How to Use suction in a Sentence

suction

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• The vacuum cleaner picks up dirt by suction.
• The octopus grasps things using suction.
• Press down on the plunger to create a tight suction.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 21 May 2026
• Want more suction for less money?
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 30 Mar. 2026
• And in my opinion, the suction power is a sweep above the lot.
  — Lily Gray, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2024
• Plus, its strong suction sucks up pet hair, dust, dirt, crumbs, and more debris.
  — Melody Kazel, People.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• Attach a suction-cup hook to the tank of your toilet or the wall.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
• It’s equipped with strong suction to suck up small messes in tricky spots around the house and in the car.
  — Isabel Garcia, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
• Its dual-speed suction and long battery life will clean a whole day's worth of mess.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 15 Nov. 2022
• Its spray, scrub, and suction process easily lifts odors, stains, and hair.
  — Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
• Turn off the beater bar on your vacuum and turn the suction down to low.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
• They were then towed out to sea and tethered to the giant suction anchors.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
• The suction can act to bring the hair or other blockage up the drain to be removed.
  — Brittany Anas, House Beautiful, 29 July 2023
• Keaton uses a long wand to suction saliva pooling in his dad’s mouth.
  — Tom Murphy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Aug. 2022
• Use saline drops for children and suction bulbs for toddlers or infants.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2022
• The suction can often dislodge the blockage and push it through.
  — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025
• These efforts do help sell vacuums that still have some suction.
  — Alexandra Kelly, Martha Stewart, 4 Mar. 2026
• For kitties, there are three suction levels to handle cats with both thick and thin coats.
  — Christine Persaud, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
• Our tester was impressed with the suction power of the 70mai.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Feb. 2023
• The tornado’s suction is too much.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
• The upright vacuum is equipped with strong suction to clean pet hair, dust, and crumbs from hard floors.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
• Kids could slip, fall in the water and get pulled toward the dam or caught within the suction of a pump.
  — Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
• This feeder suctions to your window for fast setup in just a few seconds.
  — Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2026
• This set comes with six blazepods, a carrying case, three suction mounts, two straps, and two baseplates.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 8 Dec. 2022
• Wang then used a suction tube to remove the spider, which was about two millimeters wide.
  — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• Use mason jars with screw-top lids or airtight containers with suction rings.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 17 Dec. 2025
• Dirt and pet hairs are no match for this vacuum's powerful suction.
  — Chicago Tribune, 27 Nov. 2022
• Its 55 air watts of suction is far less than most cordless models, but is more than enough for hard floors.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 14 May 2026
• Its powerful suction is suitable for both hard floors and carpet.
  — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
• Beyond that, the brand designed its suction to mimic a baby’s.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022

suction

2 of 2 verb

• The surgeon will suction blood out of the area.
• No preschooler suctioned to my side.
  — Alexandra Oliva june 1, Literary Hub, 1 June 2026
• The hospital did not have the tools to suction out the clot.
  — Daniel Torrent, STAT, 25 Feb. 2026
• Each bottle can be hung on a shower hook or suctioned to the wall for easy use.
  — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2023
• Once you're done, follow up with the crevice tool to suction crumbs and dirt along baseboards.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
• For babies, suction the mucus from the nose with a bulb syringe.
  — Nicole Harris, Parents, 25 Aug. 2023
• The fat cells are then disposed and can never return to the area they were suctioned from.
  — Bryce Gruber, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Mar. 2016
• At his lab, the four resident nurse sharks swim in a tank looking for food to suction up.
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• Tests there have involved suctioning nodules from the seafloor to ships above.
  — Leonardo MacElloni, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026
• Gently suction dirt, pollen, and dust from screens, being careful not to press too hard.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 27 Sep. 2025
• Use your vacuum to suction it away every week.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2025
• Vacuum your rug every week to suction out dirt and keep the rug from turning dingy.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
• Put the brush tool on your vacuum cleaner's hose and use it to suction dirt and debris from the firebox.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
• Sweep the dirt into a dustpan or suction it with your vacuum cleaner.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 May 2026
• This can be from over-ear headphones cupping your ears or in-ear buds suctioning the inside of your ear to block out sounds.
  — Loren Brutsch, Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Doctors performed a procedure to suction huge clots from her brain, only to find that new ones had formed.
  — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• One option is corralling the oil so that it can be skimmed or suctioned, which is difficult in roiling seas.
  — Daniel Akst, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2017
• Use a hose attachment to carefully suction them up.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
• Clogged filters reduce air flow and affect how well the vacuum can suction.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 18 Sep. 2025
• Jaffe had the kind of berries-and-cream upbringing that tends to suction people into stasis and turn them stale.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
• From there, nodules were suctioned up to the surface through a miles-long industrial straw.
  — Harry Stevens, New York Times, 3 June 2026
• The Rev Air works for all hair types, provided your hair is long enough to suction into the wand.
  — Essence Wiley, InStyle, 19 Feb. 2026
• My right vocal cord was now paralysed; the nurse who tried to suction my lungs got the tube stuck before turning the suction on.
  — Francesco Clark, refinery29.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• Wait for it to land and carefully suction it away with the narrow crevice tool of your vacuum cleaner.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 5 Mar. 2026
• Place a piece of screen on delicate fabrics to protect them and keep them from getting suctioned into the hose.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
• When the hole is about three feet deep, groundwater rushes in and is suctioned out with a mechanical pump.
  — Paul Tullis, National Geographic, 6 Mar. 2019
• Sophia's nose needs to be suctioned at least once an hour, her equipment repeatedly changed out or sanitized.
  — oregonlive, 26 Oct. 2019
• My right vocal cord was now paralyzed; the nurse who tried to suction my lungs got the tube stuck before turning the suction on.
  — Francesco Clark, refinery29.com, 9 Mar. 2021
• Firefighters suctioned a large amount of soot from her airways, according to the complaint.
  — Kristi Miller, Twin Cities, 30 Dec. 2025
• This smart vac offers solid suctioning power and was remarkably easy to set up, which was why our testers enjoyed it.
  — Shayna Murphy, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020