tongue
Example Sentences
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She went ahead with the treatment and had an operation to remove half of her tongue, making speech very difficult.
From BBC
He dropped his English name, James, and resolved to write only in the language of the Kikuyu people, his mother tongue.
“I wanted our house to feel really warm and bring nature inside,” says Lindsay, referring to the Western hemlock tongue and groove planks that she and Daniel installed on the walls and ceilings.
From Los Angeles Times
It was a slip of the tongue, but one that could have been corrected immediately.
From BBC
The ring for this match was oversized, roughly the square footage of Wyoming, providing Paul plenty of room to run, skip, backpedal, and, weirdly, flick a lizard tongue at a circling Joshua.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
