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Example sentences for "lick"

Lexicographically close words:
licie; licien; licit; licite; licitum; licke; licked; licker; licking; lickings
  1. And if he's too hefty fur me to lick him fair," I says, "and I get a good chancet I will hit him with a piece of railroad iron fur you.

  2. The smoke was rolling high, too, and the sparks flying and other things in danger of ketching, and after while a lick of smoke come drifting up my way.

  3. But say, can't we jest LICK the kid and turn him loose?

  4. If I ever happen to run acrost this here David Armstrong, and he is anywheres near my size, I'll lick him fur you.

  5. This time he hits her a lick that lays her out and likes to kill her, and it gets him scared.

  6. You never seen the day you could do it," says Tom Alexander, meaning the day he could lick him.

  7. Fur I was thinking that if Hank tries to lick me fur it I'll fight him back this time, which I hadn't never fit him back much yet fur fear he'd pick up something iron around the shop and jest natcherally lay me cold with it.

  8. If it had been a real one, instead of painted-up wood, I would of killed Looey, the lick I give him.

  9. Hank's wife, Elmira, she used to lick him jest about as often as he licked her, and boss him jest as much.

  10. And the third lick I give her she broke loose and clattered down right onto a centre table and spilled over some photographs and a vase full of flowers, and bounced off onto the floor.

  11. He had made up his mind he was going to die, and he was so mad because he couldn't get in one good lick first that he was nigh crazy.

  12. If you can't lick them, join them," Trask said.

  13. We have enough ships to lick them on Tanith, we have enough to lick them on their own planet.

  14. A man with a club can lick a man with his fists.

  15. If you can't lick them, lick their boots," the Count of Ravary put in.

  16. The puppy wriggled and tried to lick the girl's face.

  17. And two ships with nuclear weapons can lick a whole planet without them.

  18. But if he can't lick them, he won't join them.

  19. A man with a gun can lick half a dozen with clubs.

  20. He learns that still water is silent, and that running water makes a sound, and may lick his legs as with wet and cool tongues—and that when the wind rises the trees wail like young fox cubs.

  21. Then he would lick his jaws a few times and sleep on, while the moonlit square moved across the floor like a living thing.

  22. For the cow began to lick him, and her tongue was soft, so caressingly soft.

  23. He could not reach it with his tongue, and could only lick the hole where it had crawled under the skin.

  24. I'd lick little Michael if I seed him show any signs o' that feeling.

  25. Somebody's got to lick Wash Gibbs some day, or there just naturally won't be no decent livin' in the neighborhood ever.

  26. Mike gits as drunk as a biled owl & allows that he can lick a yard full of the Veneshun fancy before breakfast, without sweatin a hair.

  27. Shooting out on the other side, he darted off like an eel through the water grass, and hurried away up stream to a certain hollow log he knew, where he might lick his bites and meditate undisturbed.

  28. She was just about wide enough awake to tell him how glad she was to see him and have him with her, and to lick him tenderly for a while, and to get him nursing comfortably.

  29. If Johnny couldn't do better than that, I'd lick him.

  30. Seth can lick you out of your boots, chile," she said with naive abstraction.

  31. Roarin' Russell, champeen wrastler, allows he can lick any man in camp.

  32. It's either he can lick me, man to man, or I lick him.

  33. You said you c'ud lick any one in the camp one-handed, guns barred.

  34. They feel that we will be able to lick the Boche all right, and they are with us in the struggle.

  35. I always agree with his arguments, feeling it to be safer; but I had to put in just a mild protest, when he observed that America could equip an army in six weeks, that would lick any Continental army.

  36. Ah, that's the vital question," said Shirley, with a more vigorous lick at his lips.

  37. He squirms in, unnoticed, through a window, and has just time to give himself a hurried lick down before he hears the cook's step on the stairs.

  38. She would hold it down with one paw, and lick it by the half-hour together, trying to make it set properly.

  39. Similarly we saw that elsewhere, when a reaper is wounded at reaping, a cat, as the representative of the corn-spirit, is made to lick the wound.

  40. If a reaper is wounded at his work, they make the cat lick the wound.

  41. At a certain lick in northern Montana, shots at sheep may be had almost any day by the man who is willing to watch for them.

  42. I have seen mule deer and sheep nibbling the soil in company, and have seen white goats visit a lick frequented also by sheep.

  43. In the summer of 1903 a bunch of nine especially good rams visited a certain lick each day.

  44. Did you ever see a post office clerk lick a stamp?

  45. College kids and engaged girls and new parents and especially writers and artists and poets--they'd all lick lots of stamps.

  46. At those times Hero would lick Stubby's face and whimper a little love whimper and such were the workings of Stubby's heart and mind that that made him of quite as much account as if he really had chased the chickens.

  47. At first Stubby's father said he had a good mind to lick him.

  48. Rejoiced at his success, the dog kept dodging about her, catching a lick here and a lick there, wherever he saw a spot of bare within his reach.

  49. Diligently he set himself to lick her face and hands.

  50. Down with her, Lord, to lick the dust, Ere yonder setting sun; 80 Serve her as she hath served the just!


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    addle; amaze; approach; assay; attempt; baffle; bamboozle; bang; bash; bat; beat; beating; belt; best; bid; bite; blast; blow; boggle; breath; brush; buffalo; cadenza; career; caress; cast; chop; clip; clobber; clout; clump; confound; conk; conquer; contact; crack; cream; curry; cut; dash; daze; defeat; destroy; dig; dint; down; drub; drudgery; drumming; dust; effort; employment; endeavor; essay; experiment; fag; fatigue; feel; feeling; fix; flick; fling; floor; flourish; frustrate; fuddle; fusillade; gait; gambit; get; glance; graze; grind; handiwork; hide; hint; hit; hurdle; idea; impromptu; improvisation; industry; interpolation; intimation; kiss; knock; labor; lap; larrup; lather; leather; lick; look; master; maze; moil; mouth; move; muddle; mystify; offer; outclass; outdo; outrun; outshine; overcome; overrun; overwhelm; pace; paddle; pelt; perplex; plunk; poke; pound; progress; punch; puzzle; rap; rate; rout; rub; ruin; scintilla; settle; shade; shadow; shellac; shot; sip; skin; skunk; slam; slavery; slug; smack; smash; smattering; smear; smell; smother; sock; soupcon; spark; spice; sprinkling; stab; step; stick; stride; stroke; stump; suggestion; sup; surmount; suspicion; swat; sweat; swing; swipe; tan; tap; task; taste; tattoo; thought; thrash; throw; thump; thwack; tincture; tinge; toil; tongue; touch; trace; travail; travel; tread; treadmill; trial; trim; triumph; trounce; try; undertaking; undo; vamp; wallop; welt; whack; whale; whip; whisper; whop; win; wipe; work; worst; trial; trim; triumph; trounce; try; undertaking; undo; vamp; wallop; welt; whack; whale; whip; whisper; whop; win; wipe; work