Licking used in a sentence

Licking in a sentence as a noun

I was failing all my classes in school and my favorite past time was licking the bus window.

People think the purpose is just to get a working strap, so if it fails they'll do some fiddling, wiggling the wire until it passes, or licking their wrist.

If I were Facebook, I would be licking my chops at the prospect of access to the mountain of saved private conversations.

As it stands it looks a lot like they're licking too many cookies, but underdelivering, and being damned on both fronts, but getting the benefit of neither.

Researchers counted every instance of maternal licking and grooming.

Here's an extra bit from the book:"Meaney wondered if a dams licking-and-groorning frequency was just a proxy for some genetic trait that was passed on from mother to child.

When they knocked out the "liking" system, the rats would eat exactly as much of the food without making any of the satisifed lip-licking expression, and areas of the brain thought to be correlated with pleasure wouldn't show up in the MRI.

What seemed like a tiny variation in early mothering style, so small that decades of researchers hadn’t noticed it, created huge behavioral differences in mature rats, months after the licking and grooming had taken place.

When a pup received the comforting experience of licking and grooming as an infant, it grew up to be braver and bolder and better adjusted than a pup who hadn't, whether or not its biological mother was the one who had done the licking and grooming.

So they kept watching the rats, spending long days and nights with their faces pressed up against the Plexiglas, and after many weeks of careful observation, they made an additional discovery: different mother rats had different patterns of licking and grooming, even in the absence of their pups' being handled.

Seems to me Americans enjoy their world power, love licking every one else around, but suddenly, when its them.....I think what the US is today is very much like bad countries in the past who had disproportionate power and use it to further their own ambition at the expense of every one else.