Sentence examples for had been licked from inspiring English sources

Sensing beauty in decay, Mr. Deacon sent out patterns of scorching, as though graceful dresses had been licked by flames.

The lamb was still covered by yellow brown foetal membranes though its face had been licked clean.

Meaney's team found that when the rats grew up, those that had been licked and groomed did better at finding their way through mazes.

Having been wiped with a damp cloth, its lips looked as if they had been licked, even though no mouth was attached to them yet.

Meaney's team dissected adult rats and found that licking led to differences in brain anatomy, so that rats that had been licked more were better able to control stress responses.

In the 1980s, governments started to reduce green-revolutionary spending, either out of complacency (believing the problem of food had been licked), or because they preferred to involve the private sector.

Even though Serbia is a long way from joining the European Union, its interpreters had been licking their lips at the thought of thousands of pages of EU rules and regulations needing translation.

After Trump's Inauguration, Chaffetz, who had been licking his chops at the prospect of harassing a President Hillary, took a conveniently lax approach to his job as House Oversight chairman.

The patient confessed that her cat and dog had been licking her wound which required debridement and eventually the infection settled after 5 months.

Fifty years later, it's fair to say that the looming leisure crisis has been licked.

Perhaps their complexion is extraordinarily smooth as though their faces have been licked by the milky tongue of a unicorn.