adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He often sounds tongue-tied in interviews.
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Nervousness affects people in different ways. While some people become tongue-tied , others cannot stop talking.
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She became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome man sitting beside her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Benny stumbled from time to time, and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them.
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Both of them were easy victims: where she was slow and tongue-tied , he was short and physically weedy.
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I had tried since, alone and with others, and I'd been tongue-tied .
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Outside the courtroom, Kevin is a tongue-tied lunkhead.
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She reeled off my 752 failings, whereas I was tongue-tied .
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She went to Druid's Bottom but she felt tongue-tied there.
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The boy was quieter than his sister, and gave tongue-tied answers.
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Whatever he might fling at her this time, she would not sit bowed and tongue-tied .