Sentence examples for default tongue from inspiring English sources

The switch mirrors a sea change under way in China, where Mandarin, as the official language, is becoming the default tongue everywhere.

McCrum is bullish on Globish: the reign of English as the world's lingua franca or default tongue, "the worldwide dialect of the third millennium," the language in which China trades with Zambia, the language in which a Greek watching CNN phones a friend from the Middle East to get him off the London bus he's riding before it explodes.

Beef tongue".

Tongue blister?

The tongue.

To default?

Default Wimbledon?

Treasury default?

Tongue out.

Cat, tongue".

Nations default.