tongue-tied in English
Neither could really speak, being tongue-tied and breathless.
I was born tongue-tied in the most literal sense: the tissue connecting my tongue to the floor of my mouth was short and thick, limiting lingual movement.
- lost for wordsspeechlessunable to get a word outstruck dumbdumbstruckmutedumbsilentmum
- incoherent
Use "tongue-tied" in a sentence
1. I'd be just another tongue-tied fan.
2. When I'm provoked I get tongue-tied.
3. He often sounds tongue-tied in interviews.
4. I got stage-fright and became tongue-tied.
5. He stood tongue-tied before the huge audience.
6. Outside the courtroom, Kevin is a tongue-tied lunkhead.
7. Whenever my boss is around, I feel tongue-tied.
8. In their presence I became self-conscious and tongue-tied.
9. They are the mute representatives of their tongue-tied, Befettered, heavy
10. She went to Druid's Bottom but she felt tongue-tied there.
11. Herbert: Every time I'm near a girl, I get tongue-tied.
12. She reeled off my 752 failings, whereas I was tongue-tied.
13. When adults spoke to her, she became tongue-tied and shy.
14. The boy was quieter than his sister, and gave tongue-tied answers.
15. I had tried since, alone and with others, and I'd been tongue-tied.
16. Tongue - tied by inexperience by excess of ardor, wooing unwittinglyawkwardly, Martin continued contact.
17. He was thinking of Mitch again and Maggie felt almost tongue-tied with frustration.
18. She became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome man sitting beside her.
19. The characterization is wildly inconsistent. Outside the courtroom, Kevin is a tongue-tied lunkhead.
20. But the grammarian is tongue-tied without his labels: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, pronoun.
21. Why don't you go meet the ladies before you get any more tongue-tied, lad.
22. 28 But the grammarian is tongue-tied without his labels: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, pronoun.
23. 29 But the grammarian is tongue-tied without his labels: noun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction, pronoun.
24. Nervousness affects people in different ways. While some people become tongue-tied, others cannot stop talking.
25. He submitted tongue-tied, and shivered with repugnance when he felt the warm wetness of her face.
26. Tongue-tied by inexperience and by excess of ardor, wooing unwittingly and awkwardly, Martin continued his approach by contact.
27. Both of them were easy victims: where she was slow and tongue-tied, he was short and physically weedy.
28. Tongue tied Synonyms and related words: Anaudic, aphasic, aphonic, breathless, brief, brusque, close, close-tongued, closemouthed, concise, curt, dumb, dumbfounded
29. Benny stumbled from time to time, and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them.
30. But as the race for the right word heats up and the Blurting gets boisterous, it's easy to get tongue-tied
31. It’s Fun To Go Bonkers! Do you get tongue-tied under pressure? You’ll soon find out playing this quick-thinking party board game
32. Ask one of them if there are such things as ‘right and wrong,’ and suddenly you are confronted with a confused, tongue-tied, nervous, and insecure individual. . . .
33. ‘Plain-speaking and tongue-tied sincerity was a rhetorical convention like any other, but Shakespeare clung to it, embodied in fool-poets, in Chuckleheaded peasants and witty children.’
34. Withering scorn of Britain's Bolshiest Baroness: In Part 2 of her brilliantly blunt life story, Tory peer Jean Trumpington gives her trademark two fingers to a glowering Mugabe, a tongue-tied
35. 26 In general, people in the towns saw people who lived on farms as more apt to be slow-witted,tongue-tied, uncivilized, than themselves and somewhat more docile in spite of their strength.
36. One group of researchers has found that some women chat happily and flirt, even if they have absolutely no interest in the man – which is bound to make the bashful and proud even more tongue-tied.
37. Anaudic - aphasic - aphonic - brusque - concise - laconic - silence 8 letter words old woman - quietude - taciturn - wordless 9 letter words secretive - stillness - voiceless - word-bound 10 letter words breathless - dumbstruck - quiescence - speechless - tongue-tied - tongueless 11 letter words dead of night - dumbfounded - tight-lipped
38. Definition of Bewitched : controlled or affected by or as if by a magic spell … as if he were not my great-grandfather at all but some mournful, Bewitched old huntsman from a storybook, tongue-tied by the bad fairy, unable to speak
39. ‘Acting in Consonance with the democratic convention, the President signed the Ordinance which was promulgated immediately on 24 August, 2002.’ ‘He is the answer to the prayers of those tongue-tied guys, the romantically handicapped, the timid ones whose words are not in Consonance with their feelings.’
40. ‘Acting in Consonance with the democratic convention, the President signed the Ordinance which was promulgated immediately on 24 August, 2002.’ ‘He is the answer to the prayers of those tongue-tied guys, the romantically handicapped, the timid ones whose words are not in Consonance with their feelings.’