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
• Like any good host, Orlok offers to suck the blood out.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 1 Mar. 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

Last Updated: 3 May 2024