How To Use Licking In A Sentence

  • They missed it because they are too busy bootlicking ObamaCare, on their hands and knees. Political Instability and the Coming Defeat of ObamaCare | RedState
  • We can add a custom rule for Live ID to copy the nameidentifier to the name claim if we plan on using the name in our application by clicking add, then configuring the rule to copy the Site Home
  • mousetrapping" problem with your browser that won't let you get out of endless attempts to get the action you desire from clicking, close out of the browser completely by hitting ctrl-alt-del. and then terminating the browser. Undefined
  • There were new born lambs frolicking in the fields nearby.
  • Flying foxes have a long bristly tongue that's great for lapping up juicy fruit, and for licking and grooming themselves and their friends!
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  • The concluding Allegro has a rollicking, folksy character, complete with a drone-like accompaniment.
  • They all looked so authoritative when flicking their wands to dismiss boggarts, poltergeists and other pests.
  • There are direct and mechanical effects, such as flicking a light switch that directly links two pieces of metal, and a light goes on immediately.
  • Within seconds, the classroom was ablaze and flames began licking towards the roof and windows.
  • He had been diagnosed as cortically blind and virtually the only vocal sound he was capable of making was a ‘clicking’ in his throat.
  • But Mr. Erwitt also has a gift for clicking off multiple photographs of a single scene, finding and preserving evanescent moments likely to leave the viewer alternately laughing or enrapt. Photo-Op: Head or Tail
  • They are insectoid creatures, hunched over and scuttling, with writhing tentacles where their mouth should be and a grunting, clicking language. WATCHING: District 9
  • It is a rollicking, unapologetic read. Times, Sunday Times
  • My sister went on to describe noises she'd been hearing, the regular old creaks and cracks that are heard in all houses and she'd also heard a clicking sound.
  • A calf that spends the early hours of life licking a dirty udder and hind legs of a cow trying to find a teat is more likely to succumb to disease than a calf in a clean environment that got an early feed of quality colostrum.
  • Barbara has memories of mischievous boys flicking bits of ink-soaked blotting paper at each other and shoving books down their trousers when they were to be caned.
  • The flames were already licking through the panels with a fierce urgency that was terrifying to see.
  • Sadly, the pace slows down considerably at the one-hour mark, and the film has a hard time recovering the sense of rollicking adventure supplied by the first half.
  • Such bootlicking did not move Levin in the least.
  • Everyone was in a circle now, dancing to a rollicking tune played by the small band, and changing partners.
  • He is a gifted storyteller with a deadpan sense of humour and the book is a rollicking read. Times, Sunday Times
  • A hundred years before Bushnell gave his speech, New England gifts were embroidering frolicking lambs and winsome shepherdesses on needlework pictures and samplers.
  • You might have noticed more and more people of all ages gliding down the streets on skateboards, sliding along walls and flicking and spinning their boards with various degrees of success.
  • They will generally signal an interest in solid foods by biting the bottle nipple or showing an interest in licking milk or formula from a finger.
  • Sometimes people they could not see followed them from lane to lane, flicking brights.
  • He waits for this to sink in, and I oblige by widening my eyes and licking my chapped lips.
  • Pets growled and barked at their masters instead of licking their hands and wagging their tails.
  • After that, there was only the sound of clicking abacus beads and the rustle of papers.
  • For the those of you who don't know about the moulting, shitting, barking, licking, drooling beast that's staying at my house for two weeks, you can learn more about her here .
  • On the motorway you can cruise along in comfort mode, switching to sport on the A-roads, flicking to advanced sport to hug corners and bends.
  • Know that thou shalt not escape unstung, after trampling on the head of a venomous snake, licking the corners of its mouth with its tongue, and who hath been hurt by thy foot. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
  • Agitate each mixture for 30 sec by flicking the container with a finger or a vibrator.
  • He spurs on his younger sidekick to a career best on a rollicking blues album that's full of great riffs and inventive playing. The Sun
  • Note the yogurt "mustaches" on the chicken's beak and above the dogs noses as well as all the lip-licking going on. La Gringa's Blogicito
  • She jumped onto the palomino horse's back, clicking softly to it.
