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Recent Examples of sucked
Eugene Domingo stars as Mauricia, a disrespected restaurant worker who, while watching soap operas one night, gets sucked through her TV screen into a training academy for villains.
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PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
—Priya Kaur, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
The 10-play drive culminated with a spectacular one-handed grab by LSU transfer Daniels, whose outstretched arm sucked the ball into his body between Notre Dame defensive backs Adon Shuler and Leonard Moore.
—Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
Generally, he's sucked at those defenses the last few years he's played in EuroBasket.
—Gavin Groe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Hundreds of pages of university and court records paint a picture of a prickly professor whose challenges sucked up significant university resources.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025
So that just sucked the air out of the room, because the biggest franchise in Hollywood was going to take their attention.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
The air that's sucked into the dryer enters through the vent hole, which is an easy spot to overlook but is a notable lint buildup area.
—Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
These young men were sucked into the manosphere.
—Priya Kaur, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
The 10-play drive culminated with a spectacular one-handed grab by LSU transfer Daniels, whose outstretched arm sucked the ball into his body between Notre Dame defensive backs Adon Shuler and Leonard Moore.
—Susan Miller Degnan, Miami Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
Generally, he's sucked at those defenses the last few years he's played in EuroBasket.
—Gavin Groe, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Hundreds of pages of university and court records paint a picture of a prickly professor whose challenges sucked up significant university resources.
—Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 28 Aug. 2025
So that just sucked the air out of the room, because the biggest franchise in Hollywood was going to take their attention.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
The air that's sucked into the dryer enters through the vent hole, which is an easy spot to overlook but is a notable lint buildup area.
—Lauren Wicks, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked
smelled
Verb
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The vape smoke smelled like unicorn farts.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Sep. 2025
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With no cell service, my two spoiled house pets immediately rebranded themselves as wild animals—sniffing, digging, howling at the moon, and rolling in whatever smelled the worst.—
The Editors,
Outside,
26 Aug. 2025
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“Sucked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucked. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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