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Recent Examples of sucked
James Guimaraes was on mile seven of his last training run for the New York City Marathon when he got sucked into a bidding war.
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Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2025
Woody Allen’s 2007 drama, starring Farrell and Ewan McGregor as two brothers who get sucked into a murder plot, isn’t well liked, and Farrell’s performance is liked even less.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Josh, for one, gets sucked into the movement while Anna speaks out against it publicly, much to her misfortune.
—Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
The intention after writing Slow Horses was to go back and write another Zoë novel, but I got sucked into the world of espionage and have stuck with that.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
You are sucked away from real life, from normal life, in order to be put in this machine that transforms you.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
Get this deal, before it gets sucked away!
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Every red and blue photon gets sucked into a plant for photosynthesis, just the green ones ricocheting through the understory to form a kind of therapeutic light bath.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
His frequent use of direct-to-camera narration initially seems like a cloying misstep (mostly because so many other movies have sucked the fun out of that device).
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 30 Oct. 2025
Woody Allen’s 2007 drama, starring Farrell and Ewan McGregor as two brothers who get sucked into a murder plot, isn’t well liked, and Farrell’s performance is liked even less.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Josh, for one, gets sucked into the movement while Anna speaks out against it publicly, much to her misfortune.
—Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
The intention after writing Slow Horses was to go back and write another Zoë novel, but I got sucked into the world of espionage and have stuck with that.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2025
You are sucked away from real life, from normal life, in order to be put in this machine that transforms you.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
Get this deal, before it gets sucked away!
—PC Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
Every red and blue photon gets sucked into a plant for photosynthesis, just the green ones ricocheting through the understory to form a kind of therapeutic light bath.
—Rowan Jacobsen, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
His frequent use of direct-to-camera narration initially seems like a cloying misstep (mostly because so many other movies have sucked the fun out of that device).
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucked
smelled
Verb
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The home smelled so bad that my clients and I still joke about it.—
Natalia Senanayake,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The cafeteria smelled the same.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Sucked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucked. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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