Sentence examples for speak a lick from inspiring English sources

I don't speak a lick of Tamil.

This guy couldn't speak a lick of English when he arrived at Florida aged 13.

"She didn't speak a lick of English, was exhausted and had no idea what was going on," said Joshua Cunningham, the station's production manager.

Displaying a resilience not unlike that of his father, who on first arriving in America did not speak a lick of English and made do working construction, he is unequivocal.

When we weren't working, we gathered at the same hotels, the Palestine, the Sheraton, the Hamra, and a few restaurants, including a Chinese one in downtown Baghdad where the waiters and cooks were genuine Chinese and didn't speak a lick of English.

"I have a friend who is a Latina and she can't speak a lick of Spanish - her parents subscribed to the idea that you come here and you become a Wasp," Ms McVay says.

"My mother was here for 40 years and never spoke a lick of English," Olaya said.

Sedonah, 5, speaks Chinese fluently but her father doesn't know a lick of it.

He speaks of days when he was lucky to be allowed a lick of an ice cube to keep him going and estimates that throughout his career he cut a total of 4,000lbs in weight.

He can take a lick.

Can't sing a lick".