tongue

He contorted his tongue or lips to reach the high notes, and it was all hilarious.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Starchy soups feel less pasty on the tongue.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

Hindbrain neurons also direct muscles in the face, tongue and throat that are important for speaking and swallowing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

He remains true to his Punjabi roots, wears his turban as a sign of pride, and sings in his mother tongue.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

The lie rolls off his tongue like it’s a fact, and I wait for him to realize that he’s got it wrong.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 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

The cinematic commercial got tongues wagging online last week and capped a crazy run of lengthy, star-studded videos dropping ahead of the Fifa Men's World Cup.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

Once Ash leaves, and we’ve both blown enough heat from our cider so we can drink it without burning our tongues, Meadowlark asks, “Has your mom said anything else to you yet?”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

“I. .. own ... stores,” he roared, one word at a time, thick tongued.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

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