  • They gave me about three years based on the pathology report of the liver biopsy, and I take a licking but I keep on ticking.
  • they suffered a convincing licking
  • He-it's usually a he-gets the same satisfaction from rapidly double declutching through the gearbox of a 1953 Jaguar C-type and flicking around the gearstick on a nippy little 2009 Hyundai i10. Die besten Nachrichten von heute
  • I logged on today, only to find my friend's blocked. clicking the 'unblock' button does not work. deleting and re-adding them doesn't work. restarting didn't help. [Help] Most Recent Posts
  • When he stands up and defends himself, well, that's when it turns from just some maybe horseplay to the flicking of the arm to the violent confrontation.
  • These pay out if you buy goods and services after clicking through from their websites. Times, Sunday Times
  • Klezmer, the traditional tooth and heel-clicking Jewish folk tunes that the travelling klezmorim used to play, has been yanked out of the ghetto and thrown on to the dancefloor.
  • I edged away as far as I could get, finished my chips, and decided that I'd pass on licking my fingers clean.
  • Then he jumps to his feet and starts to sing it how he imagines it, clicking his fingers and jutting his chin out.
  • The llama is not in the picture because it was licking my hand not holding the camera. Jay Weston: Food Event at Malibu Ranch Was Different -- It Had Animals as Well as People!
  • We ended up having a nice long chat after I admitted flicking through her diary.
  • I can recall cherishing school as a youngster, frolicking around the lower-level classrooms at Ben Franklin Elementary School, cutting out those little construction paper handprint turkeys with aplomb and reciting more letters and numbers than a bingo caller. Tonawanda News Homepage
  • Alex tousled my hair for luck - which immediately set me off because I'd spent an hour slicking it down.
  • Reaching over her opposite shoulder, Ali drew the sword that was strapped there, flicking her wrist to scatter the drops of moisture that had settled on the metal surface.
  • At another time, his tongue having become swollen and tumefied, it was restored to its natural size and condition by licking the railing of the tomb of this saint. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
  • Does the power surge from flicking a switch on or off negate the energy saved? Times, Sunday Times
  • At this, there are several loud clicking sounds, as of relays closing their circuits.
  • He held his hand out to help her up, Hikari took it, her clouded leopard tail flicking lightly to and fro in an agitated manner.
  • Andrew Galpin also broke the records on Thursday for the loudest clap (113 decibels), most baseballs held in a baseball glove (14), furthest coin flicking (10.64 metres) and furthest golf ball blow (5.835 metres). Radio New Zealand News Headlines
  • Julia Child was a larger than life figure: tall, gangling, rollickingly posh with an extraordinary voice that swooped and swelled and swarmed over its plummy vowels. A Passion for Life « Tales from the Reading Room
  • I know that clicking through to the full post isn't *that* big of a deal, but it's way more convenient to not have to. RSS Feed Update
  • But the forum has outpaced the other, stodgier gay listservs by drawing in members with rollicking discussions about figure skater Johnny Weir's performances at the Winter Olympics. 'Pink Hill Mafia' injects color into Capitol Hill's dull listserv culture
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  • Although the film is strongly plotted, its leisurely pace and quiet tone take it more in the direction of character study than the rollicking caper promised by the packaging.
  • GETTING a rollicking from your boss? The Sun
  • Icrc.org. you'll find updates on their latest projects and can make donations online by clicking "Help the ICRC," that's in the upper right-hand corner. CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2004
  • Wren fought next to him, quick and agile, the blade of the short sword flicking left and right. The Elf Queen of Shannara
  • This thing fits in so well with the Goner aesthetic you'd have thunk that Eric himself played in the band - it's rollicking, R & B-driven gutbucket rock and roll, perfect for a Saturday night beer stomp where only 40 oz. specials are served.
  • Flicking it on, I opened my door, as the ceiling fan started to rotate.
  • The winners were announced at the end, but the prizes didn't matter when everyone had had such a rollicking time.
