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take up with the tongue
The cat lapped up the milk
the cub licked the milk from its mother's breast
How To Use lap up In A Sentence
- I know that the kids lap up every last bit of detail, and they are the prime readership after all, but for me it's a rather stodgy and tedious read.
- They were in good wind now, and sent him slap up to the ceiling first time, against which his knees came rather sharply. Tom Brown's Schooldays
- You can see why audiences lap up the comedy, the colour and the phantasmagorical love story at its heart. Times, Sunday Times
- While some seemed to lap up the spotlight, others grabbed the opportunity for a quick kip. The Sun
- Not surprisingly, it is a comparison that the Bush people lap up with delight.
- Of course we all lap up the details, but the sheer volume of wandering trousers in the modern age has blunted moral outrage. Times, Sunday Times
- While some seemed to lap up the spotlight, others grabbed the opportunity for a quick kip. The Sun
- We were guests of honour and given a slap up feast, then my friends went on stage to play their set.
- Three capybaras have been born at the popular animal park and the babies are now delighting visitors as they lap up the autumn sunshine.
- He has the look to suit glamorous big European nights under the floodlights and the reputation and aura of a man made to lap up the spotlight. The Sun
