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Recent Examples of sucked
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost play a pair of ordinary police officers who get sucked into a crazy case involving multiple murders in their small English town.
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Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 May 2026
Opta’s supercomputer has stayed strong on the current projections for Leeds and Forest, with their respective victories last weekend suggesting that something cataclysmic would need to happen for them to get sucked back into a relegation fight.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 11 May 2026
According to reports, the individual was at least partially sucked into one of the plane’s jet engines.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
The movie starred Ewan McGregor as Christian, a writer who ends up sucked into Paris' Bohemian movement, and Kidman as Satine, the star performer and courtesan at the titular cabaret.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
All series, the Wolves’ wing stopper sucked the life out of Murray with his relentless full-court pressure.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026
The show picks up as Malcolm is sucked back into his family’s orbit when his father, Hal (Bryan Cranston) and his mom, Lois (Kaczmarek), demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
Any passengers not knocked out during the chaos or sucked out into the sky are generally screaming and grabbing for oxygen masks while Captain Rich makes a futile announcement about the importance of not panicking.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2026
Being pulled away from her child felt like the air was being sucked out of her lungs.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 May 2026
Opta’s supercomputer has stayed strong on the current projections for Leeds and Forest, with their respective victories last weekend suggesting that something cataclysmic would need to happen for them to get sucked back into a relegation fight.
—Mark Carey, New York Times, 11 May 2026
According to reports, the individual was at least partially sucked into one of the plane’s jet engines.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
The movie starred Ewan McGregor as Christian, a writer who ends up sucked into Paris' Bohemian movement, and Kidman as Satine, the star performer and courtesan at the titular cabaret.
—Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
All series, the Wolves’ wing stopper sucked the life out of Murray with his relentless full-court pressure.
—Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 1 May 2026
The show picks up as Malcolm is sucked back into his family’s orbit when his father, Hal (Bryan Cranston) and his mom, Lois (Kaczmarek), demand his presence at their 40th anniversary party.
—Jack Dunn, Variety, 29 Apr. 2026
Any passengers not knocked out during the chaos or sucked out into the sky are generally screaming and grabbing for oxygen masks while Captain Rich makes a futile announcement about the importance of not panicking.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2026
Being pulled away from her child felt like the air was being sucked out of her lungs.
—Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked
smelled
Verb
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But Wednesday night, they were handed a harsh lesson from a true contender — one that smelled blood against a team that cowered and played scared to death from the 20-minute mark on.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
14 May 2026
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The air smelled faintly of lunch and feet.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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“Sucked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucked. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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