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Recent Examples of sucking
If bitten by a rattlesnake, victims should stay calm, limit movement, call 911 and seek emergency medical attention, avoiding myths such as sucking out the venom or applying ice.
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Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Building these rudimentary and temporary platforms—something modern gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees still do—would have offered protection from predators and blood-sucking insects.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
As Earth’s tectonic plates shifted, huge volumes of volcanic gas and carbon dioxide transformed the atmosphere, sucking oxygen out of the oceans and devastating shallow-water environments.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026
For a second Emily stood there on the porch, twisting up her mouth, as if sucking on the words before speaking them.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
Feeling restless and reckless, Michael (LJ Benet) is drawn to a hard-rocking local band that is secretly a quartet of young vampires that is literally sucking the life out of the community.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
Margo’s Got Money Troubles premiered the same week as the third season of HBO’s nihilistic teen drama Euphoria, in which Sydney Sweeney’s dead-eyed Cassie has taken to the popular subscription service, dressing up as a seductive puppy and even a pacifier-sucking baby.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
If data centers are resource-sucking, burning-hot leviathans, then Northern Virginia should be a hellscape.
—Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Common Pests That Affect Spring Hydrangeas Aphids are sap-sucking small insects that cause hydrangea leaves and stems to become distorted.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026
Building these rudimentary and temporary platforms—something modern gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees still do—would have offered protection from predators and blood-sucking insects.
—Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
As Earth’s tectonic plates shifted, huge volumes of volcanic gas and carbon dioxide transformed the atmosphere, sucking oxygen out of the oceans and devastating shallow-water environments.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2026
For a second Emily stood there on the porch, twisting up her mouth, as if sucking on the words before speaking them.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
Feeling restless and reckless, Michael (LJ Benet) is drawn to a hard-rocking local band that is secretly a quartet of young vampires that is literally sucking the life out of the community.
—Frank Rizzo, Variety, 27 Apr. 2026
Margo’s Got Money Troubles premiered the same week as the third season of HBO’s nihilistic teen drama Euphoria, in which Sydney Sweeney’s dead-eyed Cassie has taken to the popular subscription service, dressing up as a seductive puppy and even a pacifier-sucking baby.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
If data centers are resource-sucking, burning-hot leviathans, then Northern Virginia should be a hellscape.
—Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
Common Pests That Affect Spring Hydrangeas Aphids are sap-sucking small insects that cause hydrangea leaves and stems to become distorted.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sucking
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The entire tourism industry takes a hit when its postcard beaches are piled high with foul-smelling seaweed.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
11 May 2026
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When Squeeze showed his tongue, that was the reptile’s way of smelling beings around him.—
Karie Angell Luc,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
Verb
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Video of the incident shows the boy trying to scramble up the bank to safety as the beaver chases him before biting him on the thigh.—
Stephen Sorace,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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Her biting and formally audacious narratives examine class, politics and — a speciality — the interiority of women through enigmatic portraits of psychologically complex individuals.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
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“Sucking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sucking. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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