Sentence examples for licked into from inspiring English sources
Cigarette lifted, licked into shape.
As the flames licked into the room, they managed to climbed on to the roof of the bay window, him naked and her in just a T-shirt.
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.
He has grand dreams of composing requiems on the death of the American dream, but the baking contests must still be reported, and his fancy prose is licked into shape by a hard-drinking, old-school editor.
TIME, founded on the notion that a surplus of news existed which had to be licked into usable shape, felt no need to gather its own news until the 1930s.
But this isn't just a flabby, badly run business which Hands will easily be able to lick into shape.
The most hilarious pieces in this volume concern his bungling attempts to lick into shape a body that he compares to a burst horsehair sofa cushion or a condom hastily stuffed with an old sock.
Papa Roach has done well by leaning toward the melodic side, hoisting big singalong choruses above its double-time power chords; it also slips pert, staccato Police guitar licks into the songs.
Now he spends much of his time at a corner table in the restaurant, surrounded by the papers on which he has scribbled notes for a book he intends to lick into shape.
Pavel Chekov Full marks to Gene Roddenberry for referencing the playwright in naming Star Trek's Russian junior officer, but whereas ailing, bleakly insightful Chekhov had a wearily blase perspective on pre-revolutionary society, his fictional namesake is boyish, bouncing with health and needs licking into shape.
If Harlem was once known for a generation of jazz singers who mixed the sassiness of blues poetry with elements of ragtime and swing, then Kelis's generation will be known as that of the sisters who brought elements of rock and futuristic Sly Stone licks into contemporary R&B.
