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Sentence Examples As the laps unwound, the pack split into two groups and the leaders were lapping slower competitors by the ninth lap. Just listen to the song of the lark, the lapping of the waves on the shore. I remembered the young soldier on the cliff top standing with me in silence as we looked down at the peaceful waves lapping the shore beneath us. Now the lake was placid in the heat of the afternoon, the tiny wavelets lapping the shore like a hurried metronome. Then you got the fun of walking over a narrow worm-eaten wooden bridge with the water lapping a few inches below. Evil Laura won't slow down, and near the end of the race I am intent on lapping Lauren. He still was lapping him, but Carter was actually third, a good distance between him and mass of students behind him. Traffic is going to be an issue with the DPs and we'll be lapping the slower cars in GT pretty quickly. Fildes, meanwhile, made a fine start to his Porsche racing, lapping in a comfortable fourth place. McCormick started the three-hour race and got straight into his stride, lapping faster than ever during his 75-minute stint. Eventually, the next bend reveals a stand of huts, tottering on stilts sunk in the muddy wastes of the lapping river. He finally struggled close enough to shore so his feet could touch bottom, then he just stood there with the water lapping at his neck. The very large outboard engine weighed down the stern and waves were lapping over the transom. In the darkened room behind this diorama, a wall-sized video projection showed a seascape of lapping waves. Max's ears drooped a bit and he looked down at the waves lapping at their toes. The aardwolf is a undoubted termite specialist, lapping up exposed workers assembled along foraging trails. Lee awoke in the early hours of the morning to find the front of his house ablaze with fierce flames lapping against the bedroom window. In the transparency of watercolor, the thin veils of color lapping the underlying white paper capture the city's luminosity. With the competitors lapping once every three minutes and racing in total for over an hour there is plenty of spectacular action. It was the voices of a thousand songbirds, of waves lapping against the shore, and of a pack of wolves, mourning the loss of their leader. Show More Sentences When perfection in single sided lapping and double sided lapping are imperative, contact Precision Disc Grinding. One of the reasons why this is more likely to happen when lapping flip chips is the small surface area. Adele looks him over like a cat lapping up cream, obviously finding little fault with his appearance. Flying foxes have a long bristly tongue that's great for lapping up juicy fruit, and for licking and grooming themselves and their friends! Once back in her native Harrogate, the problem was solved with Brooke once again lapping up the local tap water. All the dogs I saw growing up spent their hot Oklahoma summer days lazing under a shade tree, lapping up cool water and scratching themselves. We see him fall to the ground, still holding the hose, from which a small dog starts lapping in a slo-mo sequence, adding humor to the tragedy. Winemakers are trying to offload much of their inventory overseas and foreign markets by and large are lapping it up. My fans, young and old, male and female, straight and gay, are all lapping it up. I'd barely heard of this crew until a few weeks ago, and now I'm lapping their stuff up. The kids are bowing and blowing kisses and lapping it up and us volunteers are melting into the background and letting them have their moment. His first display in March was an instant success with celebrities lapping it up. Joel cut the motor, the only sound was the water lapping the side of the skiff. Their photographs confirm it was frequent to find nests in deeply flooded reedbeds with water lapping the nest edges. The scenery is magnificent throughout and the pristine waters lapping these shores contain a rich store of life. I'd expected to climb up the dike and see the water lapping the top of it on the other side! The sound of lake water lapping on the shore was a constant reminder of the fact that we were on an island. Tonight, as last night, it's just a towpath used by people walking their dogs and a black river lapping the bank. He concentrated only on the image of cool fresh water, rising through his narrow ankles and lapping inside his shins. The ascension of Brit rock pretty much put an end to our first, gently lapping wave of world music. Show More Sentences People milled around, gazing out to sea and watching the waves lapping at the jetty in silent worship. However, the monsoon is no season to lounge on the cosy sands beside the lapping waves. How wonderful, therefore, to see water lapping against the foot of the mount at Clifford's Tower, just as its builders intended. Raymond the reindeer will be lapping up the attention in Bourton again this Christmas despite fears that he would be sleighing away. The warm sand heated our sleep sacks, and the sound of the waves lapping on the shore was a comforting sound to my ears. It's like the sunrise over the horizon, the light catching the edges of the lapping waves. The only movement was the flapping of a hawk or the swoop of a diving osprey, the only sound the gentle lapping of water on the shore. It and others in the ruling combine would be lapping up the tally to drive home their numerical superiority. Water coursed through the empty gullies, filling oceans, creating islands, lapping up on sand and rocks, and hosting a new swarm of creatures. Boats had low aspect mains, small foretriangles, fractional rigs and no lapping foresails. To this day it remains filled with placid, crystal waters lapping at the craggy hewn cliffs. The beach was set out in a crescent moon shape with the ocean lapping up onto the white sand. The only noise was the rhythmic lapping of the sea, the