Example sentences for: tongue

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

  • Bernard Shaw's Professor Henry Higgins liked to vent his ire on his fellow countrymen for “the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.”

  • When we eat, our tongue is bombarded with tastants.

  • Gaelic was the mother tongue in Wigtownshire for twelve centuries, but little trace of it remains in the spoken language today.

  • This probably reflects the distribution of the taste transduction mechanisms in the mouse tongue.

  • But slips of the tongue, phonetic and spelling errors are the least of our word woes.


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