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Coattails is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Coattails in a sentence

Coattails meaning

plural of coattail

Using Coattails

  • The main meaning on this page is: plural of coattail
  • In the example corpus, coattails often appears in combinations such as: the coattails, coattails of, coattails for.

Context around Coattails

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
  • Position in the sentence: 6 start, 5 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

lengthy 1× immense 1× teams 1×

Often after:

black 1×

Sentence patterns with Coattails

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

riding the coattails of the 2× biden s coattails in another 1× brady s coattails for 20 1× father s coattails and become 1× juggernaut s coattails black tom 1× juve s coattails 1× monocles and coattails 1× offer some coattails to congressional 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

by hitching himself 1× countless political hopefuls 1× each white house 1× gallego and his 1× he provided immense 1× he was fired 1×

Common sentence endings:

absurdly difficult boss 1× always work together 1× coattails since 2015 1× for 20 years 1× fund their campaigns 1× her own merit 1×

Words around Coattails

Just before it in the word index:

coatsworth 7 coats 471 coatney 2 coatis 4 coatings 153 coating 472

Just after it in the word index:

coatue 3 coauthor 13 coauthored 12 coauthors 12 coax 91 coaxed 60

Similar in corpus frequency:

aapi 29 aarey 29 aberdare 29 academician 29 acquaint 29 actuaries 29

Corpus analysis for Coattails

  • In this selection, "coattails" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, lengthy, immense, teams and black stand out and add context to how "coattails" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include riding the coattails of the and biden s coattails in another. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "coattails" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with coattails

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Countless political hopefuls have tried to grab onto Lincoln’s lengthy coattails. (12 words)

Horror movies may not be the classiest films, but who says cinema needs monocles and coattails? (16 words)

He was fired in Cleveland, jilted the Jets and rode Brady’s coattails for 20 years. (16 words)

Longer example sentences

QPR are next up on Saturday in their penultimate home outing of the season and it's imperative City do everything they can to remain on the coattails of the top six, and just keep things interesting for as long as possible. (42 words)

The from creator Jason Wardle in 2022 for seven figures, has filed a legal challenge that alleges Worldle is "creating confusion" between the brands, and riding the coattails of the "enormous goodwill" behind the original game. (36 words)

Should coach Maurizio Sarri make that decision he will give Buffon his first league start since December at a crucial weekend in the title race, with stubborn Lazio refusing to let go of Juve’s coattails. (36 words)

Question examples

Horror movies may not be the classiest films, but who says cinema needs monocles and coattails? (16 words)

Example sentences (20)

Horror movies may not be the classiest films, but who says cinema needs monocles and coattails?

While Robyn is vilified in the press and by her co-stars, Juan is living comfortably off of Robyn's coattails.

Countless political hopefuls have tried to grab onto Lincoln’s lengthy coattails.

Each White House hopeful figures to offer some coattails to congressional candidates of their party, though local issues are often higher priorities.

Gallego and his GOP rival, former television news anchor Kari Lake, are both targeting undecided Republicans in a contest that will test the strength of Trump’s coattails.

It’s a problem when we’d rather ride on the coattails of 1804 than make new history in 2024.

QPR are next up on Saturday in their penultimate home outing of the season and it's imperative City do everything they can to remain on the coattails of the top six, and just keep things interesting for as long as possible.

Riding their coattails by digging deeper into their strong buy stocks can give you a leg up on the rest of the market.

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The from creator Jason Wardle in 2022 for seven figures, has filed a legal challenge that alleges Worldle is "creating confusion" between the brands, and riding the coattails of the "enormous goodwill" behind the original game.

He provided immense coattails for Coach Tommy Tuberville who beat our-anomaly, liberal, two-year-tenured Democratic Senator Doug Jones by an amazing 60-to-40 shellacking.

He was fired in Cleveland, jilted the Jets and rode Brady’s coattails for 20 years.

How long are Biden’s coattails?: In another rematch — this one from 2016 — GOP Rep. John Katko faces Democrat Dana Balter in New York’s 24th District, home to Syracuse.

Ride my coattails as I navigate these financial markets and build wealth one chart pattern at a time.

Should coach Maurizio Sarri make that decision he will give Buffon his first league start since December at a crucial weekend in the title race, with stubborn Lazio refusing to let go of Juve’s coattails.

By hitching himself to Juggernaut's coattails, Black Tom managed to come quite close to actually defeating the X-Men a few times, but the two friends didn't always work together.

I’ve observed her emerge from under her famous father’s coattails and become established on her own merit.

Marks & Spencer began selling Percy Pigs over 25 years ago, and they haven't been stocked in the guilt lanes (the bit before the checkout where children tug on their parent's coattails) since 2015.

Now Pederson says that they would have won with Wentz and Wentz would have been Superbowl MVP, like Foles just rode on the teams coattails.

Parker wants to win as a conservative on the coattails of Donald Trump – both wealthy businessmen with no political experience who chose to mostly self-fund their campaigns.

Riding the coattails of the game that essentially resurrected the fighting genre, this expansion added a huge problem in the form of Oni, an absurdly difficult boss.

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Common combinations with coattails

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "coattails" in a sentence?
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What does "coattails" mean?
Coattails means: plural of coattail
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