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Example sentences for "native tongue"

  • She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired.

  • I have not that command of the language that I have of my native tongue.

  • Then he turned to the negroes, and spoke to them for several minutes in scraps of Portuguese and a native tongue.

  • Move forward a few paces out of the shadow," it said in a native tongue.

  • Nares ran forward to meet them, calling to them in a native tongue, but it was not evident that they understood him, for they ran on.

  • Once did I see her take with fond embrace This Infant to herself; and I, next day, Endeavoured in my native tongue to trace Such things as she unto the Child might say: 1820.

  • Once, having seen her take with fond embrace This Infant to herself, I framed a lay, Endeavouring, in my native tongue, to trace 1827.

  • Though I experience no difficulty in expressing myself in the English language, still it is not my native tongue, and I sometimes feel as if I might have said some things better if I had said them in German.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brown paper; dead wood; dear comrade; electric torch; mind about; mother will; native city; native industry; native life; native name; native officer; native officers; native soldiers; native town; native troops; native village; native woman; native women; natives were; our way; sacred things; successful termination; that case; twelve minutes; went right; when twenty