Sentence examples for we lick from inspiring English sources

For most of us, they are utilitarian: we lick or peel, stick and use.

The way we lick our chops and ask about the dishes on the breakfast buffet (the chilaquiles, fried tortilla chips topped with salsa and cheese, and a local dish, tabaso, a dry, spicy pork and onion concoction, are especially seductive) provokes further benevolence as the cook and the waiter (who don't speak English) explain to me how they are made (I don't speak Spanish).

Because even as we lick our own wounds, our continued support of global health, particularly for people with HIV/AIDS, allows us to make love -- instead of war.

We licked the ashtray clean.

That's how we licked that problem".

We licked our fingers and got a little high.

"We actually put pen on paper and then we licked stamps," he smiled.

The crispy duck confit spring rolls were so delicious we licked our fingers when we finished them.

Seeing a far worse electrical emergency elsewhere does put in perspective what we went through, and that we licked it in a fairly short period of time".

Farther along, we licked gelato cones as we gazed at the grand fantasy of the Hotel Excelsior, half-expecting men in tights wielding crossbows to appear in the tower crenelations.

We licked our fingers and read the papers and lingered for hours each morning.