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
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
THE PRESIDENT: But I thought I had a silver tongue.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2019
It was a bother to be stopped on the road in a Free State when the lost property turned out to have a silver tongue.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
