tongue

Starchy soups feel less pasty on the tongue.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Designed by the winners and probably stitched by the losers, it depicts alliances and double-dealings, the slaughter of a dynasty, and the rebirth of a nation under foreign laws and a hybrid tongue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

He remains true to his Punjabi roots, wears his turban as a sign of pride, and sings in his mother tongue.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

“Here’s a coyote with her face swollen to the point where her eyes are shut and her tongue is hanging out, surviving in the Valley in 100-degree heat,” Rulon said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

I still had my arms around Rowdy and was trying to dodge his lapping tongue when I saw a movement from the corner of my eye.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

"Petermann Glacier has long been one of Greenland's largest remaining ice tongues," says Garbo.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Eventually, she spoke in tongues at worship services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

But they disappeared from the airwaves in the 1980s after the government launched a campaign to encourage Chinese residents to use Mandarin instead of their various tongues.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 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

Drums had begun to beat, the fire was blazing fiercely, great long orange tongues consuming the fuel and thrusting upwards and sometimes outwards as if to engulf the watchers.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

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