Break (a habit)

Usage examples of kick.

Martemus had already resolved to kick the abomination to the groundafterward .

Kicking Acorn to a gallop, she jumped a hedge and raced toward the mill.

Her metabolic enhancer kicked in, flooding her body with extra adrenaline and inducing extra adenosine triphosphate.

I deserved a kick in the pants for my meddlesomeness, but lo and behold, three weeks later a fragile blue aerogramme with a Swiss postmark arrived from the Montreux-Palace Hotel.

As I state in my affidavit, he became very agitated, grabbed me by the throat, threw me to the ground, kicked me several times.

Finally, his F-14 was lined up on catapult one, the deck sailors attaching the catapult to the nose gear Collins checked his instruments, the twin turbines purring aft, waiting to be kicked into full thrust.

If you doubt me, go and ask her who held her in his arms by the creek agen the selection, and who kicked Sammy Deans out of the tree where he had the ill-luck to be sitting, hearing all that was said?

He shrugged and started toward the house, still walking aimlessly and kicking at things.

The supporting poles were kicked aside, and before they hit the ground Erik and Akee, along with two other men, were lifting the heavy oaken bar out of the brackets that held it in place.

The little boy had now converted his alpenstock into a vaulting pole, by the aid of which he was springing about in the gravel and kicking it up not a little.

Strand and Cockspur Street, Cabrillo pulled up next to the Ural and kicked at Amad with his boot.

Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.

Elizabeth Ames knew that when the carriage door shut, when the last instructions were shouted out of the window, and when the frantically waving handkerchief disappeared in a cloud of dust, she would go inside, kick off her shoes, and succumb to the bliss of a cup of tea in the middle of the day.

When the nooses had been fastened to the crosspiece the angareb was pulled away and the victims were left swinging and kicking in the air.

The divine retribution for every deed is the kick of the gun, not an extra explosion arbitrarily thrown in.