Tailbacks is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tailbacks meaning
plural of tailback
Using Tailbacks
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of tailback
- In the example corpus, tailbacks often appears in combinations such as: tailbacks on, tailbacks were, with tailbacks.
Context around Tailbacks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 14 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tailbacks
- In this selection, "tailbacks" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, huge, causing, avoid and went stand out and add context to how "tailbacks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and created tailbacks of over and be huge tailbacks at ports. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tailbacks" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tailbacks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A crash is causing tailbacks on the motorway this morning. (10 words)
He has captured the tailbacks from Switch Island heading towards Kirkby. (11 words)
The road, which is a dual carriageway, has tailbacks in both directions. (12 words)
The motorway usually carries between 4,000 and 6,000 vehicles in each direction every hour, so if enough people ignore the warnings not to travel it could spark long tailbacks. (31 words)
He also posted six sacks and nine hurries as a defensive star who was able to tackle in open space, stuff tailbacks at the line and get to the quarterback. (30 words)
A crash on the M5 at Exeter was causing long delays this evening, Thursday, November 14. There were tailbacks on the M5 southbound at junction 30. (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
A crash is causing tailbacks on the motorway this morning.
At around 10.15am on Saturday, March 11, tailbacks were seen on both sides of the road heading into Waddesdon following the incident.
Congestion can be frequent and unpredictable, and with motorists diverting onto local roads to avoid tailbacks, this causes difficulties for neighbouring communities.
Tailbacks went as far as the M55, with drivers struggling to join the M6 heading south.
The road, which is a dual carriageway, has tailbacks in both directions.
A crash on the M5 at Exeter was causing long delays this evening, Thursday, November 14. There were tailbacks on the M5 southbound at junction 30.
He also posted six sacks and nine hurries as a defensive star who was able to tackle in open space, stuff tailbacks at the line and get to the quarterback.
He has captured the tailbacks from Switch Island heading towards Kirkby.
Huge tailbacks were caused around the major road at different points over the past few months.
I have to deviate routes regularly, and I get stuck in tailbacks while navigating around my regular customers and it affects my timekeeping.
It led to massive tailbacks on the A55 and congestions on the local road network.
Major tailbacks have been reported between the Bellfield Interchange and Grassyards Interchange following the smash involving the HGV lorry.
North East Live Traffic is reporting delays on the Tyne Bridge with tailbacks under the Swan House roundabout.
The crash was first reported at 10.20am this morning, Friday, May 17. Tailbacks are building at a key junction.
The incident closed all northbound lanes and created tailbacks of over 90 minutes.
The motorway usually carries between 4,000 and 6,000 vehicles in each direction every hour, so if enough people ignore the warnings not to travel it could spark long tailbacks.
There are approx 4 miles of tailbacks which takes time and must be done safely.
There are tailbacks of nearly 700 metres on the A6068 travelling south towards the motorway, outside Shuttleworth Cottage in Hapton.
There were tailbacks between Viney Lane and the Rawridge turn-off on the A30 through Devon.
The scheme will require holidaymakers to undergo biometric checks, meaning there could be huge tailbacks at ports such as Dover.
Common combinations with tailbacks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tailbacks on 7×
- tailbacks were 3×
- with tailbacks 3×
- were tailbacks 2×
- tailbacks at 2×
- the tailbacks 2×
- huge tailbacks 2×
- massive tailbacks 2×
- tailbacks of 2×
- tailbacks which 2×