Sentence examples for licked away from inspiring English sources

She simply licked away the blob.

Some people who think they are safe for another year suddenly see their homes licked away by the current.

During anal feeding, present only among lower termites, a pastelike liquid or droplet is discharged from the anus of the worker and licked away by the dependent castes.

That day Amy became my soulmate: she helped me through the darkest days, made me smile when nothing else could, and licked away my many tears.

"We are, " they said, even as their pages Were being torn out, or a buzzing flame Licked away their letters.

Like a dog, he begins to lick away the blood.

All of them were engaged in licking away the ointment with what felt, as she later said dreamily, like a million tiny tongues.

The rain knocks at the metal roof, and she imagines it licking away at the limestone under her house, the way her children lick away at Everlasting Gobstoppers, which they are not allowed but which she still somehow finds in sticky rainbow pools in their sock drawers.

We have no choice but to keep licking away until our virtual pockets are empty, our taste buds numb, and our faces free of skin ailments associated with manganese deficiency.

There's a host of cheesecakes and torten on offer too, and while the indoor eating area is somewhat bland, there's a lovely outdoor terrace where you can lick away at your chosen flavours in the warmth of the sun.

I remember washing the kitchen floor for the third time that week with a mad dog licking away my tears as I wept, not for my situation, but because I had read Raymond Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric and felt that I, as a woman, could be expected to be a robot performing all duties with no feelings.