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
All the same, his silver tongue is firmly in his vain cheek.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2020
Edmond Rostand’s play about a man with a silver tongue and a less precious schnozz returns courtesy of the New Group.
From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2019
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
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