  • As the train trundled through the English countryside my gaze kept flicking back to the woman with the wild green eyes and golden hair. Sarfraz Manzoor: My family said they would boycott my wedding
  • What precedent is there for such servile bootlicking?
  • The Iconfactory (and award-winning designer Louie Mantia), Ramp Champ takes traditional skee-ball and throws it down in a series of four stylized arcade games, based on the idea of flicking balls at targets of varying points. GigaOM Network
  • I liked to take my time and watch the animals frolicking in the late afternoon sun.
  • Double-clicking bulleted text in a password field selects all the bullets in the text field.
  • One would've had more rollicking good fun in an evening of prayers for the dead.
  • I slide into the flow of tasseled trishaws, pedestrians, clicking bicycles.
  • If it is a clear, cold night, the clicking of their wooden shoes may be heard for some time; but if it is damp weather, the sound is stifled, and after a few moments the faint echo of an "adieu" or Christmas greeting is all that can be heard around the church as the beadle closes it. In the Yule-Log Glow, Book II Christmas Tales from 'Round the World
  • Luke took a few steps forward, then flicking his wrist, sent the lash out at waist-level.
  • The presence of urine increases olfactory sampling through antennules flicking during fights.
  • In a flurry of bright patterns, flashy materials, and skimpy outfits, several girls flurried into the room, all clicking away on high heels and giggling shrilly.
  • Suddenly he sat down and started licking his paws, a portrait of innocence.
  • So the animals will soon stop whimpering and licking their sore tails and soon start gambolling about again.
  • There is a National competition for best photograph of a family, pet or farm animal, so now is the time get those cameras out and get clicking.
  • I have finished my role play, now need unknown life. I want to go back home, the village in childhood frolicking hillside walk.
  • Individuals with minor knee pain, clicking, giving way or a "trick knee" usually are experiencing the earliest symptoms of arthritis.
  • On top of that my big brother, Jake, hit a baseball through the porch window and made me take the blame, so I ended up with a licking from Dad.
  • Mihal prowled through the tray of jewels, flicking stones over with his slender fingers.
  • Just a tip .. the resume tip may work nicely in a magical computerland, where every little worker bee from the boss to the secretary has extensive skills in the arcane and complicated art of clicking a link in an email. From The Tips Box: Mouse Dirt, Credit Spending, Resumé Sending | Lifehacker Australia
  • Daniel Hertzberg for The Wall Street Journal Colson Whitehead The rollicking gusto of some of the writing, with its overheated adjectives and over-the-top images, is hard to resist: It was the passionless, death's-head skull of a long-dead corpse, instinct with hellish life; and the glazed eyes swollen and bulbous betrayed the thing's blindness. Instinct With Hellish Life
  • One loves watching Bush's bootlicking cronies attacking Scott McClellan for his new book critical of Bush. Bartlett rips McClellan, calls allegation 'total crap'
  • If the tide was out, I could smell the tang of seaweed and the musky odor of the mud flats, and hear the clicking sounds as the barnacles and mussels closed up their shells.
  • For the whelp is a piece of flesh little more than a mouse, having neither eyes nor ears, and having claws some-deal bourgeoning, and so this lump she licketh, and shapeth a whelp with licking .... Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
  • Flicking her hair coquettishly, she addressed him as "brother leader" – choosing as a free woman in a free country to honour the title Gaddafi compels his subject people to use on pain of punishment. Lord Woolf's conflict of interest at the LSE | Nick Cohen
  • You can spend ages flicking your finger along and not much happens. Times, Sunday Times
  • She enjoys making people cringe by clicking her legs as she walks. Times, Sunday Times
  • Edit the title clip by double-clicking on it in the Project Tree, then make your changes. Linux.com :: Features
  • It turned easily, making clicking noises like an alarm clock being wound.
  • Which means that by clicking ‘next’ when confronted with the first four unchecked boxes, the user unwittingly elects to receive sports, entertainment, music and new service announcements.
  • Children, teens and adults channel-hop with the TV remote control, afraid to miss a single choice in their final viewing selection, flicking through the pictures and information like some sort of voluntary brain-washing session.
