How To Use Lapping In A Sentence

Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces? See, it's not all about the election today.
Some teachers also punish students by flogging them with whips made of rubber (from strips of old car tires), with heavier canes, or simply by slapping, kicking, or pinching them.
With check-in times now prolonged because of security issues, traders are lapping up even more business as they tempt us with their trinkets and gewgaws.
In the darkened room behind this diorama, a wall-sized video projection showed a seascape of lapping waves.
The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.

Aaewin asked without thinking, clapping her hands over her mouth after the words escaped.
Flying foxes have a long bristly tongue that's great for lapping up juicy fruit, and for licking and grooming themselves and their friends!
It was a strange spectacle to see the two former enemies shaking hands and slapping each other on the back.
The cliffs closed in as the river swept round a bend, its waves slapping against vertical rocks.
Separate from the slapping lesbians, a battle began to rage between the lesbians who were pagans versus the lesbians who were Christians, and then the lesbians who wanted to have “baster babies” factioned off, too. Roseanne Archy
A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take.
There was a loud clapping from the boys who were perched on the rail fence, but some of the girls were crying. Rainbow Valley
They got comfortable on the rocks, with the waves roaring in, lapping at their feet, they stroked their bellies and chattered on about the sea, about stealing a small fishing boat when they should have been in school. September 17 , 2004
A braai is the South African version of a barbecue - and I figured I could handle slapping meat on the grill. Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity's affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss -- a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity's mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world's thirstiest gerbil. Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-3-2010
Fortunately, she was lapping the soup up with great neatness and delicacy, which was sort of a relief: Jinx had been afraid she was going to slop it all over the table.
Working your way across the ceiling widthwise rather than lengthwise, begin painting a series of overlapping W's until the ceiling is mostly covered.
That night, we anchored in Geneviz Limani - the Bay of the Genoese - and dined on the poop deck as the moon rose and the sound of the lapping tide echoed against the towering cliffs.
The two alternatives, presented as dichotomous above, may be viewed as partly overlapping, and not mutually exclusive.
The clinker-built construction of overlapping planks secured by clench nails conferred great strength with flexibility.
The map was a cartographer's bird's-eye view, but the icy mountains unfolded white and hazy and shadowed, outlines blurred and overlapping. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
She swallowed a humph, then nearly groaned aloud when, clapping her hands, Lady Hightham urged them to gather around for some music. ON A WICKED DAWN
As she made her slow journey across the room, she heard the faint sound of bare flesh slapping against the stone tile.
It seems pointlessly dense with renegade and overlapping wood slats, all cracked and sullied.
Maura let out a nervous guffaw before clapping her hand over her mouth again, keeping her giggles silent.
Aaron and Adam had begun slapping each other on the cheek with one hand while the other punched the other one in the arm.
The tide was lapping the harbour wall.
As the night wore on, I got to the point where I was repeatedly slapping the bartop with my palm, shouting at the bartender, Take credit for what you do! The Credit is All Mine
For a while, an hour and a half, though she did not know it, until the men came in from the fields trailing dust and slapping their stomachs, Rupban clutched Cheepy-cheepy's limp and bony neck and said only "Coming, coming" to all inquiries about the bird. Excerpt: Brick Lane by Monica Ali
While others were scoffing at the notion of ebonics, I was lapping up inner city slang: that beautiful, musical, profane prose. Slashdot: Book Reviews
African elephant having enormous flapping ears and ivory tusks.
Once resurfacing from the water, hair in his eyes, he could see Jo laughing, not so discreetly slapping her thigh in mirth.
In the most telling moment the whole lot balance on elbows and heads, each clapping his feet together like trained seals. Times, Sunday Times
I don't mean to say that Americans are a nation of superficial, backslapping enjoyers and happy-makers, as opposed to our suffering Slavic souls.
Rather than moving forward while flapping their wings up and down like a bird, flies hover while beating their wings back and forth.
One of the reasons why this is more likely to happen when lapping flip chips is the small surface area.
Caught under by the breeze, the awnings of the fore-deck bellied upwards and collapsed slowly, and above their heavy flapping the gray stuff of Captain Whalley's roomy coat fluttered incessantly around his arms and trunk.
Remember that the next time you find yourself enjoying compliments so much they take on the sound of a flapping cape. Christianity Today
The party won the support of the right-wing opposition and more than 100 000 people, but failed in getting the support of its two coalition partners, who claimed that the idea contradicted the constitution and would have resulted in having two National Assemblies overlapping each other - the old one with a few weeks left of its term and the new one. SofiaEcho RSS feed
He even had one or two on the other side of the House clapping him at the end of his presentation.
