Sentence examples for lick for from inspiring English sources

That fierce opening guitar lick, for starters, and then the beat Prince's beats!

"Ten, nine, eight …" All Marc needed was one lousy mouth to lick for a few seconds, and this whole awful nightmare would end.

Related: UK finances buoyed by influx of payments from wealthy taxpayers That represents painfully slow progress, especially for an economy that has been growing at a reasonable lick for the past couple of years.

There was the poor old man who had travelled miles to beg the foreigner known for carrying medicines to save his son from snakebite, and the impoverished mother who, following the laws of hospitality, fed the few tomatoes from the family's garden to her guests, then sneakingly offered one of her hungry sons her fingers to lick, for the slight tomato savor that remained.

While livestock trails are viewed as problematic in terms of forage quality and erosion potential, herders also mentioned that trails are necessarily part of an ecosystem with concentrated resources (the trails to a watering hole or a salt lick, for instance, or perhaps those to a grazing zone inside the conservancy).

You just lick, for Christ's sake.

Definitely worth getting your face licked for.

The difference between riffs and licks, for example.

Not only has he got the wind resistance licked for any contingency.

They both expressed their frustration with the Sinn Fein leader, Gerry Adams, with Clinton saying at one point "we've all taken our licks for Gerry".

All the pots licked For their stew Lie empty, cold; Soon the last copper coin will arrive.... But, dear Papa — I've Tasted the gold.