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Example sentences for "sucked"

Lexicographically close words:
suchness; sucht; suchwise; suck; sucke; sucker; suckerlike; suckers; sucking; suckle
  1. A police captain found me out, and for five years sucked my blood--every cent I made--till he died.

  2. He held his bleached face up to it, as though he would press against its sympathetic warmth; and he sucked deeply of the September air.

  3. Many of us kept our ration of wine in a small tin cup, and sucked it out with a quill.

  4. They sucked the sail, which was wet with the rain, but from being previously drenched with sea water, it imparted a bitterness to the fresh water which it received.

  5. The weasel had bitten him behind the ear, and sucked the blood; his feathers were a good deal ruffled, but no other bite had been made.

  6. We brought some milk out in a saucer, but he could not manage to get his nose over the side; so we made a little pond of the milk on the grass, and he dipped his black snout into it, and then sucked it up greedily.

  7. At a critical moment the pump sucked dry, the water in the well being exhausted.

  8. The earth trembled and throbbed during the explosion, then the column sank, started up again, dropped once more, and seemed to be sucked back into the earth.

  9. Rionga immediately seized my arm and greedily sucked the scratch.

  10. Her maritime nations fastened like leeches on the west coast of Africa and sucked her life blood.

  11. First a boat, in which was Kalulu, an attendant of Stanley in all his journeys, was sucked within the power of a fall and plunged into the abyss.

  12. They thus escaped being sucked into a vortex which would have sunk the boat and drowned all.

  13. Then she was sucked below the surface and anon hurled up again with several men clinging to her, among them Uledi.

  14. The ship had descended through the big shaft, had been sucked down by the terrible air current, and had really landed in a strange country.

  15. We fell very rapidly and the terrible draught sucked us down with incredible rapidity.

  16. We are being sucked down into the depths of the earth!

  17. In their ship they were being sucked down into unknown regions and all their efforts did not avail to save them.

  18. All this while the ship was being sucked down at a swift pace.

  19. When they first drew near this island they were almost sucked into the depths of a great whirlpool, caused by water pouring down a big hole that seemed to lead far into the earth.

  20. He sucked and swallowed the cold snow, his lips quivered but his eyes, still smiling, glittered with effort and exasperation as he mustered his remaining strength.

  21. But he's sucked our blood and now he thinks he's quit of us.

  22. It seemed that he had no sooner sucked air back into his lungs than his earphones rang with the words that are balm to all bomber pilots.

  23. He groaned and sucked air into his aching lungs.

  24. It had sucked in the cheeks and the chest and the girth of arm and leg.

  25. The span of his seventy-five years had acted as a magic bellows--the first quarter-century had blown him full with life, and the last had sucked it all back.

  26. The worms always endeavoured to drag the leaves towards their burrows; and they tore or sucked off small fragments, whenever the leaves were sufficiently tender.

  27. I felt myself sucked down into gulfs whose emptiness offered no resistance .

  28. Towards sunset, moreover, the streaks and patches vanished as though sucked below, while thin strips of tenuous cloud appeared from nowhere above the northern cliffs.

  29. Seeing his two half-sucked Pineapple Crisps exposed upon the scales, he hastily put them into his mouth.

  30. The infant sat and sucked its thumb and stared at him.

  31. He rocked on his toes and sucked his mustache ends again.

  32. May sucked her finger and ducked her head sidewise, smiling.

  33. May sucked her middle finger and wagged her head from side to side.

  34. His thoughts were eddying in a current which sucked down his self-esteem.

  35. Lamplight sucked at the shadows but could not draw them utterly to itself so that the corners of the big room remained vague and only here and there some object gave out a grudging glint.

  36. When the woman turned her head Alice saw her bright blonde hair combed in glossy and salient puffs, a cheap and unconscious defiance above her wasted face and her breasts, sucked dry on her flat body.

  37. Mr. Price, hands in pockets, rose on his toes and sucked his mustache in and out.

  38. They took their presents and turned the toys over gravely, and sucked gingerly at the sweets.

  39. They squatted on their little heels and sucked their little thumbs, and waited in wondering patience for this strange mystery to occur.

  40. The dead man's son reverently put on his clean shirt, and the youngest urchin sucked his thumb and continued to grin at me.

  41. I had often wished to have been once sucked by the vampire, in order that I might have it in my power to say it had really happened to me.

  42. He bore no lyre, he rang no challenge out, But Life warmed to him, warming me with her, And as he neared I felt beneath her hands The stab of a new wound that sucked my soul Forth in a new song from my throbbing throat.

  43. The banks glided by very slowly and very evenly, the wash sucked after us like water in a slough after a duck boat, and the sky above the yellow sand looked extremely blue.

  44. Many years afterwards some fragments of the canoe were found jammed between the rocks; but not one of the bodies ever rose to the surface, sucked under by the current of the whirlpool.

  45. The sandbanks here are quicksands, and vessels which strand are sucked down and heard of no more!


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sucked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.