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.
• And that’s what sucks about it.
  — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 20 Dec. 2025
• This one sucks worse than last week for sure.
  — Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
• The idea of like, shut up, suck it up thing.
  — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
• Like if the snow sucks, at least the food can be great.
  — Outside Online, 24 Dec. 2025
• Life sucks for a lot of people.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
• Do not try to suck out the venom.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 30 Mar. 2026
• What sucked was how it was handled.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025
• But some suck less than others.
  — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
• Cut the bite and suck out the venom.
  — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026
• Getting left out of things sucks.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025
• And some people are like, my dad sucked.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
• If the prompt sucks, the output sucks.
  — Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
• Kirby sucked it up and went back to work.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 24 Feb. 2026
• Get one before this deal gets sucked dry.
  — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
• These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Mar. 2026
• Get this deal, before it gets sucked away!
  — PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• The fact of the matter is that this just plain sucks.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• My hearing still sucks, but that's part of life.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
• My hearing still sucks, but that’s part of life.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 June 2026
• To win a game and lose a game and win a game and lose a game sucks.
  — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2025
• That’s kind of their freedom to do that, which sucks.
  — Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
• What comes inside sucks all the sound and air out of the pub.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 27 Feb. 2026
• Our work will never be done — but that work doesn’t have to suck.
  — Charlie Tyrell, Variety, 28 Mar. 2026

suck

2 of 2 noun

• He took a suck on his pipe.
• Shopping for a new swimsuit kind of sucks.
  — Kaelin Dodge, InStyle, 10 June 2026
• The threat didn’t strike me as mortal so much as a colossal time-suck.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2021
• After a short while, those types of surprises and turns kind of suck.
  — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 13 July 2026
• At least one of the gang here asserts that all cars from the 1980s suck.
  — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2022
• And that kind of sucks, because so many of my peers were able to have a little bit more of a childhood.
  — Kat Lazo, refinery29.com, 22 Feb. 2024
• Next, target the time-sucks and digital drudgery that slow your people down.
  — Lindsey Witmer Collins, Forbes.com, 23 Feb. 2026
• A lot of things about the future suck, but being able to yell the garage door open or closed is pretty darn cool.
  — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2024
• And look, getting passed over sucks, but instead of stewing, start asking why.
  — Sho Dewan, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• There’s a comfort, though, in going through the suck together.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2026
• Because losing half of your water on the commute from the water source back home sucks.
  — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2024
• Your baby's stronger suck at the beginning of the feeding may help to unblock the duct.
  — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Their strong suck at the beginning of feeding can help remove the blockage faster.
  — Donna Murray, Rn, Parents, 29 July 2024
• That kind of sucks because the teams that usually win more have more All-Stars.
  — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
• And feeling nauseous from a few minutes of passenger princess phone tasks straight-up sucks.
  — Lauren Mazzo, SELF, 27 Sep. 2024
• Like Howard, Lansing attributes its growth to just how much modern dating sucks.
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2024
• 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
• All those changes can be a total energy suck—especially if your symptoms push you to the brink every month.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 23 June 2025
• The filmed sketch about the people who work together to make the internet suck was a vague idea without any real punchlines.
  — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Mar. 2026
• Blame it on vanity or my own insecurities—getting dropped sucks.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 28 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• A lot of leaders focus their attention and effort on their weaknesses, which can quickly become a time and energy suck.
  — Dr. Kyle Elliott, Mpa, Ches, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• 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
• The key reason why the sound coming out of a smartphone or tablet kind of sucks is because of the size of those devices; there’s just not enough room to put any substantially loud speakers in them.
  — Seamus Bellamy, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2025
• Typical old school and overdone 'being married sucks' schtick and obviously offensive but still kind of tame compared to the other stuff.
  — Raechal Shewfelt, EW.com, 7 June 2024
• So much so that Rodriguez enters his free agency coming off his statistically best season, even though it is not being covered as suck.
  — Tyler Small, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• 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
• This one comes together in a flash with all the delicious flavors of strawberry cheesecake, but without the hassle and time-suck of putting together a full, layered cake.
  — Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
• Herr says the company is about to release a domestic version that can help with three-hour time differences—which, as any coast-to-coast traveler can tell you, can be a sneaky energy suck.
  — Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 31 July 2025