Sentence examples for Formal tongue from inspiring English sources
He'd go on to move freely through so many worlds and circles, without ever not speaking in that singular accent — though it probably would have made life easier for him if he'd adopted a new way of talking (after all, as a journalist in the locker rooms, where slang and cursing were art-forms, my dad's stiff, formal tongue made him stick out like an egret among ducks).
Struggles over these issues continued for a number of centuries in various places, but the development of formal literary Hebrew a sacred tongue, to be used side by side with the Hebrew Scriptures in worship brought them to an end.
The researchers gave the molecule the acronym DC-SIGN to avoid using its tongue-twisting formal name: dendritic-cell-specific, icam-grabbing nonintegrin.
Improving language teaching is expected to be an early focus: many young and middle-aged Libyans speak nothing but Arabic because of abysmal standards and a formal ban on "imperialist" tongues in one of Gaddafi's zanier periods in the 1980s.
Hello - Witaj (vee-tie a little bit more formal but easier on your tongue than 'cześć').
The curators chose to exhibit Tongue Lounge in its formal austerity to emphasize its beautifully rudimentary shape and iconographic simplicity.
It's an easy tool to use and it allows us to see the severity of the tongue-tie in a more formal way.
It may be the difference between formal and familiar — or, in Reyes's native tongue, tú and usted.
For all the eight concepts that we have analyzed in the previous section, example sentences have been designed to help the interviewees to find the formal expression of that notion in their mother tongue.
Several of them here decided the way to proceed was to speak English without a Spanish accent but with a slightly formal hesitation, as if it wasn't their native tongue.
In his youth, in Edinburgh and at Stirling Castle, he'd been at the center of a loose-knit, homoerotic band of erudite court poets, dedicated to formal verse and the refinement of the Middle Scots dialect, his native tongue.
