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Sentence Examples Not bothering to change out of my pajamas, I traipsed downstairs and into the sunroom where I found Taur flicking through his math exercise book. He drags on his cigarette, flicking through channels with the remote control of the TV his mother bought last Christmas. The presence of urine increases olfactory sampling through antennules flicking during fights. Diminishing fossil fuels and global warming are enough to make anyone think twice about flicking a light switch. The children playing in the camp have never had a luxury on flicking on a light switch or running a bath. The bartender lines up two half-pint glasses and pours them full of sambuca, before flicking a match at them. Advanced Shake Control lets you shuffle or skip songs by flicking the phone with your wrist. You spent a lot of time flicking and teasing your hair with an Afro comb at lunch time, or during class or after class. Quickly flicking the C stick down will activate the gadget, and it often comes in quite handy while scouting for enemy soldiers. Chelsea plays with the tip of a spider plant, flicking it with her fingers. He shook his small head in annoyance, his little bit of a mane moving slightly in the breeze, and his short, fluffy tail flicking at some flies. Now they had grouped together against the steep slopes of a lava ridge, tails flicking, necks craning, heads turning. While everyone's attention was on Kyli, Joy came up behind Cat and noticed her tail flicking back and forth. He held his hand out to help her up, Hikari took it, her clouded leopard tail flicking lightly to and fro in an agitated manner. When Tyger sees my tail, the first new appendage I have learned to move, flicking in the air, he raises his eyebrows. It would be fine, except that her pony tail keeps flicking in my face, and there's nowhere else for me to move. Woods needed to be in the middle of the ring, constantly on the move with his jab flicking out almost subconsciously. And then, as if nothing had happened, the stone cat turned and ambled away, its shoulders rolling arrogantly, its tail still flicking. He leapt at it, a lunge ending with a quick snap of his fingers, flicking the switch off. His quest began in 1979 when he was flicking through a book of British hit singles and realised he already had many of the tracks listed. Show More Sentences Do that, and we may start flicking through the address book on your mobile phone. They're happy in their Studio City home in LA, and have already started flicking through baby name books. Historians flicking through the record books will conclude, accurately as it turns out, that he mustn't have been playing. The guy on the end of the phone line is flicking through the club history book, looking for nuggets of information with which to woo. The black horses tossed their heads and whinnied loudly, stamping the ground and flicking their tails restlessly. Opening my bedroom door, I stepped out and padded across the floor to the kitchen, flicking on the small light on the side. They all looked so authoritative when flicking their wands to dismiss boggarts, poltergeists and other pests. The knight looked over with unfocused eyes, flicking back and forth like a caged animal. She lay slothfully on the couch, remote control in hand, flicking aimlessly through the various channels. I sit on a stiff leather backed chair flicking through an impenetrable legal periodical as the receptionist sorts through the post. When at art college I much preferred flicking through people's notebooks and sketch books than their finished pieces. We ended up having a nice long chat after I admitted flicking through her diary. Caleb woke up with a great big yawn, his carmine tongue flicking over the roof of his mouth. He was loading cartridges, rolling the film on and flicking them out rather quickly. It is probably catbirds' habit of flicking dead leaves aside with their bill that exposes catbirds to questing ticks. Instead, she carried on stroking his shoulder, flicking back matted strands of dark hair. Armitage, for his part, is nostalgic about Subbuteo, the kicking, flicking football game which features heavily in the novel. Haley held the hammer just above the head of the chisel for a moment before flicking it back and bringing it down, hitting the jewel hard. And after heated arguments and manic flicking through the pages of the dictionary, I lost the game, and sulked. They showed their insouciance by sticking six-inch straws in their mouths and flicking them with the swipple at each pass. Show More Sentences I went miserably to the living room, flicking blindly through a book as I listened to the sound of running water and clinking china. She watched as he stood, and walked brusquely to the closet, flicking through