tiny waves gently cresting in the moonlight. Oddly, or perhaps not, it was females who were lapping up the gratuitous crudity more than men. The only sound was the lapping of the waves and the occasional crunch as our little motorboat moved against pebbles on the shoreline. I walk out of the lapping, transparent water in a daze made up of disbelief as much as exhaustion. I can hear the click click of bicycle chains and the gentle purr of cars rolling past behind me, mimicking the lapping sound of the waves. I found this small wall lizard by my garden door this August, quietly lapping up water from the sprinklers. But the sound of Neptune's fateful waves lapping the nearby shore is masterly. The sun is shining, the birds are twittering, palm fronds are waving lazily in the breeze and waves are lapping the shoreline. Show More Sentences The calming sound of sea waves lapping the boardwalk, they swear, is the ultimate antidote to urban stress. She could hear the soft lapping of the lake water on its shores, and the rustle of the breeze through the leaves of the trees. The differences between the lapping waters of the bay side and the pounding waves of the Atlantic are significant. Still, at 58 degrees, that was hardly bath water lapping onto the sand near SeaWalk Pavilion. Bryony spotted the lone figure emerging from the water, the current lapping at his body. Beyond the pane of glass, oaks, elms, and maples are a swelling tide of green, lapping to and fro in hardworking winds. This dull, grey weather has me dreaming of better climates, where I can sit on the beach with a Mai-tai in my hand, listening to the waves lapping up on the shore. He places it in the foreground of the picture, lapping with its little pink tongue at the deep red blood which trickles down the torso of the tortured satyr. Out in the bay the sun flickers on the gently lapping water as the scents of the offerings waft out to sea from the little lanterns and house doors. As you get nearer to the harbour, the traffic noise of the city fades, slowly displaced by the sound of water lapping gently against the quay. Some days the water is more turbulent or stormy, but on other days there is a sense of calm and a quiet lapping on the shore. I like to sail and am currently training up my three children to crew, so that I can relax, just sit back and listen to the sea lapping at the boat. Imagining a relaxing scene, such as a quiet beach with waves lapping the shore, can help both the mind and body relax. A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take. On its own, it is rather disturbing and baffling, in particular the clip where a tiny man is licking the camera lens, which turns into a cat lapping up a saucer of milk. Once the bars are straightened and aligned they are ready for lapping with the concrete element reinforcement, provided by others. The scrub jay drinks by lapping up the water and then tilting his head back in order to swallow, while the mourning dove dips his beak deep into the water and sips away. He moves over to the spoon and begins lapping up the heavenly liquid. As for the latter, there isn't place to be surprised, nor the length of the period nor the over lapping of dates. The local rat population from the nearby landfill site have been lapping up the bonanza of discarded and unused sweetcorn, groundbait and pellets. Show More Sentences The sounds of the waves lapping against the pilings would quickly lull Lily to dreamland, especially since she hadn't slept well the night before. It has now emerged that foreign institutional investors have been quietly selling GTB shares in substantial numbers and the Indian retail investor has been lapping them up. With check-in times now prolonged because of security issues, traders are lapping up even more business as they tempt us with their trinkets and gewgaws. There are wide open spaces here as in Namibia so we can only hear and see the lapping of the river and no other campers. I've listened to them both a few times now and I've been lapping it up. The pristine waters lapping its shores contain a rich store of life. The silence is heavy, intense, slightly disturbed by the lapping of these thousand liters of waters which fervently tumble down the slopes. The lapping tide of gooeyness would be more tolerable if Stark's empathy made him lose a big case, and if that loss got messy. All that is left is to sit back, relax and enjoy the cadence of the waves lapping the shore and the sounds of music and laughter from the lively streets of Soufriere. Everywhere, it clogs the narrow paths between the paqa's domes, clings to the masts and sails of the ship, and teases at the lapping waves of the bay. They can be used for grinding, lapping and pollishing with all different types of consumables. In actual lapping tests, Borazon powder has polished the surface of a large diamond at the same rate as the surface was polished by diamond powder. Ahead of us, now, we can see what appears to be a large country house, built of grey ragstone and surrounded by smooth green lawns with the loch lapping at a small pontoon. On that first day I lay in the netting slung under the bowsprit with some of the 281 metres of sail flapping softly overhead, and the bow wave lapping soporifically below. It was when she was lapping me that I started to get really frustrated. The practice of lead lapping certainly dates to the early days of centerfire cartridges and perhaps even further back into the days of muzzleloaders. Jarvis finished fifth in round ten and second in the first race, six seconds behind Storckenfeldt who was lapping a second a lap quicker at some points. Close your eyes and picture yourself lolling comfortably in a chaise lounge on fine, white sand, the crystal-clear, blue ocean gently lapping the shore just a few yards away. Simply tireless even after hours of lapping, the brakes never bat an eyelash. Conservatives are lapping liberals in the post-Citizens United