TONGUE in a Sentence
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266 example sentences for TONGUE, such as:
1. A good tongue is a good weapon.
2. Scarlett put out her tongue at her.
3. False tongue will hardly speak truth.
4. A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
5. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
2. Scarlett put out her tongue at her.
3. False tongue will hardly speak truth.
4. A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
5. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of TONGUE
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tongue
n. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
n. any long thin projection that is transient
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 The words had been on his tongue all the evening, but now that he had spoken them they struck him as inexpressibly vulgar and out of place.
2 "There's none in the County can touch you, nor in the state," he informed his mount, with pride, the brogue of County Meath still heavy on his tongue in spite of thirty-nine years in America.
3 There was indignation in his hoarse bass voice but also a wheedling note, and Scarlett teasingly clicked her tongue against her teeth as she reached out to pull his cravat into place.
4 Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
5 "He has a rough tongue, but he is a gentleman," Gerald had definitely arrived.
6 Scarlett put out her tongue at her.
7 "That's all you know," said Scarlett, putting out her tongue and refusing to lose her good humor.
8 Suddenly she found her tongue and just as suddenly all the years of Ellen's teachings fell away, and the forthright Irish blood of Gerald spoke from his daughter's lips.
9 I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head.
10 She could have bitten off her tongue for that slip, for he laughed softly as he crossed Gerald's legs.
11 "Mother of Sorrows," moaned Gerald, moving a thickly furred tongue around parched lips.
12 It was this knowledge that checked her tongue when he annoyed her.
13 She knew that his elaborate gallantries and his florid speeches were all done with his tongue in his cheek.
14 Tom and the lazy long-legged twins with their love of gossip and their absurd practical jokes and Boyd who had the grace of a dancing master and the tongue of a wasp.
15 Now, her emotions were sharpened by her long dreams of him, heightened by the repression she had been forced to put on her tongue.
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
1 Govern your thoughts when alone, and your tongue when in company.
2 He clicked his tongue to attract their attention.
3 His heart cannot be pure whose tongue is not clear.
4 Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
5 A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.
6 False tongue will hardly speak truth.
7 A false tongue will hardly speak truth.
8 Turn your tongue seven times before speaking.
9 Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.
10 Two ears to one tongue, therefore hear twice as much as you speak.
11 Instead of injecting drugs into toes, they mainlined themselves under the tongue.
12 He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere.
13 A good tongue is a good weapon.
14 He cannot speak well that cannot hold his tongue.
15 When the heart is full, the tongue will speak.