I reckon that gobby bitch who got slapped got all that she deserved (and look at her lapping up the publicity, even that leech Clifford is on it now). Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Though not slapstick or of the knee-slapping variety, Hamer is droll and often wickedly subtle in his deadly strain of humour.
The throng surrounding them shouted affirming hallelujahs and amens, flapping and singing, rattling their tambourines and bleating their horns.
After I'd almost recovered, he dragged me out of bed and began slapping me.
And by this, I mean the many overlapping discoveries of unvoiced knowledge, feelings and imagination that we stumble upon via images.
The end of one band overlapping the end of another, the joints held together by a simple dot of solder, not welding at all. OFF THE CHART
I was surrounded by backslapping, laughing patrons.
He made a noise of what I took to be assent, muffled as it was by the furious flapping of his frilly pinny over the shrieking smoke alarm.
Competitors, collaborators, those in complimentary fields with an overlapping client base, and folks who are totally outside your immediate world. Women Grow Business » 2009 » November
Their three-guitar lineup produced a wall of overlapping sound, immersing the audience in impassioned songs mostly about love, and occasionally hate.
Line a 2-litre pudding basin with clingfilm and cover its base and sides with overlapping brioche slices. Times, Sunday Times
WE EMERGE into the prison laundry past a guard, WIDENING for a final view of the line. The giant steel " mangler " is slapping down in brutal rhythm. The sound is deafening.
But it's not all schmaltzy backslapping in the band. The Sun
I looked up through the smoke of my cigarette and my eye lodged for a moment upon the burning coals, and that old fancy of the crimson flag flapping from the castle tower came into my mind, and I thought of the cavalcade of red knights riding up the side of the black rock. Monday or Tuesday
This isn't like a Sunday redtop slapping "Exclusive" on every tatty tale in town. Huffington Post not so picture perfect
He rudely kicks the women out, slapping Stella on her thigh.
Each time, stretch the dough towards you to form an arc, slapping it back on itself. Times, Sunday Times
The Democrats will still be expected to pay heed to national unity by clapping politely. Times, Sunday Times
The fear was put into perspective by one crew member who believed when he heard the flapping of the genoa caused by the halyard coming away that there was a helicopter overhead to rescue us.
Finally, certain manufacturing capabilities are crucial for effective overlapping.
Underneath me, a small boy keeps jumping up and slapping a scale model of China that's been fastened to the wall.
And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet. Through Russia
We were told to keep our seats because the show wasn't over until ABBA sang and unbidden, the audience started clapping along happily, as a virtual mini-ABBA concert was performed at the end.
These scenes of strain were contrasted all too neatly with a scene of release for Don, who spent his Thanksgiving paying good money to have a hooker come over and go through what we saw was a regular ritual: The pross on top, slapping Don. EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines
The flag was flapping about in the wind.
The dumb birds swarmed me, flapping their wings like crazy, making clucking sounds, and pecking at my legs.
Now the lake was placid in the heat of the afternoon, the tiny wavelets lapping the shore like a hurried metronome.
The name diatom comes from a Greek word diatomos that means cut in half, because the shells of diatoms have two overlapping, symmetrical halves. Diatomite
I agree with you that it's not right to call your son names, and that slapping him is potentially dangerous.
Boats had low aspect mains, small foretriangles, fractional rigs and no lapping foresails.
We waded across to Witch Island, the warm waves gently lapping our legs.
Line a 2-litre pudding basin with clingfilm and cover its base and sides with overlapping brioche slices. Times, Sunday Times
Bitch-slapping the new Intel Chair is something I put in the fuckup category. Not Enjoyin It | ATTACKERMAN
Moscow these days is seeing a resurgence of overlapping ideologies. Times, Sunday Times
Max's ears drooped a bit and he looked down at the waves lapping at their toes.
He added: 'If the stretcher bar was missing the rail would have been left flapping about. The Sun
We'll have to wait and see what the reasons are but there are essentially two overlapping lines of attack.
Georgina opened her fan and started flapping it angrily in front of herself.
Is the wind in their sails or are their sails flapping? Times, Sunday Times
The sequence view got some fixes - some shortcuts where overlapping, the label column now shows cursor and selection and finally the cursor is clamped to now leave the editable area. Planet GNOME
A genuine initiative, or just another excuse for backslapping and all-star music line-ups?
By the time the first fight broke out I was gripped - feathers were puffed up to ensure maximum hard-man appearance and then a very undignified battle ensued, involving lots of running jumps and flapping and pecking.
