How to Use suck in a Sentence

suck

verb
Definition of sucknext
Synonyms for sucknext
  • The fan sucks smoke from the air.
  • I sucked a cough drop.
  • The boat was sucked under the water in the storm.
  • The tide almost sucked us out to sea.
  • She just sucked her teeth and stared.
  • These plants suck moisture from the soil.
  • She sucked on an orange slice.
  • The board’s light seems to suck the light out of the rest of the stadium.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The longer the fetch, the more time the cold, dry air mass has to suck up warm water along the way.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The pandemic took away most of the tools in the suck-up bag of tricks — but not all was lost.
    — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
  • It’s horrible to do a great show, and then suck on the last song.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2022
  • While cleaning your house might suck, you're left with a clean house at the end.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Are Black artists allowed to suck and still be revered?
    — Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Dec. 2022
  • In some ways, this was just a desperate wish that the movie not suck.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Jobs aren’t fun all the time and sometimes bosses suck.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • That would suck, but sometimes that’s just how life is.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Use a grill brush to dislodge the soot, then suck it up with the vacuum.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Oct. 2022
  • No longer do women have to suck it up or endure the pain.
    — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • No matter how much the drama tries to suck you in, do your best to resist the pull.
    — Chicago Tribune, 29 July 2022
  • Now, take a little bite out of the skin, set it aside and suck the juice out of the pomegranate.
    — Bethany Thayer, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Scale insects attach themselves to the host plant and suck out the plant juices or sap.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 14 May 2022
  • The Aggies’ didn’t have a No. 1 ranked recruiting class to suck up all the oxygen in the room.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • These apps are designed to suck you in and keep you spending more time on them.
    — Annie Lane, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But the air runs out for the patients, who suck at it with desperate gasps.
    — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Your music's gonna suck until like 85 percent of the song is done.
    — Ana Monroy Yglesias, Billboard, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This is the kind of thing the Democrats get sucked into, or suck themselves into, time and time again.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2021
  • But even a pandemic couldn’t suck all the fun out of making TV.
    — Sera Gamble, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The EyeVac Electric Dustpan is a gift that doesn't suck.
    — CBS News, 5 Dec. 2021
  • One to fill the reservoir on the S7 MaxV Ultra and clean the mop, the other to suck up all the dirty water from said mop cleaning.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Like any good host, Orlok offers to suck the blood out.
    — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 1 Mar. 2022

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