tag end
the last or final part of something: They came in at the tag end of the performance.
a random scrap, fragment, or remnant.
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How to use tag end in a sentence
It was Major Putnam Stone, and as he entered the door he caught the tag end of what one of us was saying.
The Escape of Mr. Trimm | Irvin S. CobbEverything, and she dug impatiently in the sand with scooping fingers—everything has been left at a tag-end.
The Angel of Pain | E. F. BensonPractice was not so much subordinated to knowledge as treated as a kind of tag-end or aftermath of knowledge.
Democracy and Education | John DeweyI will look through the tag end of these notes and I think we have reached the end.
Warren Commission (9 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyAt first, even with my fingers on every tag end of information that came out of the terrible area, it was an unnoticeable change.
Of Stegner's Folly | Richard S. Shaver
British Dictionary definitions for tag end
the last part of something: the tag end of the day
a loose end of cloth, thread, etc
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