1.   Another young model joined them, flashing her pointy pierced tongue, but Ms. Lowitt only beamed at her, like a mother indulging a pranksterish teen-ager.

2.   Another young model joined them, flashing her pointy pierced tongue, but Ms. Lowit only beamed at her, like a mother indulging a pranksterish teen-ager.

3.   Blame the pierced tongue and nose.

4.   Do you care if the person who serves your salad has a pierced tongue?

5.   Even people with pierced tongues are sort of a cliche.

6.   Its co-founder, Cliff Blatzley, has a pierced tongue and has been known to work on projects for days without sleep.

7.   Okay, so Duncan does have tattoos and a pierced tongue.

8.   Outside a restaurant called the Ghost Town Kitchen and No Pity Cafe, elderly residents chat easily with clean-cut transplanted New Englanders and Generation Xers with pierced tongues.

9.   Perception not always equaling reality, did we mention that Duncan has a pierced tongue to go along with a tattoo?

10.   She would be the swimmer with the pierced tongue.