Example sentences for: licks

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

  • the poppies sway the wind looks around the cat licks herself

  • Sheryl Crow's guitar licks seem so familiar that I have often suspected they're simply mixed out of "Stuck in the Middle With You."

  • House Republicans, especially those on the judiciary committee, are set on eviscerating Clinton and won't settle for anything as gentle as censure (even if Clinton does agree to take his licks standing in the well of the House).

  • The Sunday LAT also featured an interview with Bernard Lewinsky, who had this to say in defense of his daughter: "She's a very smart, intelligent, beautiful girl who's going to go places, and unfortunately she's taking her licks.

  • The '70s megastar's first album of new songs in nine years is deemed melancholic and sluggish, "like it has been injected with a tranquilizer" (David Browne, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics lament that his guitar playing includes none of his signature virtuoso licks.


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