lick
Example Sentences
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Against a bracingly lo-fi guitar lick played by his pal Mk.gee,
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
The cone ants used their tongue-like mouthparts to lick the harvester ants' bodies, even reaching inside their open jaws.
From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026
Doctors believe her sepsis might have been caused by something as innocent as a lick from her dog on a small cut or scratch.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026
The results are wondrous and unsettling: People without a lick of coding experience are building things that once required trained software developers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
And every lick of it feels like I been rowing in place, never getting anywhere.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
Vocabulary lists containing lick
