tongue-tied
Example Sentences
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Yet, that she made it at all makes every frame feel personal, and you hear her affection for the cadence of her occasionally tongue-tied subjects.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025
Still others remained tongue-tied about the “quandary” at hand, as Florida Sen. Marco Rubio put it.
From Slate • Feb. 27, 2024
Giamatti watchers may have a hard time imagining the actor tongue-tied.
From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2024
Speech production is a complex neural phenomenon that has left researchers explaining it tongue-tied.
From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023
Mom glowed as she described how nervous and tongue-tied she’d been during the interview.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
