tongue

Designed by the winners and probably stitched by the losers, it depicts alliances and double-dealings, the slaughter of a dynasty, and the rebirth of a nation under foreign laws and a hybrid tongue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

He remains true to his Punjabi roots, wears his turban as a sign of pride, and sings in his mother tongue.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Garbo and an international group of researchers have been relying on remote sensing to monitor Petermann Glacier and follow changes in its floating ice tongue.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

And perhaps just as importantly, “Sandbag Saturday” rolled off the tongue a lot better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Grandma would look at my teeth, my tongue, and my tonsils; and way on down into my throat.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Eventually, she spoke in tongues at worship services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

But they disappeared from the airwaves in the 1980s after the government launched a campaign to encourage Chinese residents to use Mandarin instead of their various tongues.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

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

Her name was on the tip of many tongues.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2026

The glittering girls, the ones with split tongues and pinchy fingers, whispered.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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