Sentence examples for gets licked from inspiring English sources

It has resisted efforts to ease the conditions attached to the bail-outs of Greece and Ireland, and is insisting that Portugal, which started negotiations on a bail-out this week, also gets licked into shape.

Talk about rinsing it... Elton gets licked Ice cream-makers Ben & Jerry's decided to honour Elton John, as they've done previously with Jerry Garcia and Dave Matthews, with a limited-edition flavour in his honour, 'Goodbye Yellow Brickie Road'.

And also budget-wise, I don't think we can pay more than $5 for anything that gets licked.

"We got licked," Schiano said.

But he didn't quit; he just got licked.

"But I can't feel good about getting licked".

Sinclair got licked, he said, because the opposition ran what he called a Lie Factory.

She was "tired of laying over," she said, and "getting licked without any input".

"We didn't get licked by no rinky dinks," Paterno said.

Of the Hurricanes, Paterno said, "We didn't get licked by no rinky-dinks".

In 1934, Upton Sinclair got licked, but a great many End Poverty in California candidates got elected, as Democrats.