tongue-tied

How To Use tongue-tied In A Sentence

• The Kennedy partisans are quite a tongue-tied bunch, all of them struggling gamely, if inarticulately, to somehow dismiss or disdain or circumlocute what is, apparently, the main focus of the film. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• The questions were evidently unexpected to the slow-witted spokesman, who instantly found himself tongue-tied.
• If they are not tongue-tied, they are either inarticulate or brash.
• felt tongue-tied with embarrassment
• Feeling as if I were on the witness stand, I grew tongue-tied and hesitant, and was unable to answer her questions satisfactorily.
• He was always tongue-tied and telegraphic; in fact, he stammered; but whether it was a verbal or a moral stammer Shevek had never decided. THE DISPOSSESSED
• When he met his idol, the young man was tongue-tied
• Yet the horse was no more an average slab-sided mustang than Rio was an average tongue-tied cowhand. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER
• But that piece of filming became part of family folklore, as my parents were convinced it had been edited to make its subject appear shy and tongue-tied, to fit their own preconceptions about country people.
• Another, suddenly struck by a hideous strabism, clucked, then becoming tongue-tied stood with her mouth open, the tongue turned back, the tip cleaving to the palate. Là-bas