1.   A few coppers would be enough to loosen her tongue.

2.   The wine had certainly loosened her tongue.

3.   Zeal for a cause dissolved his timidity and loosened his tongue.

4.   Being out of the limelight often loosens the tongues of the once-powerful, but this is David Dinkins.

5.   But he struggled with alcohol and unemployment, and when whiskey loosened his tongue, he became a big talker.

6.   If doors were not opened, at least tongues were loosened.

7.   Sometimes, however, a glass or two of wine can loosen the tongue.

8.   And while laws ostensibly bar doctors from disclosing the sex of an unborn child, bribes can loosen their tongues.

9.   Breakfast -- pre-cooked stew, hot tea, the first cigarette of the day -- loosens tongues a little.

10.   But the sting of what they say is betrayal by the US government has loosened their tongues.