Sentence examples for are on the tip of from inspiring English sources

His one-liners resonate, his tag team conversations with my mother are on the tip of my tongue as I talk to my wife, my son and my daughters.

LA-2 recognizes the three surface-exposed loops of the C-terminal domain of OspA that are on the tip of the elongated molecule most distant from the lipid-modified N terminus.

If elemental fragments with small tip radii below 2 nm are formed, capillary pressure forces the atoms which are on the tip of the fragments to dissolve.

Answers that are on the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT)—not immediately recallable but nevertheless evoking a feeling of imminent recall seem, intuitively, to be materials that have this characteristic of being almost, but not quite, fully known.

Their names might be on the tip of one's tongue, only to re-emerge, uselessly, in the middle of the night.

It's political correctness gone mad!" But one gets the impression it was on the tip of her tongue.

Reaching for one's "waist-band" seems to be on the tip of everyone's tongue who "stands their ground".

I am one of those baby boomers who are making this the "It's on the Tip of My Tongue Decade".

The lyrics were on the tip of her tongue.

"I think we're on the tip of the iceberg.

Bernard... Bernard... it's on the tip of my tongue.