  • If your pain persists for more than a week or is accompanied by redness, shooting pain, swelling or a clicking sound in your joints, you may have a more serious injury.
  • '96: very close to when i registered "biotron" - after randomly flicking through an old Marvel comic - The J Curve
  • Then she leapt, her tail flicking as she dove for the butterfly.
  • She hid her face for a second with the fan, licking the barbed edges of the pins that gave it its shape then bent down close to his face, giving him full leeway to her mouth.
  • We shall find this cheap contrivance useful when 'hydraulicking' the auriferous clays of the Gold Coast. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
  • Gathering video from a webcam can be as simple as tricking the user into clicking on an innocuous-looking link in a Web page, a process known as clickjacking.
  • This little device emits a clicking noise which becomes quieter the more she relaxes. Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
  • Had to disable the lock and was clicking the phone just to make sure that it does not sleep.
  • The clicking of the sheaves in the blocks as the sails ran down, head - sails first, was music to her; and she detected on the instant the jamming of a jib-downhaul, and almost saw the impatient jerk with which the sailor must have cleared it. Chapter 15
  • Dot sat with the yapping dogs on either side licking at her hands.
  • It's smart stuff, but rollicking good fun as well. The Sun
  • And some desultory clicking around Microsoft Office didn't see the power consumption get much above one watt.
  • Licking her lips she began to slowly speak with a small slur.
  • Aside from the white-knuckle rollickings he on occasion delivers, the United players must look at him and feel their spirits lift.
  • But one particular species had the expert twitcher frantically flicking through the ornithology books when it was delivered to his doorstep this week.
  • Once you've gotten your 8 roofs lit, demount by clicking the red drop arrow on the right hand side of your custom bar. World of Warcraft Pro - Brings Game Experience to You!
  • Here's one: It's late summer in New Zealand--that means fleecy lambs frolicking in green grass, warm starry nights in the mountains, close encounters with dolphins, verdant hobbit habitats perfect for hiking... Sick Of Winter? It's Summer In New Zealand...
  • Inverting Sources You can also invert the direction of the source's effect on modulation depth by clicking the "inv" button (right of the word Src or via), depending on which of the sources you would like to invert. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • She herself was currently small, furry wolf-like ears perched atop her head, a canine tail flicking behind her as she waded through the crowd of larger beasts.
  • Fire had sprouted on several of the rooftops and street carts, its tongues licking the feet of those who ran by it.
  • There were about 20 children gambolling about, singing, playing and frolicking.
  • Vettriano has changed the chairs, restyled the diner's hair to reveal more of the nape of her neck and reshaped the men's coat-tails to show the wind licking at them.
  • You are a princess, and whether you like it or not, you were born for a greater purpose than frolicking around with that no good, filthy lummox you have attached yourself to.
  • BTW, you people listening to Geraldine Ferraro talking about Obama "flicking" his shoulders. Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.
  • They depend on people clicking on the advertising banners that now blanket most commercial sites.
  • The way I see it you should go back to licking box or playing with your ouija board or worshiping your flora and fauna gods or whatever you do. Anti-Deer-Hunting Billboard Goes Up in Kansas City
  • United just seem to be clicking into gear and the top two will be looking nervously over their shoulders. The Sun
  • A spark fizzed and crackled, and he stepped into the dark opening, light trailing around him, and flames licking the air behind.
  • They fell to the ground, flames licking around their flaming bodies.
  • But Clara knew Zeke would much rather take a licking from Isaiah than have to deal with Beth Ann who could find ways to make the punishment last a lot longer.
  • This is an everyday sight on the Ancobra, and it shows what scientific 'hydraulicking' will do. To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
  • Clicking his tongue, breathing heavily, standing listlessly and with a dull-witted look on his face at times, he couldn't even keep himself from yawning.
  • Also the main widget view for the netbook is based on flicking widgets, this gives an infinite vertical space for our widgets, because the free layout of a desktop isn't space-efficient enough for a small screen, so a layout that can be "browsed" like exactly an actual newspaper, feels more natural there. Planet KDE
  • To call her diaries a rollicking read is faint praise. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead of entering the search engine's URL or clicking on a favorite or bookmark, you just enter the query in the search box.
  • -- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
  • Some of the men now coming over it with the police had travelled it with Wolseley a few years previously and would have vivid recollections of the flies and mud and portages and the need of manufacturing skidways over the bogs, but they would also recall the irrepressible and uproarious spirit in which they used to sing of their additional accomplishments in the rollicking "Jolly Boys" chorus: Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police
  • From the other, funnels of smoke poured with flames licking behind them, lighting the dark smoke garishly.
  • She turned the T.V. on and started flicking through channels, not finding anything good to watch.
  • You call flicking through a book not being busy? Times, Sunday Times
  • The chick is flicking its head to the side, then lunging forward, gagging. Times, Sunday Times
  • I clutched the black and purple booklet to my chest, before flicking through the pages, making sure nothing was creased and every page was still in its place.
  • A licking from his father was certainly no joke.
  • Fela's songs evolved as jazzy jam sessions best appreciated with repeated listenings, but Femi's debut album, Shoki Shoki, leans toward rollicking, horn-driven funk with manic polyrhythms aimed directly at the dance floor.
  • A public licking for the throe was the least they could expect. Stalky & Co.
  • If a streaker is flicked on to the green baize pitch, play must cease until the opposing player has ‘apprehended’ him or her, by flicking their policeman into position to make an ‘arrest’.
  • The gears worked smoothly, to the minor accompaniment of the ratchet clicking and the links passing over the drive sprocket.
  • The cast was goofy and funny, while the action was plentiful and rollicking.
  • Others who have been waiting in the wings will be licking their chops, jockeying for space, for acceptability among the masses.
  • The sun shone through the trees and leaves and cast a plethora of rollicking leaf shadows upon the ground.
  • By clicking on each image, the physician can further enlarge the photograph to full screen size.
  • The new daytime soap opera has yet to show signs that it's clicking with the television audience.
  • The play is described as 'a rollicking tale about love and lust'.
  • Didn't we all, every one of us, waste hours -- days, even -- aimlessly, purposelessly clicking links from one site to the next, not knowing where we would go and then not knowing where our hours went? Jeff Jarvis: The Distraction Trope
  • Quickly flicking the C stick down will activate the gadget, and it often comes in quite handy while scouting for enemy soldiers.
  • Around this time there was a silent short involving midgets frolicking on a backlot.
  • With cameras clicking, Wills rappelled down the face of a two-hundred-foot cliff while attempting to steady a stretcher filled with ballast to simulate a human body. William and Kate
  • Clicking on or mousing over a category reveals the links it contains.
  • A number of URL shortening sites have added or are adding new features ranging from detailed analytics about who's clicking your links and geographically where they're coming from, to features that "unmask" shortened URLs-so you know where a link will bring you before you click. CIO.in
  • The river is where much of Southeast Asia comes alive, so expect to see children frolicking, men cormorant fishing and women washing and cooking in the shallows.
  • The band moves along in great fashion, quoting some of the better indie groups with the clicking drums and wiggling guitars.
  • But the hair flicking and lame jokes that delight the boys at the Actuary of the Year dinner are gauche and slightly cringeworthy on the stage of a 1,915-seat theatre.
  • This little device emits a clicking noise which becomes quieter the more she relaxes. Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
  • Much of it is a rollicking good read, but the problem is that he approaches his subject as a political historian. Times, Sunday Times
  • Vettriano has changed the chairs, restyled the diner's hair to reveal more of the nape of her neck and reshaped the men's coat-tails to show the wind licking at them.
  • This is done by clicking the mouse pointer either on the top right-hand upward pointing arrow or the extreme top left-hand dash.
  • I could just see myself and all of us getting a licking in about seven jiffies. Shenanigans at Sugar Creek
  • Christmas lights decorated every house with cheery lights and lit up Santas, reindeers frolicking on the bright green grass.
