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Posting on social media on Saturday, Carragher said his comments were intended to be "tongue in cheek".

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Like breath strips, they dissolve on the tongue, claiming a faster way to better sleep, healthier skin and other benefits.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Starchy soups feel less pasty on the tongue.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

She’s from Japan, he’s from Mexico, their native languages intertwining at home, although you could argue their shared tongue is actually ballroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

I grab the cold bottle and take a sip, letting the fizz burn on my tongue.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

But the idea is sure to get tongues wagging - and headline writers scribbling.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

I’d been baptized and raised in a mainstream Kentucky Protestant church, but my father had shared childhood stories of snake handling and speaking in tongues in his Pentecostal Appalachian congregation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

A great many dogs run up to me, tails wagging, tongues lolling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

By flicking their forked tongues, they collect chemical signals from the air that help them locate potential prey.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Women had to draw drinking water straight from the river, while they clucked their tongues and told stories of women fallen to crocodiles in other dry years, which were never as dry as this one.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

Some of the most affecting moments were created by the flutist Claire Chase in conversation with the bassoonist Rebekah Heller as they traded gestures that were now liquid and vague, now sharply tongued and percussive.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older