Everyone was a little tense, slapping each other on the back and making double entendre remarks that were rewarded with great guffaws. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
The audience are strangely subdued, clapping politely after each song.
He took a series of pictures, the first one showing the Manchester man, dressed in shorts, striped T-shirt and flip-flops, casually walking away from the beach, where water is already lapping round the deserted sunloungers.
A frequent metaphor for one aspect of chaos theory is called the Butterfly Effect - butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazon affect the weather in Chicago.
Old Schwerin, the Chief Minister, still with his nightcap on and a robe-de-chambre flapping round his ankles, was hobbling along towards me, with a little knot of attendants fussing in his wake. Royal Flash
He's a natural salesman, whose secret weapon is the sheer confidence and optimism that he exudes rather than backslapping bonhomie.
The overlapping view makes it difficult to sort out the various spars, but it appears that the foremast has only lower and topmasts, while topgallants are carried on the main and mizen.
Marching stiffly across the room he performed a perfect about-turn before slapping his tiny sandalled foot on the clay floor and saluting.
Sepals very large, incurved, overlapping each other, having the appearance of being semi-double, and being of good substance. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
The flowers are 2 in. long, bell-shaped; the petals shining lemon-yellow, with a tinge of brown on the outside, whilst the sepals are like a number of fish-scales, overlapping each other down the outside of the campanulate tube. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation
A butterfly was flapping around the wheelbarrow looking for a fragrance to match the colour of that great metallic flower.
The first settlers from Europe, having braved the wild Atlantic for a strange and tavern-bare land, can't be faulted for slapping beer together from whatever scraps they could find. Gourd Lovin'
Then he batted it to and fro, chasing it up one aisle and down another and slapping it silly.
The difficulty comes when ephemeral pieces and scripts for ancient programmes are dusted down and drawn together, unrevised and overlapping. The Times Literary Supplement
The lack of definition to his roaming role meant that he was often overlapping with colleagues. Times, Sunday Times
There is no cheery speech, no overlapping dialogue, no badinage, no heartiness - real or false - almost no voice raised in anger or twisted in sarcasm.
But I tell the doctor that as his members are clapping him, they are busy planning his downfall.
Evil Laura won't slow down, and near the end of the race I am intent on lapping Lauren.
Sunburned, butt-slapping white men came out from the lake for salty corn chips and margaritas and to razz the fatso wives who were mostly reading fashion magazines. Jesus-Man and the Bee Sting
The calming sound of sea waves lapping the boardwalk, they swear, is the ultimate antidote to urban stress.
He sat within a circular grove of slender trees, whose interlapping branches cast The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
Oh, buffalo!" she exclaimed, clapping her hands, while Little An stared in horror and absolutely beat his forehead with his fists, and the hapless victim struggled helplessly, distracted and outraged - for I have my dignity, dammit, and I bar being unbreeched and assailed by opium-sodden houris, however be-witching, without even a by-your-leave. Flashman And The Dragon
It's call the ExoFly, and Ray described it as a "dragonfly-on-steroids … a nimble flapping aerobot. Universe Today
Most work on unsteady flow during locomotion in fluids has focused on flapping propulsors, and verifications of the theory have necessarily focused on rigid robotic limbs under carefully controlled conditions.
And it's why lounging on soft sand by a lapping tropical lagoon feels so natural. Times, Sunday Times
A frequent metaphor for one aspect of chaos theory is called the Butterfly Effect - butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazon affect the weather in Chicago.
For a brief few seconds he led the Grand National as Clan Royal veered off a straight line, the whipless Cooper slapping his horse as he tried to cajole him back onto a straight line.
I can hear the click click of bicycle chains and the gentle purr of cars rolling past behind me, mimicking the lapping sound of the waves.
The orchestra is split in two, with a third block of players in between, providing counterpoint and overlapping musical colour. Times, Sunday Times
Judging from the fervent clapping, only diehard fans bought tickets. Times, Sunday Times
If you have decided to store your boat ashore during hurricane season, the only safe way to do it is to remove the rig, dig a hole, and set the boat in the hole resting on overlapping tyres.
Its wings were splayed as if for flight, but they were not flapping.
Moments later, the officer was again slapping a pair of handcuffs on the 23-year-old man, who had apparently just slipped free from bracelets another officer had snapped around his wrists 16 hours earlier.
We were the ones slapping sun cream on our heads all the time. Times, Sunday Times
Her figure curves gracefully from head to toe as she stands there, the only one left clapping.
This wouldn't be much of a play, so Donaghy tells it in stammers and dithers, fragmented verbiage and non sequiturs, inchoate bits and overlapping dialogue, aposiopesis and time lags (a question is answered three or four lines later).
