silver tongue

Example Sentences

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With a rubber hand and a silver tongue, he turns his sales into crowded spectacles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

But his silver tongue still played its part, popping up at the close in the Big Brother room.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2020

Edmond Rostand’s play about a man with a silver tongue and a less precious schnozz returns courtesy of the New Group.

From New York Times • Oct. 10, 2019

I always thought I had a silver tongue.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2019

She thought of his hair as silver, to go along with his silver tongue, which he used trying to talk her into buying diesel Cadillacs with red-leather interiors.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston