Search
Search verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Tail
Tail verb - To go after or on the track of.
Usage example: tailed my brother-in-law to see where he was going at that time of the evening
How words are described
| full | full search | full tail |
| long | long search | long tail |
| short | short search | short tail |
| actual | actual search | actual tail |
| Other adjectives: entire, massive, big, huge, new. | ||
Common collocations
| ship | search ship | tail ship |
Both words in one sentence
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: The bunnicorn◊, an adorable, pink-and-white bunny-like creature with a long, fluffy tail and a unicorn horn, which likes to search for flowers to bring to its master.
Source: Video Game / Rage of Bahamut -
An American Tail has a few of these, and Fievel, a child in search of his family, nearly becomes one himself.
Source: Street Urchin -
Fairy Tail: In the Fantasia arc, Laxus and his crew turn the girls to stone, and threaten to shatter them unless the guys search the town for and defeat them.
Source: Skewed Priorities
Cite this Source
Tail and Search. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/search/tail
Search & Tail. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/search/tail>.
Tail or Search. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/search/tail.
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