lingual

Example Sentences

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If you want to experience all three at once, it requires a level of lingual dexterity that might require you to grow a second mouth.

From Seattle Times

"I had to remove one where the person swished them around in their mouth and they ended up on each side of the lingual frenum—the fleshy piece of tissue underneath our tongue," Kaplan said.

From Salon

So if you love to know that “night” comes from Old English “neaht,” you could play this lingual game all day.

From Fox News

She noticed that his lingual frenulum, the band of tissue under the tongue, was shorter than is typical and was attached close to the tip of his tongue, keeping him from moving it freely.

From Seattle Times

He takes this lingual habit and out of his mouth he erects complete cities — rigorously formed ones, with firehouses and railroad stations and schools and coffee joints and community centers.

From New York Times