What is "flicks"

Usage examples of "flicks".

Then he adds the water to the kettle and flicks the clamps in place over the fill plate.

He flicks the reins, and the wagon creaks, though not so loudly as when it entered the yard.

Liedral flicks the reins, and guides the cart through the stone archway and into Jellico.

She flicks the reins, and the cart lurches forward over the hardened clay.

Brede flicks the reins to urge the gelding to close the gap between them and the rest of the squad.

Liedral flicks the reins and leads the way past the armory and toward the street that will lead to the west road to Diev.

He flicks the reins and recovers the bow hastily, but only to slash the string and throw the bow stave into the alleyway as the three pass.

She flicks her short hair briskly, and her massive jaw wobbles a run of water down onto her chest.

He claimed to have learned it in the Shetland Islands, where the girls came thirty lonesome miles over the moors to drink nickel beer and see the flicks at the Coast Guard station.

She is hypnotized by the surgery or treatment flicks, chewing slowly, nudging me with an informative elbow and a nod when a particularly smooth bit of scissor or saw work is goring its way across the screen.

She flicks the paper scraps away and fingers the yellow splinters that look as though somebody small and very rough had busted out of the old fir.

Her wrist flicks loose from my hands, swatting me, groping for me as I fall clattering against the forgotten gun on the floor.

His head jerks as though kicked hard, his body spasms once then relaxes and some blood flicks up and out across the road.

Here were the old rules, written across the sky in dark, gliding purpose, in curved lines of flight, in the panicking dips and flips and desperate lunges, dives and sprints of the target, all answered by instant flicks and turns executed by the following, closing hawk.

Then firing sounds from somewhere to our right, and the ground beneath the soldiers heading for the office building leaps and flicks in miniature detonations of earth and stone.