his wardrobe. As I sat down at my desk, I couldn't stop running my hands through my hair and flicking it every few seconds. She turned the T.V. on and started flicking through channels, not finding anything good to watch. Silently, Shawn reached a hand into the right pocket on his jeans and withdrew a compact pocketknife, flicking it open. On the motorway you can cruise along in comfort mode, switching to sport on the A-roads, flicking to advanced sport to hug corners and bends. It would not do to be messy now, he thought, flicking a small amount of ash from the cuff of his trousers. He looks at them with half an eye, while flicking between the six or seven collapsed documents on his computer screen. For the music fan of a certain age, flicking through gig guides has recently become a source of profound discombobulation. She muttered, flicking ashes irritably at a passing woman, who snorted her displeasure. I parked the trolley and grabbed up the paper, dumping it unceremoniously on top of the counter, and started flicking through it. Sophie rolled her eyes and took a last drag on her durry before flicking it into the toilet bowl and flushing it. Raoul was not amused to find me flicking my chewing gum into a priceless installation piece I assumed was a wastepaper basket. A frogfish extends and dangles its illicium just above its mouth, flicking, jerking, and waving the lure. Mihal prowled through the tray of jewels, flicking stones over with his slender fingers. His heart raced, flicking against his rib cage and tightening his throat to near total constriction. If I wanted to see the anatomical structures underlying an injury, I was unable to do it as quickly with the CD as flicking through a textbook. But the hair flicking and lame jokes that delight the boys at the Actuary of the Year dinner are gauche and slightly cringeworthy on the stage of a 1,915-seat theatre. Their ears were pointed and long, flicking back and forth as they moved. I clutched the black and purple booklet to my chest, before flicking through the pages, making sure nothing was creased and every page was still in its place. Show More Sentences Then she leapt, her tail flicking as she dove for the butterfly. Friday Generations of footie fans are devastated to learn that Subbuteo is to be kicked into touch after keeping fingers flicking for more than 50 years. This is already an age of channel-hopping, and people are more than capable of flicking through a range of sources and making their minds up for themselves. He set off across the cavern, his tail flicking back and forth angrily. She herself was currently small, furry wolf-like ears perched atop her head, a canine tail flicking behind her as she waded through the crowd of larger beasts. Rather than seeing himself as a descendant of a long line of respected Irish playwrights, he claims his influences are film directors and V-sign flicking punks. What a long time ago it seems that David Bradley's Billy was on the Kes posters and paperback covers, flicking us a good old-fashioned British V-sign. While his public image then was of some long-coated dandy, flicking away female attention with his Byronic hair, it was a guise that ill-fitted him. We jumped onto the couch, flicking through the cable to watch cartoons. I sit on the living-room carpet flicking through Bondini's books. Ashraful started slowly, but then accelerated, picking fast full tosses off his toes outside the off stump and flicking them to the fine leg boundary. When he stands up and defends himself, well, that's when it turns from just some maybe horseplay to the flicking of the arm to the violent confrontation. They are ground birds, with very long hind toes and claws, like those of skylarks, and they have a habit of running about like wagtails, though without flicking their tails. It's a measure of the current embattled men's magazine market that flicking through a pile of them in a public bar feels dirty and faintly illegal. He paused to ignite the cherry on a respectable reddish-brown stogie, flicking away the match with a few expert twists of his thick wrists, exposed ahead of rolled up sleeves. I am lying on a red couch in the living room, mindlessly flicking the clicker. Sertori, pilloried by many, showed his worth by winning York their first corner of the match then flicking on Agnew's carefully flighted dead ball at the near post. She poured water into the modem kettle she had brought only a few months ago and plugged it into the socket on the wall, before flicking the switch and waiting. To shoot correctly you held the marble between the thumb and forefinger and by flicking the thumb you propelled the alley forward, at great speed. He is flicking idly through the tabloid tittle-tattle, recounting a story of marital strife, laughing at the expense of others, and