How to Use sucker in a Sentence

sucker

1 of 2 noun

• That kid is a mean little sucker.
• He's just a con artist looking for another sucker.
• What sort of a cinephile isn’t a sucker for movies about movies?
  — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 28 Oct. 2025
• That makes students who play by the rules feel like suckers.
  — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
• The worst part though, is all the suckers kept coming up from the pear roots.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026
• Clip away suckers or small sprouts that are growing from the base of the tree.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2026
• Cephalopods’ soft bodies sprout arms and bloom with suckers at these same splits.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 28 Aug. 2025
• Then search for outlying suckers and prune them down to the ground.
  — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
• Meynecke's footage showed just how adept the sucker fish are at riding on the whales.
  — Michael Nied, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025
• Pinch small suckers off with your fingers, but use your pruners for larger ones.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
• Pinch small suckers off with your fingers, but use your pruners for larger ones.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 22 June 2026
• The little suckers will ingest this and die.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
• And to die would have been a sucker’s dream, but this is a skull game chump and the past cannot help no man.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 16 July 2026
• The team in green silenced a sea of red and white with a sucker-punch of a goal from a set-play.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Black horse-braid knots ran up and down her arms like the suckers of a cephalopod, or spikes of armor.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Roses will often have suckers that grow from the rootstock of the rose plant.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 16 July 2026
• Eliminate any suckers, which are shoots growing from the base of the tree.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 12 Mar. 2026
• The problem is that the rootstock can send up suckers from the roots below the graft union.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 27 Feb. 2026
• On the bike route, Kocher was a sucker for extra miles and extra hours.
  — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Dec. 2025
• Hindsight, alas, is for suckers and columnists.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2026
• Pando’s problem is that it’s comprised of too many old suckers.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• Look for dead wood, suckers, and crowded branches to improve growth and shape the shrub.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 27 May 2026
• As for the suckers growing on what's left, the Bradford's roots still in the ground.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026
• Each sucker has about two cirri — which are fleshy, nipple-like structures.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• In fruit trees, neither suckers nor water sprouts produce fruit.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
• The suckers on each of the tentacles are also made out of sliced pool noodles.
  — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 July 2026
• Yeah, that totally tastes like a green apple sucker.
  — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025
• Only the suckers are spending big money now—best to wait to see what works for others.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• The piano pop legend is a sucker for things that go bling, but his latest pieces are not for the faint of heart.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 Sep. 2025
• But none of this quite answers your question of how to not be a sucker in a sucker’s market.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 26 Nov. 2025

sucker

2 of 2 verb

• Here’s what to expect in the inevitable event that you are suckered by a subway discount code.
  — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 14 June 2018
• These trees have strong and spreading root systems that sucker readily.
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2019
• These women will vow not to be suckered in because been there, done that and stirrups as street wear are ridiculous.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
• The fake to the running back suckered in the Cincinnati linebackers, who were stuck in no-man’s land.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2019
• Ordinary humans suckered this time will click more cautiously on the next one — or not click at all.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 8 May 2017
• In his plays, naturalism is a red herring, designed to sucker you.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• These highly adaptable plants tend to sucker to form small but manageable thickets.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 May 2026
• There are horror stories of mobile games that seem designed to sucker people out of their money.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• Poplars are fast-growing, unhealthy trees that often sucker profusely in lawns.
  — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2021
• Sizer gave Mesa 50 percent of what his boiler room suckered from its phone targets.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 26 June 2017
• And so, in the end, all this really proves is that women below the average marrying age are more likely to be suckered by a sparkling rock.
  — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2018
• The focus has mainly been on spam bots that harass users or try to sucker them into scams, often related to cryptocurrency.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2022
• Maybe promising deets on Travis -- and then killing him -- was a way to sucker Nat in and then untether her from one of the few living people who loved her.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
• His team suggests the president was suckered into making a bad call by Mr McConnell.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• After his presidency, he was suckered once more, partnering with a Ponzi schemer who left Grant ruined.
  — David Plotz, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• While Charlie Brown dodged kite-eating trees and got suckered into football pranks, his dog soared, swooped, battled, danced, skated and, best of all, wrote.
  — Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2017
• The roots will continue to sucker until dead, so regular (as in possibly weekly) removal of suckers will be needed, probably for a few years.
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2019
• The people who get suckered into marrying or reproducing with them have been through enough hell, and don’t need or deserve to live under a cloud of suspicion ever after.
  — Carolyn Hax, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2018
• In the case of the filibuster, Democrats really do have the power in their hands, and truly have nobody else to blame if they get suckered into handicapping themselves.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2018
• At first, criticism of this decision focused on the prospect that our prodigiously ignorant, easily flattered commander-in-chief would get suckered into a lopsided peace deal.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Mar. 2018
• After returning home from Good Sam’s and eating dinner, the kids suckered me into accompanying them on their walk around the neighborhood with Bucky.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2017
• What connects all of us who get suckered into emotionally investing in these quirky sports that pop up once every four years at the Olympics are the moments of agony and opportunity written on faces and shouted in fist pumps.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2018
• To fall in line with their line of thinking is to acquiesce on choice and be suckered into believing the tired sentiment that only another old white man can defeat Sweet Potato Saddam.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 14 Aug. 2019
• Instead, the show bubbles over with goofy in-jokes about product placement, bad money management, and the highly specific Hollywood danger of getting suckered by one’s scheming influencer spouse.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Edwina is suckered in by the Union corporal, John McBurney, who knows of her heritage and manipulatively speaks to her acute feelings of otherness.
  — Corey Atad, Slate Magazine, 20 June 2017
• Acting as the teen, Boynton Beach undercover detectives suckered Mitchell into sending pornographic images of the teenager.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
• Unlike The Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) tree found in middle America, bottlebrush buckeye is a vigorous, suckering shrub.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2019
• KrebsOnSecurity said that a fraud investigator for a midsized bank had several customers who got suckered after searching for the customer support line for Amazon.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2018
• In November 2020, malefactors in charge of the Egregor ransomware used an extremely offbeat trick to sucker-punch their victim, a Chilean retail giant called Cencosud.
  — David Balaban, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2021
• In Oklahoma, the FBI allegedly suckered another violent loser into participating in a terrorist plot to blow up government buildings.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 Aug. 2017