Example Sentences

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Tongues will be wagging and ears will be burning as “The Men Tell All” about Tayshia as well as their competition on “The Bachelorette.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020

Hitherto I have been129 undiscovered; but now," in comical dismay, "two long tongues will be wagging over what they have seen, and my secret is mine no longer.

From Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Clarke, Margaret Bruce

It will make a scandal, all the tongues in the country will be wagging about it, but it is better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

From Ivanoff by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich