rear end

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Recent Examples of rear end Along the curbing are many automobiles with their radiators pointing toward the crowd and the rear ends toward the middle of the street. Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 13 May 2024 The rear end and tail of Ursa Major, the Big Bear, are very close to the horizon. Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2024 The cheeky marketing campaign for the third Deadpool movie has reached its logical end — a rear end. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 17 July 2024 As a result, the user always stays centered between the front and rear end of the belt, regardless of their running speed. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 10 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rear end 
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Noun
  • His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
    Clement Clarke Moore, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • His cheeks were hollow, and a grizzled beard, which hadn’t seen a proper shave in weeks, made his face look older and all the more haggard.
    Lee Chang-dong, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Meanwhile, on the Senate floor, outgoing members who were either retiring or had lost their seats gave farewell speeches.
    Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The movie shows Black women soldiers donning gas masks in rooms filled with tear gas and climbing rope ladders as part of training, and yet, being asked to give up their seats in a theater.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • McGowan is hidden among other travelers on the platform, and Bonnie can be seen looking into the face of each one eagerly, her ears perked up and her tail starting to wag as McGowan gets closer, the dog possibly picking up on her scent.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Other than being four-legged and having a long tail, the gorgonopsian wouldn’t have looked very doglike, Angielczyk said.
    Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
Noun
  • Then again, maybe an Emira with a stick shift and AMG turbo-four would just be too perfect of a car, in this liminal tail end of the internal-combustion era.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Okami is a cult classic game from Capcom that was released on the PS2 all the way back in 2006 at the very tail end of the PS2's life.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Here, Count Orlick (an utterly transformed and unrecognizable Bill Skarsgard), is anything but a looker, a towering slithery freak with long, icicle-like talons as thick as a rump roast, whose Romanian accent is saddled with Darth Vader-like breathing issues.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Male common wombats have been observed aggressively chasing females and leaving deep, painful bites on their rumps, puncturing their skin.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Located at the bottom of a deep, shaded gorge, one feels transported to the Adirondacks.
    Gary Stoller, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
  • At the bottom of that last one was written in small type the name of the man who had uttered that line.
    Catherine Porter, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • When Yellowstone left off, Rip (Cole Hauser) was preparing to lead the cowboys to Texas and leave Beth (Kelly Reilly) behind, but viewers won't be surprised to find out that their separation doesn't last long.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2024
  • To start with the obvious, there’s really no way to fully see our behinds and know exactly where that sharp blade is going.
    Jenna Ryu, SELF, 11 Oct. 2024

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“Rear end.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rear%20end. Accessed 1 Jan. 2025.

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