on the tip of one's tongue in English

can't think of the answer on command, unable to respond immediately

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1. It's on the tip... .. of my tongue.

2. It's on the tip of my tongue.

3. The tip of her tongue was protruding slightly.

4. You always seem to have some acerbic remark on the tip of your tongue.

5. An Antonyms dictionary can provide the word that is on the tip of your tongue

6. His name's on the tip of my tongue, but I just can't think of it.

7. Or try more intense contact using the tip of your tongue.

8. He licked it, the tip, little mouth oozing moisture, feeling the smoothness on the tongue.

9. The tongue itself is Bunched up, and the tip of the tongue is literally retracted, or pulled in, towards the throat

10. The tip of the tongue is sensitive to salt and sweet stimuli and the back of the tongue is sensitive to bitter stimuli.

11. Sethe took a little spit from the tip of her tongue with her forefinger.

12. She kissed her forehead, tasting the saltiness of her skin with the tip of her tongue.

13. An Alveolar consonant is a consonant with the tongue close to the Alveolar ridge, which is the part just behind our teeth.Alveolar consonants that are pronounced with the tip of the tongue, like in English, are called apical consonants while those pronounced using the blade of the tongue which is the flat part of the tongue behind the tip, are called laminal consonants.

14. Breathe slowly and rhythmically, pressing the tip of your tongue against the back of your upper front teeth.

15. In my observation, the lingua-Alveolars emerge in babbling (6-10 months of age), not because the tongue-tip elevates, but because the jaw begins to move up-and-down while the tongue-tip protrudes slightly out the front of the mouth

16. The achievement of one's purpose depends largely on one's perseverance.

17. I had cultivated a mild sort of insanity, echolalia , I think it's called. All the tag ends of a night's proofing danced on the tip of my tongue.

18. The symptoms of a fissured tongue are Cracks on top surface of the tongue

19. This feeding method likely uses mucus on the bird's tongue to adhere to mucus in the mud, and the tip of its bill to sheer off gobs of the nutritious goo.

20. A Blot on (one's) escutcheon A stain or mark against one's reputation or that of one's family

21. There's paint on the tip of your nose.

22. Just before impact, two muscles in the tongue contract, forming the tip into a suction cup that adheres to the prey.

23. The shoelace caught on the tongue of his shoe.

24. [Latin Barbarismus, use of a foreign tongue or of one's own tongue amiss, barbarism, from Greek barbarismos, from barbarizein, to behave or speak like a barbarian, from barbaros, non-Greek, foreign (imitative of the sound of unintelligible speech).]

25. Palato-Alveolar definition, articulated with the blade or tip of the tongue approaching or touching the Alveolar ridge and the main body of the tongue near the hard palate; having a primary Alveolar articulation and a secondary palatal articulation