Example sentences for: lick

How can you use “lick” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It feels as if you’re really part of the action as your carriage jolts around corners and flames lick close to your seat (all carefully choreographed for utmost safety).

  • This stigma is the natural flip side of the work ethic: If you "honor and support work," in Clinton's phrase, then you are at least slightly dishonored and ashamed to get a handout that goes to people who don't work a lick.

  • In golden hamsters, microinjections of arginine vasopressin (AVP) into the anterior hypothalamus trigger grooming and flank marking, a stereotyped scent marking behavior [ 1 2 ] . Within a minute after AVP microinjections, hamsters start to lick and comb sebaceous glands situated on their dorsolateral flanks.

  • It shouldn't make a lick of sense, let alone feel all of a piece, but The Matrix is actually one of the more lyrical sci-fi action thrillers ever made, in which space and time become love slaves to the directors' witty visual fancies.

  • The Indiana Pro Bono Commission hosted its annual celebration event, the Randall T. Shepard Dinner, at French Lick Springs Spa in October.


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