Example sentences for: tongue

How can you use “tongue” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I don't think that's just a trick of the tongue.

  • Wouldn't the Slurvian tongue take the most slothful route, avoiding waggle where waggle is avoidable?

  • Many phrases slip over the tongue like liquid velvet.

  • In the heat of the moment, expressions in one language come more quickly to the tongue than expressions in the other--and speakers may never be sure at any time which will provide the next word, phrase, clause, or sentence.

  • So we have a man's tongue "grey as the foot of a goose"; a catfish "the size of a boar hog"; a man who gets ready to take a blow "like a cowed dog"; a night as dark "as the inside of a cow"; an old man whose dugs "hung down like those on a sow hog"--an entire farmyard of likenesses.


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