tongue
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Over several years, the team has tracked expanding fractures and growing evidence that the glacier's floating ice tongue was becoming unstable.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Although not everyone is bound to hold their tongue.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2026
Lu, who has protuberant light brown eyes, small black ears and a floppy tongue, loves to snuggle with her four-legged foster siblings and stretch out in the sun, according to the contest website.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
I eat it standing, careful not to scald my tongue.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Luckily, I had a lie ready on my tongue.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
Eventually, she spoke in tongues at worship services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
By flicking their forked tongues, they collect chemical signals from the air that help them locate potential prey.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 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
When me and Jay got up on Saturday, we shoveled hot Cream of Rice cereal into our mouths, then huffed and puffed to cool it down as the steaming grain burned our tongues.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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
Some of the most affecting moments were created by the flutist Claire Chase in conversation with the bassoonist Rebekah Heller as they traded gestures that were now liquid and vague, now sharply tongued and percussive.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 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
Sample tonguing: "Ulla, ulla, unga, unga garah, atta alia ungaraze."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The dog tackled Rutilio and gave his face a thorough tonguing.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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