Sentence examples for are licked from inspiring English sources
verb
To stroke with the tongue.
Every year or so, I'll make one, devour it, and then forget about it as soon as the last of its crumbs are licked off my fingers.
Rat mothers lick their pups, and those that are licked less have measurably higher stress levels, which correlates with less epigenetic tagging on genes associated with stress.
But riding the 86th Street crosstown bus a few days ago, it was hard to shake the feeling that New Yorkers desperate for a sliver of peace have come to accept they are licked.
The more baby rats are licked by their parents, the bigger their brains grow!" This battle cry: "Get rats to lick your babies!" is perhaps unlikely to become official policy.
Blimey, what am I like, eh?" Now, raising the bar substantially higher, there's the Russian Roulette video and Rated R, an album that arrives packed with songs in which relationships are linked with violence and criminality: guns are licked, lives flash before eyes, crime scenes are picked over, heads smack against car windscreens.
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They are licking their wounds.
DOOM-MONGERS are licking their wounds.
THEY are licking their wounds in Madrid.
Both sides are licking their wounds.
E: You are licking beards, aren't you?
