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
Penelope lacks the silver tongue and easy charm of other young debutantes.
From Salon ● May 17, 2024
But his silver tongue still played its part, popping up at the close in the Big Brother room.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2020
Or somebody with a silver tongue who gets nothing done?
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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