Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "tongue"

Lexicographically close words:
tong; tonge; tonges; tonging; tongs; tongued; tongueing; tongueless; tongues; tonguey
  1. Peace wilfull Boy, or I will charme your tongue Clar.

  2. Then Executioner vnsheath thy sword: By him that made vs all, I am resolu'd, That Cliffords Manhood, lyes vpon his tongue Ed.

  3. Who euer got thee, there thy Mother stands, For well I wot, thou hast thy Mothers tongue Qu.

  4. Jack flashed out a pink tongue and licked his master's chin to show how little he was worried over the threat, and went racing along at the end of the leash, taking Swan's trail and his own back to where they had climbed out of the canyon.

  5. He licked his lips, looked over his shoulder at Swan, and draped his pink tongue down over his lower jaw again.

  6. For answer Jack thumped his tail on the dirt floor and sniffed the breeze, taking in his overlapping tongue while he did so.

  7. Lone nodded, not daring to trust his tongue with speech just then.

  8. They were coming down upon her at a sharp trot, stepping high, the wagon tongue thrust up between their heads as they tried to hold back the load.

  9. It was on Lone's tongue to ask why the doctor had not taken in the order himself and instructed some one to bring out the things; but he remembered how very busy with its own affairs was Echo and decided that the doctor was wise.

  10. Ay, I have worked fair hard at it," said Tom; "but my difficulty is getting my tongue round the words.

  11. Tom felt his tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth.

  12. Be kind enough to look at my tongue and tell me if there are any little swellings on it?

  13. A basin of smoother water and the yellow tongue of a sand-beach lay beyond it at the foot of a line of high rocks.

  14. Sally hardly spoke as we toiled up the stony hill in the dark beneath a pouring rain, and I, too, felt my tongue tied in an embarrassed silence.

  15. Poor Denah lost her temper, and lost her head, and lost control of her tongue and her tears.

  16. Anna was at once fired with a desire to make herself a cool morning dress, and asked a dozen questions as to how, while Denah's busy fingers undid the faulty crochet work, and her tongue explained the mistakes.

  17. If a Sarcee trapper had followed down the nameless creek and had caught the patriarch and chief of the colony, he would at once have judged him to be very old and his Indian tongue would have given him a name.

  18. With her warm tongue she would lick away the ice that froze to the long hair between Kazan's toes.

  19. From out of it there leaped that lightning tongue of flame that Kazan had always dreaded, and he heard the hissing song of the death-bee over his head.

  20. Two came in from the side, and Kazan's solitary howl gave place to the wild tongue of the pack.

  21. Gently she soothed with her soft tongue Kazan's bleeding wounds.

  22. Bud what aboot a man's tongue 'at must needs gan off as soon as it 's gotten to know seummut, an' tell it to ivverybody?

  23. And licked him up like a tongue of avenging flame by the big range.

  24. His tongue appeared reflectively in his cheek for a moment, and his keen eye fixed the far wall on a nice point of remembrance.

  25. He had committed a great crime, led on by a love of lucre, and the weight of it pressed upon his tongue and closed his lips; he knew not what to say.

  26. Already you knew the story of the dead girl, Benita da Ferreira, and that story you re-enacted, talking the tongue she used as you would have talked Greek or any other tongue, had it been hers.

  27. Have you more words for me, O Beautiful One, with a tongue of oil and a wit that cuts like steel?

  28. Although he knew no tongue but English, this clairvoyant child is declared to have repeated in Portuguese the prayers these unfortunates offered up, and even to have sung the very hymns they sang.

  29. For although you do not wield the sword, you employ your poisonous tongue to the shame and hurt of your neighbor.

  30. Then, that we do not employ our tongue to instigate or counsel thereto.

  31. In the third place, what concerns us all, this commandment forbids all sins of the tongue whereby we may injure or approach too closely to our neighbor.

  32. As the First Commandment has instructed the heart and taught [the basis of] faith, so this commandment leads us forth and directs the mouth and tongue to God.

  33. And joy was with the multitude, And gladness on the earth, The tongue of every living thing Rang with a sound of mirth.

  34. I've been bossing Greasers and Italians and was forced to learn their language to get results, and now I want to speak my mother tongue to my old friends.