He did not kno., v that he had made a joke until he saw Mel slapping his thigh and laughing.
The waves were lapping on the side of the boat.
The great ugly sharky fish was hooked forward by Josh and placed in a great basket, where it lay writhing its eely tail, and flapping its wing-like fins as the boat slowly progressed, and bait after bait was replaced, many being untouched, the thornback, skate, or ray being the only fish taken. Menhardoc
The plump cook chided me, slapping my small hand away when it reached for one more chocolate chip cookie.
He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead.
The audience began clapping and cheering.
Occasionally there is too much glad-handing and backslapping, but overall it's a compelling complement to the film.
Others join in and the whole room burst into a riot of clapping, yells, and screaming.
I could hear the water lapping on the sides of my punt.
He also assaulted a woman by slapping her when she refused to give him money.
The skylights billow like sheets flapping in the wind and dancing curtains shine green and faintly red.
Emery, known for steadiness, emerged, the lapels on his blue blazer flapping as he waved people out.
Everyone was a little tense, slapping each other on the back and making double entendre remarks that were rewarded with great guffaws. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
An ornithopter is an aircraft that gets its forward propulsion from the flapping of wings (the ORNITH – in ornithopter comes from the ltain for “bird” – putting “ornith” on a prefix makes it “bird-like”) an ornithopter is a heavier-than-air aircraft that is propelled by the flapping of wings. KAMN Show #11: Dune : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.
All of these people were ringing cowbells, clapping, and cheering.
No one will begrudge you for slapping those greasies into a chip butty for optimal carbs.
These were clinker-built - that is, with timbers overlapping and not laid flush - with flat bottom, straight stem and stern posts, a stern rudder and a single sail.
It could have been someone clapping, a single clap to shoo away a bird. SNOWLINE
My older brothers would clunk along the deck above, hauling on lines, and shouting to each other in the wind as they struggled to douse the flapping sails.
Although drama and news remained distinct genres with overlapping but divergent modes of staging, the nature of the newspaper medium at that particular moment in journalistic history brought to the fore powerful analogies between the two, with respect to both the physical presentation of events and the way we can experience time as imbued with tension and meaning. Introduction
Slapping was an idea that caught on real good with the other Reds, cause they started in slapping Measure, too, both of the boys, again and again, till they were half-dazed and their cheeks were bleeding inside and out. He Don't Know Him
Much of it has a suspended quality, of time stretched out, elongated, with overlapping waves of strummings that variously suggest guitars, harps, bells, and dulcimers constellating about a central drone.
vehement clapping
Like conventional bricks, adobes are laid in a running bond - an overlapping pattern - then mortared in place with adobe mud.
Particularly overlapping were the chapters on the pulpit and on congregations within a congregation.
She gestured to the pillows next to her, for him to sit, sitting herself down and clapping her hands once, for her serving women to bring goblets, and drink.
Amid a spray of spilt drinks and nibbles, much cheering, dancing and backslapping, the unruly crowd vented their delirium in the manner of Indian cricket spectators, setting alight their match programs and letting off fireworks.
I followed its sequence, page by page, and wrote three distinct but overlapping accounts for each layout.
She was wrestling or slapping a young man and he was saying, ‘Listen, lady, I'm hurt, too.’
There are times when someone decides that an album deserves plaudits, laurel wreaths and all round backslapping because it's an auspicious debut recorded without the help of some guy with a ponytail in a big office.
If they want a backslapping ceremony let them pay for it. The Sun
‘Cause sometimes the habits of a decade and more well up, lapping gently around my brainpan.
I wasn't enjoying it in the weeks leading up to going on a plane last year, but now that the prospect of getting in a thin metal tube and hurtling through the sky is slim, I'm lapping it up.
We must even acknowledge that the little Queen-bee fell into a few excesses, such as jumping over ditches where they were the broadest, and clapping her hands and shouting to frighten away phlegmatical crows. The Home
A solid figure steps out nobly, his robe flapping around him in the wind like a cape.
First it was boys who took to the ramp and in casuals and some in sports gear, they had the audience cheering and clapping.
Based on Diamond overlapping model, this paper presents a dynamic economic model.
At that point, Timmy got up and started clapping in a slow rhythmic cadence.
The next day we headed to the gay Beach Number 7, which was marked like a territorial conquest with a huge rainbow flag flapping in the breeze.
