lingual

Example Sentences

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Davies’ gift for caustic witticisms is at its full strength in these scenes, in which Siegfried, for all his own lingual flair, is often overmatched by his paramours for sheer drawing-room-comedy vitriol.

From Los Angeles Times

She reached for a bit of lingual antiquity and metaphor that tracks closely to her own move to Vermont.

From New York Times

So, if you love to know that "night" comes from Old English "neaht," you could play this lingual game all day.

From Fox News

If you want to experience all three at once, it requires a level of lingual dexterity that might require you to grow a second mouth.

From Seattle Times

"I had to remove one where the person swished them around in their mouth and they ended up on each side of the lingual frenum—the fleshy piece of tissue underneath our tongue," Kaplan said.

From Salon