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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tong.

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Examples

  • Her hair was "tonged" and "three stiff white ostrich feathers ... stuck into ... her newly corrugated head."

    Coming Out 2009

  • Her hair was "tonged" and "three stiff white ostrich feathers ... stuck into ... her newly corrugated head."

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • She turned, tonged up a long flat fragment of steel with her two left hands and clanged the stock into the furnace.

    Destiny Narrowly Avoided 2010

  • Maggie, you silver-tonged peacemaker you - you left out the Solution We Must Not Even Consider.

    Clinton Campaign Manager To Obama Team: Help Get Michigan And Florida Counted 2009

  • If Americans truly believe that ALL life is sacred -- not just fetuses and the brain-dead -- we need to make certain that NOT ONE MORE of our finest young men are being forced to die at the whim of the silver-tonged avaricious old liars in the White House.

    Semper Fi: The funeral production line at Quantico Virginia 2006

  • A black, red-tonged snarler that has the most annoying meaw. it lasts and lasts like a wining Edith Bunker in "All in the Family".

    I hate cats 2005

  • When there were no finny fish to catch, they raked for quahogs; they dug for clams; they tonged for oysters; and they scraped mussels off rocks and mud banks.

    Death on a Vineyard Beach Philip R.Craig 1996

  • The sugar bowl was brought out and sugar tonged into the cups.

    Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry 1995

  • The sugar bowl was brought out and sugar tonged into the cups.

    The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

  • This afternoon, however, an unfamiliar ingot has been tonged onto the anvil of the gloom.

    Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994

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