How to Use suck in a Sentence

suck

1 of 2 verb
  • 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
  • The idea was to use ingredients that don’t suck, charge a little bit more, and stay open around the clock.
    Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2022
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suck

2 of 2 noun
  • He took a suck on his pipe.
  • At least one of the gang here asserts that all cars from the 1980s suck.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The threat didn’t strike me as mortal so much as a colossal time-suck.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • Beach chairs just kind of suck, and this is both a conversation piece and one of the few ways to really lie comfortably.
    Red Fabbri, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2021
  • But the belief that the venue was a money suck prevailed, and New York State lawmakers effectively killed the project in 2005.
    Audrey Wachs, Curbed, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Fail and Cincinnati was primed to grab an early lead and the suck the life out of the home crowd, which doesn’t require all that much from the Cowboys’ front-running wine-and-cheese fan base.
    Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe that explains one of the Washington women’s rowing team’s mottos this year: Embrace the suck.
    Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
  • At the same time, it can be manipulated by bad actors and is often (as it was designed to be) an addictive time-suck.
    Tevi Troy, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Just know that shivering, which is your body’s main method of keeping you warm if you aren’t dressed properly, is a real energy suck.
    Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2020
  • And the internet is designed to be used for both high-res immersion and in lower-resolution suck-from-a-straw toe-dipping.
    John Koetsier, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Upon maturation, the adult hookworm latches onto the mucosa of the small intestine and begin to blood-suck.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2011
  • Already, Rendon was the Angels’ $245-million money suck, spending the majority of the last two seasons on the injured list while taking up about a fifth of the team’s payroll.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But Kevin Stefanski is preaching daily to ‘embrace the suck’ and not worry about the uncontrollables.
    cleveland, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Finding the immediate satisfaction in 'the suck' makes getting through the struggles of exercise so much easier.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Your conclusions are unimpeachable — attention is paramount, phones can be a massive attention-suck, kids notice everything.
    Washington Post, 8 May 2022
  • To be sure, the cryptocurrency is an energy suck, consuming more electricity than the entire annual energy consumption of the Netherlands, according to Cambridge University researchers.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Mar. 2021
  • He took a suck on his pipe.
  • At least one of the gang here asserts that all cars from the 1980s suck.
    John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The threat didn’t strike me as mortal so much as a colossal time-suck.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
  • Beach chairs just kind of suck, and this is both a conversation piece and one of the few ways to really lie comfortably.
    Red Fabbri, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2021
  • But the belief that the venue was a money suck prevailed, and New York State lawmakers effectively killed the project in 2005.
    Audrey Wachs, Curbed, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Fail and Cincinnati was primed to grab an early lead and the suck the life out of the home crowd, which doesn’t require all that much from the Cowboys’ front-running wine-and-cheese fan base.
    Dallas News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Maybe that explains one of the Washington women’s rowing team’s mottos this year: Embrace the suck.
    Matt Calkins, The Seattle Times, 29 May 2017
  • At the same time, it can be manipulated by bad actors and is often (as it was designed to be) an addictive time-suck.
    Tevi Troy, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Just know that shivering, which is your body’s main method of keeping you warm if you aren’t dressed properly, is a real energy suck.
    Ac Shilton, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2020
  • And the internet is designed to be used for both high-res immersion and in lower-resolution suck-from-a-straw toe-dipping.
    John Koetsier, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Upon maturation, the adult hookworm latches onto the mucosa of the small intestine and begin to blood-suck.
    Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2011
  • Already, Rendon was the Angels’ $245-million money suck, spending the majority of the last two seasons on the injured list while taking up about a fifth of the team’s payroll.
    Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But Kevin Stefanski is preaching daily to ‘embrace the suck’ and not worry about the uncontrollables.
    cleveland, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Finding the immediate satisfaction in 'the suck' makes getting through the struggles of exercise so much easier.
    Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 3 Jan. 2023

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