Sentence examples for we licked from inspiring English sources

We licked the ashtray clean.

That's how we licked that problem".

We licked our fingers and got a little high.

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.

And then if we lose, we learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off, we get back in the arena, we go at it.

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.

But from Atticus she learns that personal integrity rests upon your actions, even when, as Atticus admits, "we were licked a hundred years before we started".

Or as Atticus reminds us, explaining why he took on a legal case he almost certainly would lose: "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win".

We frequently licked the lead paint on our cribs because it tasted good, and we always sat too close to our color television sets after school because we were alone in the house until mom got home.