silver tongue
Example Sentences
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With a rubber hand and a silver tongue, he turns his sales into crowded spectacles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
Penelope lacks the silver tongue and easy charm of other young debutantes.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
An earnest man who lacked the silver tongue of other civil rights orators, Mr. Lewis could be pugnacious, tenacious and single-minded, and he led with a force that commanded attention.
From New York Times ● Jul. 17, 2020
All the same, his silver tongue is firmly in his vain cheek.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 5, 2020
She thought of his hair as silver, to go along with his silver tongue, which he used trying to talk her into buying diesel Cadillacs with red-leather interiors.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
