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Example sentences for: tongues
How can you use “tongues” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
As Lysander Kemp reminded us in Mrs. Malaprop in Mexico [XV,4], other tongues have their slips, as well.
But to remind its masters that it can still bite--and reinforce conservative prejudices that it's pink--PBS periodically aired blasphemous dramas ( Steambath , 1973), Mao-symp travelogues (Shirley MacLaine's The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir , 1975), politically provocative docudramas ( Death of a Princess , 1980), lefty attacks on agribiz ( Hungry for Profit , 1985), homoerotica ( Tongues Untied , 1991), and brazen assaults on logical thinking ( The Panama Deception , 1992).
But some very clever comparative linguists, beginning in Germany in the 19th century, theorized about how the nature of the ancestors of the more modern tongues.
The reason is that the damn thing didn't matter and wouldn't unless Bush or maybe McCain began speaking in tongues (or Alan Keyes stopped).
But few materials are available in Mixteco or other indigenous tongues, in part because they barely exist in written form.