Sentence examples for broken tongue from inspiring English sources

In his desperation to get published, Dunbar, who had never been south, added "dialect" poems to his repertory: verse written in a "broken tongue," as he described the minstrelized language.

She quotes a poem that Dunbar, who was friends with the Wright brothers and with Frederick Douglass, wrote in 1903 (three years before he died of tuberculosis, at the age of thirty-three), called "The Poet," But ah, the world, it turned to praise A jingle in a broken tongue.

Deeply ambivalent about his white readers' preference for what he called "a jingle in a broken tongue," Dunbar wrote a great deal of verse in standard diction and form, including a handful of lyrics, such as "We Wear the Mask," "Sympathy," and "The Haunted Oak," that testify candidly and movingly to his frustrated aspirations as a black poet in a white supremacist era.

Unless you know what you're doing, any broken tongue-and-groove joints may need the help of a professional.

Moreno learned of SASIC's "extended spring break" (tongue in cheek) at 5 p.m. on March 08th , 2017

Your Love Is Killing Me, meanwhile, features broken legs, cut tongues and burned skin.

"He can break me, with one hand," she falsettos during one chorus, whereas Your Love Is Killing Me features broken legs, cut tongues and burned skin.

His neck was badly broken and distorted, his tongue and neck were swollen, but there was little bleeding from his grazes – his heart must have stopped pumping almost immediately on impact.

But there's nothing intimidating about it — the tongue is broken down into perfect little cubes, tender blocks of meat so soft they could be crushed between your fingers, interspersed with sweet gushes of a baby tomato and the earthy balance of accompanying lentils.

The victim's mother, Jennifer Beard, told the news station her son's "face was swelled, his nose was broken, he bit through his tongue, his bottom teeth were chipped, his knees were scabbed everywhere" after the attack.

Occasionally, jerking during a seizure leads to injuries that range from a bite on their tongue to a broken bone.