  35. Billy's face flamed at thought of the embarrassing trap his glib tongue had led him into.

  36. Mother Jenks pressed the flask to his blue lips; as the brandy bit his tongue he rolled his fiery head in feeble protest and weakly set his teeth against the lip of the flask.

  37. Your tongue is the only part of you that I cannot control.

  38. His Highness commenced helping those about him most plentifully from a large pillau, talking all the while most merrily in broken English, or resorting to Hindostanee and his interpreter whenever his tongue got into trouble.

  39. Your tongue never gets you into mischief.

  40. Oh, could you but feel What my tongue must reveal-- How much I love you, My dear Donoghue!

  41. It is not I her fame should blaze, But still my tongue unbid will praise A life she spends in seeking ways To cure all human care.

  42. The fruit had all been plucked, or fell, And made more ill than tongue can tell.

  43. I couldn't find anything in her pockets, and just then a bloke who had heard her giving tongue comes along, and he begins shouting 'Police!

  44. After examining this the doctor told him that his stomach could not be out of order, as his tongue was perfectly clean.

  45. Elizabeth found her tongue for a moment only, but that was enough for her lover.

  46. Belle Breloques can always talk, and now her tongue rattles faster then ever, till the languid one arouses himself like a giant refreshed, and gives her as good as he gets.

  47. However, I took him along very easily, giving him the benefit of the roll of my tongue as to what he should do, and before he reached the polling-booth he recovered and voted for the Tory.

  48. For lies never came easily to the tongue of Lite Avery.

  49. He had thought until his brain felt heavy and stupid; and the last cigarette he lighted; he threw away, for he had smoked until his tongue was sore.

  50. Himself added, "You are a romantic idiot, and I love you more than tongue can tell.

  51. These wheels are coupled together by an axletree, into which a tongue is inserted.

  52. He speaks a tongue (language it cannot be called) peculiar to himself, and scarcely intelligible.

  53. On the axletree and tongue rests a frame, constructed of square pieces of timber, six or eight feet in length, and four or five in breadth, into which are inserted a number of stakes about, four feet in length.

  54. The rough side of her tongue rasps like a file!

  55. Ten minutes at least Uncle Joseph and the stable boy butted and tugged and swore, ere, to use the expression of the latter, they could "make tongue and buckle meet.

  56. Ought I to have told you long ago, or ought I to have held my tongue for ever?

  57. And yet Miss Stanley endures it," said Miss Custer, and could have bitten her tongue the next moment.

  58. Eve tried to speak, but the sudden fright of his unexpected presence seemed to have dried up her throat and tongue and taken away all power of utterance.

  59. A little tongue of land runs from the garden into the marsh, an elevation of the original shell-mound, covered with oaks hung with long gray moss.

  60. Horses and tongue were already removed, the former being turned into the tavern pasture and the latter stowed in the tavern barn.

  61. It is well for the interests of knowledge that the English tongue receives without difficulty new and needful contributions to the ancient stock.

  62. The Biscayans firmly hold their Euscaran idiom to have been the tongue of Adam and Eve in Paradise, and consequently the universal language of primitive man and the fountain-head of all others.

  63. This comparative scarcity of inhabitants is principally owing to the want of space for further extension on the narrow tongue of land on which the town is chiefly built.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tongue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aftertaste; alveolus; apex; back; bar; bell; bill; bitter; blade; blow; breakwater; bugle; chime; clapper; clarion; delta; dialect; doodle; doorbell; fife; flavor; flute; giblets; gizzard; gong; gust; head; headland; heart; hook; idiom; intestine; kidney; language; lap; larynx; lick; lingo; lip; lips; liver; locution; marrow; mouth; palate; parlance; parol; parole; peninsula; pharynx; phraseology; pipe; point; pole; promontory; reef; relish; rod; salt; savor; scape; scold; smack; sound; sour; speaking; speech; spit; spur; stalk; stem; stick; stomach; string; sweet; sweetbread; talk; tang; teeth; tip; tongue; toot; tooth; tootle; triangle; tripe; trumpet; tweedle; usage; utterance; vocable; voice; whistle; wind; word