noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
get
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Ultimately, it just gets on your wick .
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It gets right on my wick .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He took one of the smaller candles and, striking a match, held it to the wick .
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On successive Sundays he would repeat this ritual until every wick was alight.
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Smoke that smelt of churches poured from the wicks, drifted over the slowly heaving ocean, hid their feet.
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The wick flickered hesitantly, then licked upward into a bright yellow tongue.
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The flame of the wick was blown down to touch the paraffin in the body of the lamp.
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Twice, its wick collapses in wax.
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With shears from her basket, the Pysillian trimmed the wick , to steady it.