tongue

Flower selection varies based on nutritional needs, body size, tongue length, and feeding habits.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026

He speaks and reads Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, though perhaps he addresses his tenants in Brittonic, the Celtic tongue of the British Iron Age.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Says Delgado Lopera, quoting Pedro Lemebel: “I could write with no tongue, like a newscaster on CNN, no accent and hold the salt,” Lemebel wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

A national treasure of a pairing which rolls off the tongue like Morecambe and Wise or Punch and Judy.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

“His trust! That—that—man . . .” He deserved to be called worse, but in the wood-paneled office, I couldn’t debase myself to use the words that were on the tip of my tongue.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

As a finicky eater who happens to be queer, Black and disabled, I wouldn’t touch durian, duck tongues or most of the basket items on the Food Network TV show, “Chopped.”

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

The cinematic commercial got tongues wagging online last week and capped a crazy run of lengthy, star-studded videos dropping ahead of the Fifa Men's World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

As temperatures continue rising around the Antarctic Peninsula, more glaciers are losing their protective ice tongues and becoming tidewater glaciers, meaning their termini rest directly on the seabed.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

"Nauru emerged because Naoero could not be properly pronounced by foreign tongues, and was changed not by our choice, but for convenience," the government said in a statement explaining the change.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Their long pink tongues touched up every berry from her hands, eagerly flicking them from her fingers as fast as she could pick.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

Folktales and fairy tales since the Middle Ages have vilified the wolf as “the Devil, red tongued, sulfur breathed, and yellow eyed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Some tongued plugs of tobacco and munched on day-old Domino’s Pizza.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 13, 2019

And witnessing that kind of droopy tongued joy has a way of rubbing off, and a way of making all those dog park visits and day care bills worth it.

From The Verge ● Nov. 8, 2015

Stoll, who was so good in the first season of House of Cards, plays the villain Yellow Jacket and Michael Douglas plays an aging, sharp tongued Hank Pym.

From Forbes ● Jul. 27, 2014

“I. .. own ... stores,” he roared, one word at a time, thick tongued.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

In general, these stories have a similar pleasure to tonguing a burn on the roof of one’s mouth—their pain is compulsive and satisfying, cathartic, in the most traditional, dramaturgical sense of the term.

From Slate ● Mar. 24, 2020

The strike of a hammer on the calf’s exposed femur revealed marrow with no resemblance to the pasty, whitish substance that domestic dogs are so fond of tonguing out of animal bones.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2017

Sample tonguing: "Ulla, ulla, unga, unga garah, atta alia ungaraze."

From Time Magazine Archive

Anyone can restore the "speaking-swinging" style to Bach by singing it with the old flute tonguing: did'll did'll, or even the scat syllables: da ba da ba of the Swingle Singers.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dog tackled Rutilio and gave his face a thorough tonguing.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older