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take up with the tongue
The cat lapped up the milk
the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast
How To Use lap up In A Sentence
- Their audience will lap up whatever they throw at them.
- Three capybaras have been born at the popular animal park and the babies are now delighting visitors as they lap up the autumn sunshine.
- The cat began to lap up the milk.
- Mr. Syme's original operation was briefly as follows: -- With an ordinary amputating-knife make a lunated incision (Plate I.fig. 19) from one condyle to the other, across the front of the joint, on a level with the middle of the patella, divide the tissues down to the bones, and then draw the flap upwards, then cut the quadriceps extensor immediately above the patella. A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
- You are sure to lap up the special doting treatment emanating from your mate.
- Ice cream is one food that most kids lap up without hesitation.
- A hard slap upside my head was her solution for everything.
- It is only to the good of the one with the knife, and those who by weight of numbers but not reason dictate what is the good of allthose cheering him on so they might lap up any drop of blood their masters miss. Men Don't Leave Me
- Crash goes his belly and his arms flap up like a corkscrew lever.
- He has the look to suit glamorous big European nights under the floodlights and the reputation and aura of a man made to lap up the spotlight. The Sun