Wrist movement

Usage examples of flick.

Handing it over, she absently flicked a glance at the cowboy then let it stay when she recognized the sandy-haired rider she had noticed earlier with Jessy.

With the heel of his palm on the underside, he flicked a callused thumb back and forth across the pebbled tip until her breast felt heavy and ached for some fulfillment she could not understand.

Flicking the hair from her eyes and the water from both, she peered through the blurs the drops made and saw an Ancestral form on the bank.

A young, bored, anorexic girl flicked the pages of a Simone De Beauvoir novel.

So much for easy dreams of shifting into an Elator and flicking outside the walls, or shifting into an Armiger to carry Silkhands to safety through the air from her window.

But now, with the others gone, leaving the frightened Valeman alone with this unpredictable giant, Flick found himself unable to escape that terrible awesomeness that formed the essence of this strange man.

The dark hazy outlines of the low scrubby tree-tops flicked by our wingtips close enough to touch, while ahead of us through the rain-mist an occasional big baobab tree loomed and Louren eased the jet over its greedily clutching branches.

The colonel had been one of the bathers, and he stood like a circus-driver flicking a wet towel at Crossjay capering.

Captain Bayle flicked the switch once more and hurried, full of worry, to the bridge.

The biologist grabbed a flashlight from a stack near the door, flicked it on, and aimed past the cluttered entrance hall to the dark passages beyond.

McWhirter flicked out the bipod of his Holbars, settled it on the ridge and prepared for covering fire.

By the time The Shadow had flicked the spike back into the tiny bradawl and dropped the instrument into his pocket, there was a click from the doorknob.

Would he turn and attempt to flick Lord Bute from his path as he might a fly?

Nancy stubbed out his cigarillo, then he flicked an imaginary speck of ash off his yellow gloves.

Perched up on the boards she held the reins loosely between her fingers, clucking for the horses to move on, then flicked a whip across their backs.