  • Shoppers peered into gallery windows and children basked in the afternoon sun, licking ice cream cones.
  • Woods needed to be in the middle of the ring, constantly on the move with his jab flicking out almost subconsciously.
  • I trust this was done, as I myself observed the licking flames of the conflagration.
  • Not only were photoflashes going off and cameras clicking every few minutes, there was also an interviewer with a microphone, to test the talents of the little ones.
  • We jumped onto the couch, flicking through the cable to watch cartoons.
  • If clicking on the link starts your player, from the mouse menu.
  • I grinned at him, flicking a stray lock of my hair back.
  • She was a wind-up putting-away doll, clicking through its programmed movements.
  • Something is not quite clicking yet at City but this derby game is notoriously unpredictable. The Sun
  • Peter, yep, licking your fingers is an essential part of this dish! Seven Seafoods 2007: Recipe for Spicy Pesto Grilled Shrimp (Γαρίδες με Πικάντικο Πέστο)
  • It is a rollicking number, I will admit that much, but it lacks either the inspiration or the desire to sound at all unique.
  • The little boy is licking the ice - cream cone.
  • Tell us what online boutiques get your mouse clicking and what shops float your style boat. The Sun
  • He walked over to her, goofily slicking his hair back.
  • A Sunday brunch/feast of sausage & beans, ackee & saltfish and garlic crabs was put on and they had me licking my fingers and dying for more.
  • The vampire bat often spends several minutes at its chosen site, sniffing and licking before actually biting.
  • You can go backwards in the article by clicking the leftmost column.
  • He dived right after her, with flames licking his boots as they passed thru the hole.
  • This is accessed by clicking on a sword icon that appears on-screen every once in a while.
  • The video sees the band members going into party mode, shotgunning beers and frolicking around in a swimming pool.
  • That picture of the girls sleeping? frame it.now. and that pic of you frolicking is damn cute. Surely These Were Born In The Depths Of Hell And Released Only To Torture Me For Unseen Wrongoings
  • The album occupies three basic spaces: sparse and mournful, prickly and lush, and rollicking, but no two songs that might fit into any of the three categories sound the same.
  • Swift, clicking footsteps had followed him along the road. UNREASONABLE DOUBT
  • Real estate developers and students will have a rollicking time.
  • Snappy dialogue, a rollicking storyline of love and piracy, and excellent supporting turns by Harlow, Beery, and Lewis Stone keep the bumptious "China Seas" afloat for the whole voyage. John Farr: Clark Gable: King of Hollywood
  • You can then flick between the two by clicking on tabs at the top of the window. Times, Sunday Times
  • So it's all good, rollicking fun. The Sun
  • The only sound I could hear was the clicking of our boots and the hooves of our horses.
  • After you install GPass, launching an application using the proxy is as simple as double-clicking the app from inside the GPass interface. GPass Boosts Browsing Privacy, Circumvents Censorship And Filters | Lifehacker Australia
  • A group of lumberjacks supply a light, Broadway-like component of the piece, with rollicking ensemble scenes.
  • They are all instant communications that are far less bother than putting pen to paper, finding an envelope, licking the flap, sticking on a stamp and popping it in a post box.
  • He licked it off, rather like a cat licking his paw clean.
  • Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.
  • While frolicking tourists sunbathe on beaches and dine in swanky resorts, while a few thousand elite Moroccans are living high on the hog, millions of malnourished, destitute, and sallow Moroccans in remote rural areas scratch the dirt for survival and take shelter in dwellings so sparsely furnished and poorly built that they look like caves. Global Voices in English » Blogging About Poverty And Development In The Arab World
  • Feeling a little nauseous when he was done, Adam was carefully pouring some water on the burnt out stub of his cheroot when he spied James flicking the end of his into a pile of leaves, igniting them.
  • You call flicking through a book not being busy? Times, Sunday Times
  • Waqas Zaidi replied to vandana sardana you have to create two parameters fields in the report. its like question mark icon within the crystal report. while clicking the button to go to the report you have to pass the information from form to those parameters. Eggheadcafe.com articles

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