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tongue
noun as in language
Example Sentences
After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.
Language was no barrier; just about every tongue on the planet was babbling away, caught up in the elaborate mystique of a cult.
Sata, who was known as King Cobra because of his sharp tongue, was thought to have been seriously ill for some time.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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