Sentence examples for tongueless from inspiring English sources

The word "tongueless" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a person who cannot speak, perhaps due to a lack of a tongue or to the lack of language skills. For example, "The patient had to communicate using sign language, as they were tongueless."

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tongueless

adjective

Having no tongue

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Clawed frog (genus Xenopus), any member of 6 to 15 species of tongueless aquatic African frogs (family Pipidae) having small black claws on the inner three toes of the hind limbs.

Because they are tongueless, they rely on the forelimbs to guide food to their mouths, with additional aid from the rapid forward thrust of their powerful hind limbs.

"You're going to be the tongueless chef who's still a genius!" he told him.

Here Roy Scheele, a fine Nebraska poet, perfectly captures one of those passing memories. — Ted Kooser Produce Wagon By Roy Scheele The heat shimmer along our street one midsummer midafternoon, and wading up through it a horse's hooves, and each shoe raising a tongueless bell that tolled in the neighborhood, till the driver drew in the reins and the horse hung its head and stood.

In "Pace non trovo," a hymn to the pains of love with Verdian shifts from exultation to despair, he was simply superb, moving through the bleak images ("eyeless I gaze, and tongueless I cry out") with burning intensity and accompanied with flexibility and eloquence on the piano by Ivari Ilja.

(Do werewolves have tails, incidentally?) Said detective – necessarily, tenacious, and impeccably played by Douglas Hodge – has a witness to the massacre and though said witness is unhelpfully tongueless and probably mad, you get the sense that this won't deter dogged Douglas.

You'd call it foot in mouth, except that what the Emperor asks his daughter to hoover up with her tongueless lips is his severed hand.

For it was not the sanitised tongueless lip cinch of a black-and-white classic, or the neat snog of PG fodder.

"I spent a lot of time with the actress who played Lavinia and I became obsessed with that idea of the tongueless, handless woman who's been robbed of the ability to communicate.

Rock stars have a tendency to depict their drug problems in hysterically grandiose terms – "what tongueless ghost of sin crept through my curtains?" as Noel Gallagher put it – but Healy is more mundane and realistic: "You look shit and you smell a bit".

It's surely not a coincidence that audience members happened to pass out during the Globe's recent production of Titus Andronicus when the blood leaked from Lavinia's tongueless mouth.

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