How to Use tailing in a Sentence

tailing

noun

• Bass fishing remains fair to good on the points and dredger tailings at the north end of the lake.
  — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 3 July 2017
• With the bases loaded in the eighth, Walsh snagged a tailing liner by Chicago's Kris Bryant to end the frame and keep the lead at 5-2.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2021
• The feat was the part of the competition known as colas or steer tailing.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
• Few investors have publicly seized on the tailings mess as a reason to shun Freeport.
  — Danielle Bochove, Bloomberg.com, 5 June 2018
• The corps chose not to examine what would happen if a dam holding back the mine tailings were to fail.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• The idea was that if the tailings dam at Berkeley Pit failed, the pit would have enough room to hold the additional water.
  — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
• The overall volume of tailings has kept growing for more than 50 years.
  — Ian Willms, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
• In all, these tailings dams, some as high as 40 stories, would extend more than 10 miles.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2019
• These tailings would cover miles of streams that lead into Davison Canyon, to the northeast.
  — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• One of the pinnacles of fly fishing is watching a tailing bonefish slurp down your fly and the chaos that ensues.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 17 Jan. 2023
• Cue a long night of further snooping, limo-tailing, and righteous barging in.
  — Tom Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• The couple noted that some products just aren’t suited for e-tailing.
  — Kevin Riordan, Philly.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• His smooth motion produced a series of tailing sinkers.
  — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2022
• The scalloped land just to the right of the mine is covered in tailings, and the large gray rectangles above that are containment ponds where the metal was extracted.
  — Betsy Mason, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2009
• Rather than high-tailing it from east to west or north to south, pause in the geographic center of the contiguous United States.
  — Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
• The trail parallels the river for some time, and it was marked with piles of old mining tailings and equipment — relics of the small gold rush that invaded the country in the early 1900s.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2019
• With his team ahead 2-1, Astros catcher Max Stassi struck a tailing cutter to the opposite field in the fifth inning.
  — David Barron, Houston Chronicle, 29 Apr. 2018
• Further, the crystals, says Mary, would be shipped out of state in large chunks for processing, so there would be no chemical ponds or tailings.
  — Time, 17 July 2023
• Some sites feature massive piles or impoundments of mine waste known as tailings.
  — Matthew Brown, The Seattle Times, 20 Feb. 2019
• The Bayan-Obo district in Inner Mongolia contains the world’s largest rare-earth mine and the world’s largest tailings pond, which has been filled with toxic chemicals since the 1950s.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
• Pollock is well known for tracking down tailing-away line drives and making acrobatic plays at the wall.
  — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 11 Mar. 2018
• Its tributary the Río Colorado was gone, the channel dotted with tailings, every fork past and present scraped to the bone, destruction a mile wide and as long as the river.
  — Nell Zink, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• Opponents say if the dam enclosing the tailings bursts, the heavy metals and other toxic substances could reach the Gila.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 15 Jan. 2020
• The mining company wanted to extract copper and deposit tailings in the fjord.
  — Juliana Hanle, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
• Any tailings piles will be leveled to blend into the bottom of the channel, the company's application says.
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2018
• Huge tailings dams will be placed near the Nass River; two creeks will be destroyed and resident fish stocks relocated.
  — Dale Kelley, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Aug. 2017
• And there was a disastrous failure at an iron mine in Brazil of a tailings basin dam that had some similarities with PolyMet’s planned dam.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• The Brumadinho tailings dam disaster in Brazil has killed at least 179 people, with hundreds more missing and feared dead.
  — Luciana Magalhaes, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2019
• For one thing, Deranger points out, the cleanup of mines and tailings ponds will eventually require enormous investment.
  — Ian Willms, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
• Also, foundations for homes were built with mine tailings, which exposed people to toxic levels of mercury and other toxic substances.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024