Used in a Sentence

tong

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for tong.

Editorial note

My comment wasn't meant to be offensive or anything but english is not my mother tong.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of tong gathered in one view.

noun

A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.

noun

A Chinese secret society or gang.

noun

A surname.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for tong.

noun

A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.

noun

A Chinese secret society or gang.

noun

A surname.

noun

A place in the United Kingdom:

Example sentences

1

My comment wasn't meant to be offensive or anything but english is not my mother tong.

2

Peterburg in Russia, Waterloo in Canada, Zhejiang University and Shanghai Jiao Tong in China, and especially Warsaw University in Poland.

3

Or, you get called in down the line when it's all gone pete tong because the monolith 'prototype' has become a monster.

4

There's always the D forum, where we're always going hammer and tong over every detail of how things work.

5

Email zachary.tong@elasticsearch.com with a resume or portfolio, I'll send back some more details.

6

Ting Tong from Little Britain comes to mind.

7

I am sure that there are plenty of people that could use a good Q/A website where they can ask questions in their mother tong.

8

I did spend a year doing what Id describe as 'guerrilla white-board driven architecture' where we basically argued hammer and tong for three hours a day, putting ideas up and tearing them down.

9

Once I biked 2.5 hours from the northwest corner of Beijing to Tong Qian, a small town at the east outskirt of Beijing, to visit a friend.

10

I have no idea where I stand, I just hope things don't go completely pete tong, and I'm still in the same situation at 30 or something, when I have far more responsibilities and cannot afford to complete my education.

11

I still laugh about the interview I saw with Lee Hsien Loong in which the obsequious (although perhaps rather clever) interviewer asked him whether he had been upset when Goh Chok Tong had immediately succeeded Lee Kwan Yew (Hsien Loong's father) as PM.

Quote examples

1

OT: what does "it's all gone pete tong" mean?

2

Sharing my beloved ancient Chinese poem 山坡羊·潼关怀古 张养浩 峰峦如聚,波涛如怒,山河表里潼关路。望西都,意踌躇。 伤心秦汉经行处,宫阙万间都做了土。兴,百姓苦;亡,百姓苦。 Tune: “Sheep on the Hillside” —Tong Pass Zhang Yanghao Translated by Wayne Schlepp Peaks as if massed, Waves that look angry, Along the mountains and the river lies the road to Tong Pass.

Proper noun examples

1

Bad actors like -- William Tong, Anne E.

2

We thought it would be a cool thing to make it a bit better by adding Sets support, so I worked with Simon Tong—the author of Google Sets—to get it playing nice with autofill.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use tong in a sentence?

My comment wasn't meant to be offensive or anything but english is not my mother tong.

What does tong mean?

A Chinese lineage organization responsible for managing ancestral land.

What part of speech is tong?

tong is commonly used as noun.