tongue
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Starchy soups feel less pasty on the tongue.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
Designed by the winners and probably stitched by the losers, it depicts alliances and double-dealings, the slaughter of a dynasty, and the rebirth of a nation under foreign laws and a hybrid tongue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
He remains true to his Punjabi roots, wears his turban as a sign of pride, and sings in his mother tongue.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
And perhaps just as importantly, “Sandbag Saturday” rolled off the tongue a lot better.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
“Daisy,” I said, “I’m sick all over but it’s not my tongue that’s sick. What are you going to do now?”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
"Petermann Glacier has long been one of Greenland's largest remaining ice tongues," says Garbo.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
Eventually, she spoke in tongues at worship services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
As a finicky eater who happens to be queer, Black and disabled, I wouldn’t touch durian, duck tongues or most of the basket items on the Food Network TV show, “Chopped.”
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
The cinematic commercial got tongues wagging online last week and capped a crazy run of lengthy, star-studded videos dropping ahead of the Fifa Men's World Cup.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
According to the baroque rules that govern fey tongues, everything he said was true enough, so long as you concentrate only on the words.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Folktales and fairy tales since the Middle Ages have vilified the wolf as “the Devil, red tongued, sulfur breathed, and yellow eyed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Some tongued plugs of tobacco and munched on day-old Domino’s Pizza.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2019
And witnessing that kind of droopy tongued joy has a way of rubbing off, and a way of making all those dog park visits and day care bills worth it.
From The Verge ● Nov. 8, 2015
Stoll, who was so good in the first season of House of Cards, plays the villain Yellow Jacket and Michael Douglas plays an aging, sharp tongued Hank Pym.
From Forbes ● Jul. 27, 2014
“I. .. own ... stores,” he roared, one word at a time, thick tongued.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
In general, these stories have a similar pleasure to tonguing a burn on the roof of one’s mouth—their pain is compulsive and satisfying, cathartic, in the most traditional, dramaturgical sense of the term.
From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020
The strike of a hammer on the calf’s exposed femur revealed marrow with no resemblance to the pasty, whitish substance that domestic dogs are so fond of tonguing out of animal bones.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2017
Anyone can restore the "speaking-swinging" style to Bach by singing it with the old flute tonguing: did'll did'll, or even the scat syllables: da ba da ba of the Swingle Singers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sample tonguing: "Ulla, ulla, unga, unga garah, atta alia ungaraze."
From Time Magazine Archive
The dog tackled Rutilio and gave his face a thorough tonguing.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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