fundraising game, writes John Avlon. Show More Sentences And as we sat there, eating delicious masala prawns and buttered rice, listening to the calm lapping of the Indian Ocean, we knew we had finally found paradise. We waded across to Witch Island, the warm waves gently lapping our legs. But I'm sure that those poor souls who are charged with thinking up topics for BBC radio phone-ins and discussion programmes will be lapping this one up. The news from Lone Star Park, Texas is that all is well, and that the local media, doubtless suffering from presidential election fatigue, is lapping her up. Use a soft rag and a small amount of lapping paste. In a wider sense carding can refer to the four processes of willowing, lapping, carding and drawing. Grinding, honing, and lapping are the recourse for when the limits of boring repeatability and accuracy have been met. Another advantage is the simplicity in dismantling the infeed and lapping belts, which can be carried out by a single operator, instead of two beforehand. A ferry passes, its bow wave spreading in a V shape and eventually lapping against the stonework by his feet. He's also lapping up la dolce vita in between filming Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York. When you're not curled up in the glass sun room lapping up those views, take a walk to the Daugleddau Estuary or to Cresselly Arms at Cresswell Quay, an old fashioned country pub serving real ale, both just two miles away. Instead of middle aged women working themselves into a lather, of course, this time it's hyperactively excitable little ones lapping up the fun. In Lyon, the night and its outings move to the rhythm of the lapping of the water against the barges moored on the Rhône and the Saône and it is much trendier than on dry land! There is a rise and fall in reports on her proportions creating unrealistic body standards, her whiteness, her role in the fight against the pink aisle, against gendered toys, a tide always lapping at the beach. Cleaning after lapping presents various problems. Only the birds and the lapping of the close river break silence. It was then that I began to hear a distinct susurration spreading through the Great Hall and lapping against the pretentious pillars: they were talking. The dynamics and overall performance of the machine leave Ferrari drivers flabbergasted, yet it's cheap and easy to fix up after an intense lapping session. So I decided to have a fizzy drink, got T a juice at the same time, and swapped them by accident... He, unused to fizziness, thought maybe he could improve the drink by pouring it on the floor and lapping it up from there. Trout one associates with lapping streamlets and pure nature. Show More Sentences In addition, the collating and lapping bars, which still require a traditional drive system, are equipped with a new generation of maintenance-free chains. Parents and their children have a bath in the Mediterranean Sea under the sun of the Hérault and make the best of their stay at the campsite while listenining seagull's call or the lapping of Mediterranean waves. Or like a sea, tossing and turning, surging and lapping, cast on a tide. Sleep came easily that night in our comfortable beds with Egyptian cotton sheets, two to an en-suite tent, lulled by the sound of the waves lapping on the beach below. His mouth moved down from her breasts, lapping cuntward at the same instant her hand exerted pressure to push him in that direction. Anautogenous tabanid females ingest blood by lacerating the skin with serrated mouthparts and lapping up the pooled blood, which can cause significant irritation to the host. These animals cruise the countryside without worry of being hunted, lapping up winterkilled game, raiding unprotected garbage cans, and grazing in grain fields. In two shakes of a duck's tail Gussie, with all that lapping about inside him, will be distributing the prizes at Market Snodsbury Grammar School. You could see she was pleased, she was lapping up the applause. Examples from Classical Literature Then, too, he used to wash Jack, lapping him all over as a mother cat does her kitten. From without came the low lapping of the tide, and from over the water a sailor's chanty from the barque. Reference has been made in Chapter X, to certain forms of scarfing and lapping pieces. Over the rafters we laid a roofing of slabs, starting with the bottom and lapping them, as we had done on our tree house. There was no sound but the lapping of water, or rush of wind through the leaves. The boat at first ran along gently, the little waves lapping along the sides smartly, but not excitingly. The air was damp and cold and the waters of the bay were lapping softly against the pilings which supported the building. At last Cheyne pitched away the cigar-butt, and the two sat in the dark over the lapping water. Some hidden factory sent up a yellow glare, that lit for a moment the waters lapping oilily against timbers. But the only noise they heard was the gentle lapping of the little waves against the sides of their ship. The ship was silent save for the lapping of the water against her sides. The sound of its lapping against the steep rocks soothed her. The yellow flood was now lapping on the ledge all about them. Except for the lapping of the waves the night was very still. Sweeping Jill into his arms, he stepped into the lapping flow of fire. All our thirst, which vanished when the terror came, now returned with the lapping of the water. There are no waves lapping, but only a steady swirl of water softly running against the hawser. The lapping of the waves against the ship's sides, the whirring of the propeller, the throbbing of the engines, drowned the almost soundless approach of the two. She would hang about for hours outside the cellar door for the purpose of sneaking in on the first opportunity and lapping up the drippings from the beer-cask. Find more words! 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