tongued
IPA: tˈʌŋd
adjective
- Resembling a tongue.
- (in combination) Having a particular manner of speaking.
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Examples of "tongued" in Sentences
- [F] rom the start, she was ferociously tart-tongued.
- Got anything sharp-tongued to say about that, Mr Cleese?
- Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
- I have a little more sharp-tongued arguments in my motions than is thought wise by some.
- This tank should be "tongued" and dressed with red lead, or lined with zinc, to render it waterproof.
- It is the noise the attempt would make in the world that would breed the subsequent attempts, by unsettling the rickety minds of men who envy the criminal his vast notoriety -- his obscure name tongued by stupendous
- When the boy had torn the steaming carcass across and cooled it, Jerry's meal began; nor did the meal cease till the last sliver of meat had been stripped and tongued from the bones and the bones crunched and crackled to fragments and swallowed.
- When the boy had torn the steaming carcass across and cooled it, Jerry’s meal began; nor did the meal cease till the last sliver of meat had been stripped and tongued from the bones and the bones crunched and crackled to fragments and swallowed.
- [013] The first travelling boat, which was built by way of experiment, was planked differently from these two; the planks, which were of half-inch oak, being ingeniously "tongued" together with copper, in order to save the necessity of caulking in case of the wood shrinking.
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