Example Sentences

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As Lillian’s fingers circumnavigated the beads, Ben’s mind wandered and the prayers became thoughtless, untongued words whose meaning was bled out of them by repetition.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

The thoughts of the stars are untongued, but they vibrate across the limitless ether, and are eloquent to the receptive mind.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson