TONGUE in a Sentence

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Now, her emotions were sharpened by her long dreams of him, heightened by the repression she had been forced to put on her tongue.

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 Meanings and Examples of TONGUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tongue
 n.  organ situated in floor of mouth
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  "He has a rough tongue, but he is a gentleman," Gerald had definitely arrived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Scarlett put out her tongue at her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  "That's all you know," said Scarlett, putting out her tongue and refusing to lose her good humor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  She could have bitten off her tongue for that slip, for he laughed softly as he crossed Gerald's legs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
11  "Mother of Sorrows," moaned Gerald, moving a thickly furred tongue around parched lips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
12  It was this knowledge that checked her tongue when he annoyed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  She knew that his elaborate gallantries and his florid speeches were all done with his tongue in his cheek.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (56 in 4 pages)
16  The tongue is not made of steel, yet it cuts.
17  The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
18  Let not your tongue cut your throat.
19  The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones.
20  The head is recognized by the tongue.
21  Despite her sharp tongue, she inspires loyalty from her friends.
22  Her pupils often got the rough edge of her tongue when they disobeyed her.
23  The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.
24  The tongue ever turns to the aching teeth.
25  Everyone knows now, thanks to Ken's loose tongue.
26  A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.
27  A still tongue makes a wise head.
28  The fool has his heart on his tongue, the wise man keeps his tongue in his heart.
29  What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.
30  A honey tongue, a heart of gall.