tongue-tied

Example Sentences

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At times, Raman was tongue-tied trying to answer simple questions.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Giamatti watchers may have a hard time imagining the actor tongue-tied.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2024

Speech production is a complex neural phenomenon that has left researchers explaining it tongue-tied.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2023

“There wasn’t …” It was the first time I’d ever seen Harry tongue-tied.

From Slate • May 27, 2023

And she knew that Nana would get to do the things that she—brown and tongue-tied and full of the wrong kinds of words—could not.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez