tongue

In a mealy apple, he said, “instead of those cells rupturing, they kind of just shear apart from one another, and that gets left on your tongue as that grainy texture.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2026

Oropharyngeal cancer affects the middle portion of the throat, including areas such as the tonsils and base of the tongue.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 2026

She’d also be the first mayor whose native tongue wasn’t English since Bernard Cohn, who grew up speaking German in Prussia and served as mayor for two weeks in 1878.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Rachael Field, 56, from Rhondda Cynon Taf, who has tongue cancer, was first diagnosed six years ago.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

Clicking his tongue and shaking his head, he said, “That is a nasty cut but the tendon hasn’t been hurt at all. I hate to see anything crippled like that. It’s pitiful.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

Some went on to become Premier League stars, others became cult heroes, one-season wonders or bargain buys who got virtual tongues wagging.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Petermann Glacier has long been one of Greenland's largest remaining ice tongues," says Garbo.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026

Eventually, she spoke in tongues at worship services.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 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

At the sound of his whistle, the dogs ran to Old Timothy’s feet and sat in four neat rows, tongues out, their droopy ears lifted, waiting for his next command.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood

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

For his part, Verdi spoke nothing but praise about his acid- tongued contemporary, writing that Tristan und Isolde was ‘one of the finest creations that has ever issued from a human mind’.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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

That she was lewd, tonguing her teeth at them, upside down and dying, that she vomited a serpent that turned to smoke when it hit the ground.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor