tongue

Example Sentences

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“Offal wasn’t rationed during the war, and my mother resorted to the sort of food she’d eaten as a child: tripe and onions, brains, tongue and braised rabbit,” he told the Independent in 2009.

From The Wall Street Journal

For the first time in their history, the English possessed, in their own hands and in their native tongue, the entire New Testament.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the video, the snake flicks its tongue, a common sensory behavior used to detect chemical cues in the air and identify nearby prey or potential predators.

From Los Angeles Times

You put a little bit under your tongue and it dissolves, and it’s got like every single mineral in it.

From Los Angeles Times

Her tongue escaped the side of her mouth as she labored.

From Literature