yet again avoiding work. Show More Sentences The office was dark so I could only just make out his outline, but he soon obliged me by flicking on the anglepoise lamp on the desk to light the place up again. At Bangka we found abundant pygmy seahorses, cuttlefish, sponges hiding huge frogfish, and a painted anglerfish slowly flicking her lure in hopes of attracting an unwary meal. Music sounded from the speakers, animations flicking across the screen. Reaching over her opposite shoulder, Ali drew the sword that was strapped there, flicking her wrist to scatter the drops of moisture that had settled on the metal surface. The derailleurs are shifted by flicking the brake lever sideways. Stretching his arms wide above his head, the tousle-haired man trotted out into the main room of the ship after flicking the switch next to his bedroom. There are direct and mechanical effects, such as flicking a light switch that directly links two pieces of metal, and a light goes on immediately. Like electronic media, your eye keeps flicking back and forth over the images trying to decipher them, creating little associative narratives in your mind. I saw the girls giggle as they passed, flicking coy glances at me. A health check means visiting the doctor's surgery, not casually flicking through Men's Health magazine, while waiting for a short back and sides. But one particular species had the expert twitcher frantically flicking through the ornithology books when it was delivered to his doorstep this week. She dipped her fingers in the glass flicking the liquid on Sally's face. Barbara has memories of mischievous boys flicking bits of ink-soaked blotting paper at each other and shoving books down their trousers when they were to be caned. My book has been translated into German and yet the audience crammed in a stuffy room at the British Council offices are flicking through the English language edition. Roles of vomeronasal organ chemoreception in tongue flicking and feeding behavior of the lizard Chalcides ocellatus. And this year we're all so chuffed because Bodg, Matt and I are flicking the big switch on Grey Street, Newcastle, next Thursday. Wood found a higher tail flicking rate in Common Moorhens when a predator was nearby and Alvarez and Alvarez et al. The unique flicking is an uncoiling movement powered by contraction of the striated muscle. Two sunbathers have appeared in court after allegedly flicking their middle fingers at a man while they were drinking by a pool at a Dubai hotel. I'm Tris. Patricia.' She was back to her hair, eyes crammed to the side, snapping off dry split ends and flicking them to the floor. Show More Sentences My group had a great time flicking, hitting and passing the ball, or sliotar, to give it its Gaelic name. When a more aggressive method is required, it reacts by flicking tiny bristles or urticating hairs at its enemy, which can cause skin irritation. This week the truth was revealed after Jake the Bagot Billy Goat was caught red-handed flicking the switch. Redstarts are closely related to the Robin and behave in a similar way by flicking their wings and tail nervously. Agonistic encounters between males are characterized by varying degrees of pedipalpal opening, elevation displays, and rapid flicking of the antenniform leg. I very often marvel about the way in which many young girls are proudly flicking and swinging tresses reaching down to the small of their backs, even on swelteringly hot days. I was flicking through the newspaper when I glimpsed a funny headline. Honeydew flicking by treehoppers provides cues to potential tending ants. Examples from Classical Literature Baron Balt Haer, wearing a colonel's uniform and flicking his swagger stick along his booted leg, stood in the doorway. Looking at these flicks makes me wanna shave their flicking heads and give them some zit cream for their greasy-ass faces. Da Souza, who opened the door for them, returned to his seat, moodily flicking the crumbs from his trousers with his serviette. This includes scraping or flicking off the stinger with something like a credit card, a fingernail, or a knife. Janice Glover, 46, was convicted of assaulting 81-year-old William Thomson by sticking a pen in his ear and repeatedly flicking his ears. Whenever he went near the pan he burned himself, and then he would drop everything and dance round the stove, flicking his fingers about and cursing the things. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with flicking What is the plural of flicking? What is the adjective for flicking? What is the noun for flicking? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words flickery flickers flickerings flickering flickered Flicker flick-on flicks flick through flied flier fliers 8-letter Words Starting With f fl fli flic flick flicki flickin