Example sentences for: tongue-tied

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

  • (At last year's Time magazine anniversary gala, I found myself positively tongue-tied, embarrassingly adolescent in my awkwardness, on being introduced to Lauren Bacall.)

  • The tongue-tied lion of Bill Irwin is so eloquent in his inarticulateness that I never wanted him to leave the stage.

  • Now we are in Paris, in the cold and the dark, homeless and friendless and tongue-tied.

  • Like father like son : Inside the NYT George W. is compared to his "famously tongue-tied father."


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