Sentence examples for single tongue from inspiring English sources

Compared with people who speak only a single tongue, "bilinguals are much better at ignoring irrelevant words," Marian said.

The sisters' recent single, Tongue Behind My Teeth, is so clip-cloppy in rhythm they decided to make a video for it dressed as cowboys and riding horses.

(Mandarin Chinese is not an official language in enough countries and, in any case, there is a vibrant debate about whether Chinese is really a single tongue).

All cultures have distinct habits of language, but, because the speech of Thirlwell's people is designed to avoid any single tongue sticking out, they converse in odd-sounding endearments ("my fuzzy bear … my kook …petrushka"), strange slang ("pizzatweet") and broken English: "I no follow".

The results, which appear online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, suggest that the hummingbird has evolved to feed from multiple flower types and not rely on a single tongue mechanism that limits potential food sources.

Although it is impossible for now to make a single "tongue" that senses everything from beer to french fry grease, even crude electronic "taste testers" could be useful for taking a snapshot of chemicals in a solution rather than laboriously testing for substances individually.

Practice single tonguing, then using the 'rebound' attack only (ka's, ga's, etc).

As a part of today's public launch, the band Grouplove is offering free access to its sheet music, including the singles "Tongue Tied" and "Itchin' On A Photograph," and will choose three recording submissions from other Chromatik users to give personal feedback to.

How these in turn might be related to a single mother tongue remains to be seen.

The original, single Slavonic tongue had splintered into distinct languages and dialects.

It's been preceded by the excellent lead single "Silver Tongue", a fine psych-rock number.