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Example sentences for: licking

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I hope this isn't a sign that SLATE will follow the lead of many of its print counterparts by licking every crumb from New York's cultural plate while completely ignoring major events that occur elsewhere.
As played by Matt Damon, this Ripley's chief talent is for licking his lips and looking clammily out of place.
I'll try not to eviscerate the laughably dour eXistenZ , a virtual-reality guessing game of a thriller in which David Cronenberg, evidently licking his wounds over the calamitous receptions of Crash (1996), M. Butterfly (1993), and Naked Lunch (1991), goes back to the terrain he once profitably mined in Scanners (1981) and Videodrome (1983).
When Wade's girlfriend Margie (Sissy Spacek) confronts him about a crude remark, he fixes her with a leer while licking salt off the back of his hand--a gesture more wolfishly obscene than anything he could say.
In canine acral lick dermatitis, the excessive licking of the paws and flanks was significantly reduced by fluoxetine and clomipramine two and three weeks into treatment, respectively [ 25 ] . However, the scale of the reduction was more pronounced over a five-week period of treatment [ 25 ] . Perhaps flank gland grooming would have been significantly altered in these studies if drug treatment had been extended for several more weeks.