"lick" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Flames were licking hungrily at the material; it was blazing fiercely.
- He fumbled for a match and the flame caught, licking hungrily with each second.
- He bit her lower lip until he'd drawn blood and hungrily licked the red drops with his tongue.
- But it was licking hungrily toward its steel sides.
- He got to the front, and walls of flame were licking hungrily at it.
- The snoozing coals discovered the food and licked hungrily up through it.
- Fire was crackling all about them now, licking hungrily at the roof of the tent.
- He licked at her throat hungrily, closing his eyes.
- Fires broke out, flames licking hungrily along the wooden hull.
- It required careful work to get through, and that took time, a constraint not binding the fire licking hungrily below.
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