SUCK in a Sentence

Learn SUCK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

76 example sentences for SUCK, such as:

1. The baby is sucking its finger.
2. Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
3. Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
4. Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
5. He sucked hard for air to keep breathing.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suck
 v.  draw liquid into mouth; take in; draw something by vacuum
Classic Sentence: (61 in 5 pages)
1  We hear how you suck up to the Yankees and the white trash and the new-rich Carpetbaggers to get money out of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
2  When the new nurse permitted the baby to suck a bit of fat pork, thereby bringing on the first attack of colic, Rhett's conduct sent seasoned fathers and mothers into gales of laughter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
3  Don't suck the feathers, darling, they may be nasty.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
4  There now, and he pushed the rubber tip of the bottle into the nuzzling mouth and the lamb began to suck it with ravenous ecstasy.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  And there was a bottle that had had milk in it, and it had a rag stopper for a baby to suck.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
6  If she's mad with her, she eats one before her face, and doesn't offer even a suck.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEVEN
7  When she began to suck again, we could see the water all inside whirling round and round, and it made a deafening sound as it broke against the rocks.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XII
8  Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out of them.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
9  And when it had all gone down slowly the hole in the basin had made a sound like that: suck.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
11  The hairy flanks were sucked in and out; there was a blob of foam on its nostrils.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
12  Flanks sucked in and out, the long nose resting on his paws, a fleck of foam on the nostril, there he was, his familiar spirit, his Afghan hound.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
13  And little England, still a child, sucked a peppermint drop out of a bag.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
14  That was the funeral oration of one friend and client; and he could not help a certain apprehension lest the good name of another should be sucked down in the eddy of the scandal.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT OF THE LETTER
15  In fact, though they were not Egdon men, they could hardly avoid it while they sucked their long clay tubes and regarded the heath through the window.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 1 "My Mind to Me a Kingdom Is"
Example Sentence:
1  Don't teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
2  It's good for you to suck in fresh shore air.
3  Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
4  Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
5  Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
6  He should suck the poison from the place where the snake bit.
7  He sucked hard for air to keep breathing.
8  In breathing the chest muscles expand the rib cage and allow air to be sucked into the lungs.
9  He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger.
10  She sucked an ice cube into her mouth, and crunched it loudly.
11  I don't want to get sucked into the row about school reform.
12  The baby is sucking its finger.
13  She kept sucking up to the teachers, especially Mrs Clements.
14  The pump sucks air out through this valve.
15  That firm sucks its new programmers dry after five years and then sacks them.