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Tongue in sentence

555 examples of Tongue in a sentence

It wants to be chanted out loud, to sound its music in the ear and on the tongue.
He wagged his tongue at the baby.
The baby wagged her tongue back.
It can crumble so easily, but don't be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.
My tongue, larynx and vocal cords were still healthy and unaffected.
Because I had lost my jaw, I could no longer form a seal, and therefore my tongue and all of my other vocal equipment was rendered powerless.
There's one in the skull, and then for good measure, I had these other tumors, including, by the time my treatment started, one was growing out of my tongue.
I had kidney cancer growing out of my tongue.
He puts out his tongue in order to remove the maggots, so as not to harm them.
I would look at the tongue.
I remember so many patients, their names still vivid on my tongue, their faces still so clear.
So as you can guess, my mother tongue is French.
You see a cow with its tongue hanging out.
It still freaks me out every time I eat it, but it has a unique ability to mask certain taste receptors on your tongue, so that primarily sour taste receptors, so normally things that would taste very sour or tart, somehow begin to taste very sweet.
But for me, I was an adult and it was embarrassing, and I had to learn how to coordinate my new throat with my tongue and my new teeth and my lips, and capture the air and get the word out.
Music is the most universal language that we have, way more so than any dialect or tongue.
Whatever it is you are struggling to remember, it is not poised on the tip of your tongue, not even lurking in some obscure corner of your spleen.
This two-and-a-half-inch bat has a three-and-a-half-inch tongue, the longest relative to body length of any mammal in the world.
If human, he'd have a nine-foot tongue.
KB: What a tongue.
They cut out his tongue in mockery of his oratory, and no one knows what they did with his body.
What she was referring to was the fact that I could switch off the twang and slip into a native tongue, and so I chose to let her in on a few other things which locate me as a Motswana, not just by virtue of the fact that I speak a language or I have family there, but that a rural child lives within this shiny visage of fabulosity.
It means wearing my pride through my grandmother's tongue, my mother's food, my grandfather's song, my skin etched with stories of falling off donkeys and years and years and years of sleeping under a blanket of stars.
If you drop sugar water on the tongue of a newborn infant, the opioid-liking system sets off fireworks.
If you are willing to do this, you can take a couple of drops of a bitter substance or a sour substance, and you'll see that face, the tongue stick out, the wrinkled nose, as if they're trying to get rid of what's in their mouth.
The next time you're on an airplane in the US, just speak your mother tongue.
The kind of infraction today that would give you a fine, in those days would result in your tongue being cut out, your ears being cut off, you being blinded, a hand being chopped off and so on.
It supports your tongue from behind.
It kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?
Arabic is the mother tongue.
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