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
  • The tall tail fin was just the styling cue Earl was looking for.
    — Patrick Cooke, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • The one-ton, barn-door-sized tail fin and rudders were simply gone.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2017
  • The words are jingle-catchy, the music like tail fins turned into twelve-bar riffs.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • But an open tail fin stabilized the fish, no matter how the body was angled.
    — Cara Giaimo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • As the plane twisted upward, the air pressure wrenched off another tail fin.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Tatiana’s lack of a tail fin has resulted in bullying from her mermaid peers.
    — Sara Rowe Mount, Parents, 26 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the meantime there's this whole tail fin that's come from underwater in Cuba.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Vipers are a little simpler-looking—one engine, one vertical tail fin.
    — Rob Verger, Popular Science, 1 May 2020
  • 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
  • The process proved successful in zebrafish, achieving electrode formation in the brain, heart and tail fins.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The 1959 is the iconic Cadillac with the giant rocket tail fins.
    — A.j. Baime, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Pathfinder 1 has 12 electric motors for propulsion, as well as four tail fins with steering rudders controlled by its fly-by-wire system.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2022
  • In experiments, the scientists created gel electrodes in the brain, heart, and tail fins of living zebra fish with no signs of tissue damage.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Once that tail fin becomes worldwide news very early in season three, the entire globe is going to be asking that question and that’s going to point fingers at the passenger.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Additionally, salmon caught in the personal use fishery must be marked by clipping the tips of their tail fins before they’re concealed from view or transported from the fishing site.
    — Matt Tunseth, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2019
  • 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

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