Her lower-topsails hung in limp emptiness from the yards, heavy with rain and flapping soggily when she rolled. CHAPTER XXVIII
Plainclothes police officers have detained nearly 2,000 people since the so-called clapping protests began in June, in many cases because they were seen clapping or standing near people who were. NYT > Home Page
In the London ‘Rubaiyat’, the ornamentation characterised by scroll-like involutions of ‘A Book of Verse’ is largely replaced by overlapping elliptical and oval shapes formed from the intersections of vine branches.
He walked back and entered the building, slapping his press card down on the reception counter. COVER STORY
I have to admit that I had butterflies the size of bulldozers flapping around in my tum as I walked him round the corner to nursery school.
The edge of the ice had started to melt, creating a narrow stream where some of the birds were happily preening, flapping showers of droplets into the air.
His mouth was smeared with blood and his canine teeth were overlapping his lips.
Call me bwana," he laughed, boat shoes slapping the concrete path. White People Problems (part 1)
A genuine initiative, or just another excuse for backslapping and all-star music line-ups?
Mother comes, it hisses before flapping batlike wings and flying off. Slayed
Adele looks him over like a cat lapping up cream, obviously finding little fault with his appearance.
I look up and see fat feathery fledglings flapping furiously, flying fairly fast (look at me, I'm alliterating)!
Soon, those handshakes turned into righteous hugs and hand pounds, hi-fives and playful back-slapping every time our paths connected. One Season
A pigeon had mistakenly fluttered inside the pub and was flapping in some women's faces.
You'll find yourself laughing out loud, clapping for the heroine, and feeling reluctant, amused commiseration for the hero.
To inspect a lobster's limbs, we lay it on its back (as Aristotle did), and see the legs overlapping, each hinder one above the one before; the hindmost is the first we see, and the one we must first lift up to inspect the others. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
The orchestra is split in two, with a third block of players in between, providing counterpoint and overlapping musical colour. Times, Sunday Times
The former was dressed in "a parti-colored dress, including a cowl, which ended in a cock's-head, and was winged with a couple of long ears; he, moreover, carried in his hand a stick called his bauble, terminating either in an inflated bladder or some other ludicrous object, to be employed in slapping inadvertent neighbors. Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
As the laps unwound, the pack split into two groups and the leaders were lapping slower competitors by the ninth lap.
Her flowing red hair was streaming out the window, the black tips flapping in the wind.
No amount of internal high-fiving or back-slapping will change that, lads.
His shirt-tails flapping in the breeze, he faced the green at an angle of forty-five degrees and sliced every shot.
Elinor listened, seated in a rocking-chair, restlessly clapping her protended ankles together. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
We stood there silently for a few minutes, only the sound of the waves gently slapping against the boat could be heard.
As we reached the middle of the sound opposite Armadale, there fell a dead calm; and the Betsey, more actively idle than the ship manned by the Ancient Mariner, dropped sternwards along the tide, to the dull music of the flapping sail. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
Finally I broke down and grinned, clapping him on the shoulder.
This character would offer solutions to a problem, no one would respond, then a man would come up, verbatim, with the same idea which would be met with universal backslapping and congratulations.
These two paintings, linked by an overlapping chronology, similar measurements, and compositional analogies, may in fact have been intended as pendants.
Hello, I've tried to understand what you're doing by slapping some example activities and technologies on a copy of your diagram.
From our offices, we could hear the call of seagulls and the sound of halyards slapping against the masts of sailboats docked alongside the wharf, one of which belonged to Bernie and was available for our use.
A vintage sports car passed me and disappeared into the distance, the headscarf of the lady passenger flapping in the wind.
Doom metal is usually an analogue affair, full of throbbing tube amps and strings detuned so low they're practically flapping.
The waves are lapping gently against the small boat.
His philosophy of pragmatic capitalism and backslapping politics were viciously attacked by members of the Northern black elite.
The whitish crescent moon at the nail base, under the nail plate, is called the lunula, and the tissue overlapping the nail at the base is the cuticle. HowStuffWorks Daily Feed
It would be easy to dismiss this as just another exercise in big companies slapping one another on the back. Times, Sunday Times
Some have added an overlapping genoa to help in this regard, but these are not allowed by one-design racing rules which limit the sail inventory.
Arrange alternating slices of the thinly sliced vegetables in overlapping rings from the outside to the inside of the baking dish. The Dinners of Summer
I could actually feel the volume of the bass, and it seemed to me the flares of my trousers were flapping with every beat.
They have to do with overlapping, but not necessarily co-extensive aspirations for specialist teams.
This structure resembles volcanoes on Earth and Venus, with overlapping layers of material from a series of flows.
There can acquire a better gain bandwidth by adjusting the overlapping distance, the side of the antenna unit, and the dielectric constant and thickness of the second media layer.

How To Use Lapping In A Sentence

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