Lapping Synonyms

Wash or flow against
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. washing
  2. lipping
  3. laving
Move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swishing
Covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. imbrication
  2. overlapping

Lapping Sentence Examples

  • When she walked back through the dairy, Brutus was lapping water.

  • Her eyes returned to Jonny, who was lapping up what was left of the dead woman's blood.

  • Rhyn gasped and struggled to sit.  Kiki's still body lay a few feet from him, the ocean lapping at his brother's feet.  The Caribbean night was humid and warm, and the moon large over head.

  • Could you hear the gulls, the clink of the cubes and the waves lapping the shore?

  • Most enjoy the gentle lapping sensations and the feel of cool water.

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