How to Use tongued in a Sentence

tongued

adjective

• East of Payson, the Horton Creek Trail chases a silver-tongued stream spilling down the slopes to the base of the rim.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
• In the land of the incoherent, the silver-tongued man is king.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2020
• It’s hard to guess whether the sharp-tongued couturier would have cared either way.
  — Bob Morris, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2019
• Call to mind the Platonic ideal of a lizard—bony, bronze, and flick-tongued, on the sand of a deserted beach.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Aided by her sharp-tongued maid and a weaselly courtier, Catherine plots a coup.
  — The Economist, 6 Mar. 2021
• Saliva is dripping out of the corners of a serpentine-tongued man’s mouth, which hangs open in a toothy smile.
  — Samantha Hissong, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2021
• In Feinberg’s novel, BJ was sharp-tongued and self-absorbed.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2022
• The sharp-tongued woman with the off-color sense of humor all but disappeared last night.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• Mashed potatoes are going on the menu, and Tina, the sharp-tongued, softhearted vegetable cook, has just pulled a sheet pan of whole potatoes from the oven.
  — New York Times, 11 July 2022
• Our Evelyn is stubborn, poison-tongued and sick of being poor.
  — Amy Nicholson, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• For every missing dog tag from a soldier who died in the line of duty, there's a sassy sister with a sharp-tongued retort.
  — Kate Feldman, Star Tribune, 6 Apr. 2021
• How a sharp-tongued boy from the streets of Chicago gave American submarines a nuclear boost.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 11 Feb. 2022
• But there’s no denying that this sharp-tongued party girl makes great television.
  — Patrick Crowley, Billboard, 16 Mar. 2018
• Nora is a sharp-tongued woman trying to hold down a home in the Arizona Territory in 1893.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2019
• It’s the kind of typically sharp-tongued retort the family knew to expect from Philip.
  — Marie Claire, 18 Sep. 2021
• Gobs of half-literate, thick-tongued troglodytes will convene in Shelbyville and Murfreesboro, Tenn., on Saturday to fight for the rights of the great, marginalized white race.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 27 Oct. 2017
• The flooding killed a blue-tongued skink lizard, one of the many animals that call the science and technology museum home.
  — Neal Earley, Arkansas Online, 19 Feb. 2021
• Jen remains, thanks to Applegate, acid-tongued and just black-hearted enough to be delightful.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Nov. 2022
• Clearly, this is a ludicrous response—but why say that when late-night’s sharp-tongued Samantha Bee could say it for us in two minutes flat?
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 11 Oct. 2017
• In the context of the story, Michael (Parsons), a screenwriter who drinks too much, is hosting a birthday party for his friend, the sharp-tongued Harold (Quinto).
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2020
• The Trump-era liberal comedy show, on the other hand, casts its host not as a sharp-tongued outsider but as the leader of a righteous movement.
  — Dan Brooks, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• A few weeks into their two-month project, the researchers had seen snakes, possums, wombats, wallabies, blue-tongued lizards and the droppings of wild horses — but no koalas.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• Bradley Cooper plays the hero, Stan Carlisle, a malign drifter turned silver-tongued con man, with an eerie flair that’s matched by the exceptional supporting cast.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2021
• The death and funeral of their father brings three sisters to the home of their mother, Violet, an acid-tongued, pill-popping cancer patient.
  — Travis Bean, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
• The often acid-tongued Simon Cowell was equally gracious.
  — CBS News, 2 Nov. 2020
• The lawyer and media personality is a sharp-tongued provocateur, for sure.
  — Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2021
• That his reads also echoed his stage presence and his role as emcee merely stressed how his acid-tongued performances always hid a darker way of looking at the world.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 3 May 2021
• The Gay Bride: Carole Lombard stars as a sharp-tongued gold digger in this 1934 gangster screwball comedy.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• The experts were asked to evaluate the silver-tongued on the basis of social and political impact, and rhetorical artistry.
  — Patrick J. Sauer, Essence, 31 Mar. 2021
• Although his teen dream was to be a famous rapper, Faiyaz began slowing his flow to reveal a more silver-tongued, R&B Casanova lurking within.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024