tongue

But El-Sayed, who does not lack confidence, didn’t always keep his tongue in check.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

“But when you speak in your mother tongue, your body tenses up a bit because you think, ‘I understand the full emotional spectrum of what I’m talking about.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

While popular variations use turkey, roast beef, pastrami and other deli meats, the original version on offer at the 99-year-old Town Hall Delicatessen is still made with ham and beef tongue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026

Flower selection varies based on nutritional needs, body size, tongue length, and feeding habits.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026

I bit my tongue to keep from saying something I shouldn’t and turned to see Serina watching me, her arms propped lazily on the mattress as she stood on the bunk below mine.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

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

As temperatures continue rising around the Antarctic Peninsula, more glaciers are losing their protective ice tongues and becoming tidewater glaciers, meaning their termini rest directly on the seabed.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

Pacific island Nauru said it will hold a referendum to change its official name, described as a colonial relic from a time when "foreign tongues" mangled the native language.

From Barron's ● May 13, 2026

Today — April 1st — we imagine, with our tongues blithely thrust deep into our cheeks, just how far wellness trends could go in 2026.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

Misha’s little cousins each touched their tongues to the wine and then passed it on with a grimace.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

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

Each note is tongued, but it’s a lyrical line.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2023

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

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