Sentence examples for licked at from inspiring English sources

Flames licked at the bleached planks of the cookshack, too.

He licked at our hands and, staggering, fell, but got up again.

A tongue of flame licked at her fingers, and she dropped to death.

Wavelets licked at the shore, at the junk that had managed to climb out of the water.

Flames licked at the plastic tops, and shards of burning plastic rained down on shoppers and workers below.

As the flames engulfed his bedroom and licked at his body, he jumped out of his third-story window to escape.

The fire begins to lick at your leaves and you wait.

Within minutes, fat tongues of flame are licking at the top of its mouth, reaching out.

She licks at the beard trimmings she finds in the sink.

By the standards of respectability, they might as well be licking at gobs of ejaculate.

The travelers have little use for the exotic thickets licking at their khakis and pantsuits above 10th Avenue.