Explore Tongue through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like delivery or speech. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tongue in a sentence
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Tongue meaning
- The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech.
- Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows).
- Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
Synonyms of Tongue
Tongue vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Tongue
- The main meaning on this page is: The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech. | Such an organ, as taken from animals and used for food (especially from cows). | Any similar organ, such as the lingual ribbon, or odontophore, of a mollusk; the proboscis of a moth or butterfly; or the lingua of an insect.
- Useful related words include: clapper, delivery, speech, manner of speaking.
- Possible Dutch translations are: tong.
- In the example corpus, tongue often appears in combinations such as: the tongue, tongue and, his tongue.
Example sentences (20)
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence recommends cleaning the tongue with a tongue scraper, particularly the rear upper part of the tongue, where bacteria builds up.
If it is smoked too quickly, it can produce excess moisture causing a gurgling sound in the pipe and an uncomfortable sensation on the tongue (referred to as "pipe tongue", or more commonly, "tongue bite").
Tongue enjoys breath-taking views over the Kyle of Tongue, Ben Loyal and Ben Hope.
A836 Lairg to Tongue: Road closed due to snow on A836 both ways from Lairg to Tongue.
After getting the tongue DNA tested, Danvers confirmed that the tongue belonged to Annie.
A tongue thrust happens when the tongue pushes forward through the front teeth when talking, swallowing, or when at rest.
Studies in a nummer o countries hae shown that lernin bairns in their ain tongue, the tongue o hame, gies a heeze tae their confidence, bit mair nor that tae their achievement in ither subjecks, an aa, sic-like Maths and English.
Tongue thrust is when a person pushes their tongue forward rather than to the roof of their mouth when they swallow, which over time creates a gap.
Your Eyewitness is more disposed to calling them “forked tongue”, since while that also means saying one thing and meaning another, it evokes the “forked tongue” of snakes, which are known for their treachery — and eagerness to strike!
After the ability of the patient to use their shoulder to assess the accessory nerve (XI), and the patient's tongue function is assessed by observing various tongue movements.
As part of Colombian gastronomy, Tongue in Sauce (Lengua en Salsa), is a dish prepared by frying the tongue, adding tomato sauce, onions and salt.
Clinical significance Disease main A congenital disorder of the tongue is that of ankyloglossia also known as tongue-tie.
Daniel Jones developed the cardinal vowel system to describe vowels in terms of the features of tongue height (vertical dimension), tongue backness (horizontal dimension) and roundedness (lip articulation).
Extrinsic Lateral view of the tongue, with extrinsic muscles highlighted The four extrinsic muscles originate from bone and extend to the tongue.
For example, teeth marks on one part of the tongue might indicate a problem with the Heart, while teeth marks on another part of the tongue might indicate a problem with the Liver.
Here the back of the tongue is used to create a vacuum in the mouth, causing air to rush in when the forward occlusion (tongue or lips) is released.
Here, the child spoke her innocent childish tongue, and the father interpreted her offer with his passionate adult sexual tongue.
His similitude is that of a dog: if you attack him, he lolls out his tongue, or if you leave him alone, he (still) lolls out his tongue.
In addition, the nickname "Çhengey ny Mayrey" (the mother tongue/tongue of the mother) is occasionally used.
In and around eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, surgical interventions for stuttering were recommended, including cutting the tongue with scissors, removing a triangular wedge from the posterior tongue, and cutting nerves, or neck and lip muscles.
Common combinations with tongue
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tongue 54×
- tongue and 21×
- his tongue 13×
- mother tongue 13×
- tongue of 11×
- and tongue 9×
- tongue in 8×
- my tongue 8×
- her tongue 8×
- tongue is 7×