job gains of the past three years.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 1 June 2023
• But, as Betts’ numbers tailed off, speculation started to spur.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• Biden has overseen record job creation, which has tailed off in recent months but remains solid (although unemployment no longer is the lowest in decades).
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• The 41-year-old Alonso finished on the podium eight times last year and initially appeared to pose a threat to Red Bull’s dominance, though the car’s competitiveness tailed off towards the end of the season.
  — Sam Joseph, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024
• The tech and temporary help sectors are cutting workers, and hiring in the big hospitality and leisure industry has tailed off.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
• Whereas Wall Street once worried more about production than sales, the focus has shifted to sales as fears have since arisen that demand at current prices is tailing off and more discounting is needed.
  — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• This road swing looms as a tipping point for a team whose scoring has tailed off and whose power play has fizzled, scoring only once in 22 opportunities over the last seven games after an 0-for-2 effort Thursday.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• Acceleration stays brisk until around 60 mph, tailing off rapidly above that.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 24 Aug. 2023
• Because reporting and interest in general have tailed off, no one has a good idea how many cases are actually occurring, but there are enough that hospitalizations have doubled since autumn.
  — Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 9 Jan. 2024
• The efforts by student groups and women’s organizations to organize protests against political repression and human rights violations have tailed off, replaced by impromptu violent riots over economic grievances, water shortages, and power outages.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024