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Example sentences for "suckers"

Lexicographically close words:
suck; sucke; sucked; sucker; suckerlike; sucking; suckle; suckled; suckles; suckling
  1. I put out bait that always lands supposedly honest men, like yourself, and you swallowed it, hook and all, just like a lot of other respectable suckers before you, and since.

  2. Here, attaching itself to the mucous membrane by means of its suckers and crown of hooks, it rapidly develops and grows into the adult tape-worm.

  3. The two suckers have nearly the same relative size and position as in the D.

  4. The head is provided with four suckers and a prominent rostellum armed with about sixty hooks.

  5. Its suckers are moderately large, and the bifurcate intestine is unbranched.

  6. The head resembles in construction that of the pork tape-worm, being provided with four suckers and a prominent crown, with from thirty to fifty hooks arranged in a double circle.

  7. In stage 21 oral suckers and a large amount of yolk are still present.

  8. Get a barker out at the port, run special busses, charge the suckers a mint for a cheap thrill.

  9. He'd tried to help the suckers in his column, and here he was.

  10. Vigorous young plants and suckers in good soil will produce handsome, arching, elegantly divided leaves 5 ft.

  11. Increased by seeds, or by separation of the suckers which are occasionally thrown up.

  12. One of the most valuable suggestions was in regard to prunings and keeping the vine free from the suckers that sap its vitality.

  13. It will pay well, both for quality and quantity of fruit, to keep most of the suckers cut or rubbed off.

  14. But all societies are composed of suckers and the wily leaders who exploit them.

  15. I confess that I had never considered them as anything more than harmless suckers and funereal fakes.

  16. I have seen twenty suckers try to make them give up, but I never saw them do it.

  17. The balance of the suckers did not want to get sick, so I closed up; but if it had not been for the Captain's first play, I would have done a much better business on that boat.

  18. Molasses will catch more suckers than soft soap.

  19. At last they came to a call; then they knew that they had got the worst of it, yet they never uttered a word or make a kick, and when we reached New Orleans they confessed that the boys had made suckers of them.

  20. They all wanted it just then, and they were in the biggest hurry of any suckers I ever saw.

  21. I have caught a great many suckers in my time, but Mr. Picket was the first one I ever salted down.

  22. We had been out on the road, and were on our way back to St. Louis, and had got away with all the suckers on the train.

  23. I told him all suckers talked that way when they lost their money.

  24. I have also had them to say they would put the suckers ashore, and that would break them all up.

  25. I tried to give you the wink, and have you come up and win out something, so the suckers would take hold, but I could not get your eye.

  26. They are but human, and like other mortals can be landed for suckers if the bait is good and nicely handled.

  27. It was a great big old sucker who wanted to be a kind of teacher over the school; for every time one of the young suckers would get up too close, he would pull his tail, and that would scare the young one so he would not take hold in earnest.

  28. I've seen suckers win a small amount, and then run all over the boat, telling how they downed the gambler; but they were almost sure to come back and lose much more than they had won.

  29. The larva has twelve legs or arms, large compound eyes, and suckers enabling it to cling firmly.

  30. At first he does nothing but hang on to bits of weed, or the broken remains of the covering of the egg, by a sticky substance formed by a special pair of suckers placed just behind the mouth, as shown in our illustration (fig.

  31. Are increased by suckers or by seed sown in spring.

  32. About May they are, if necessary, thinned out again, and the suckers that are exhausting both soil and plant removed.

  33. It may be propagated by suckers from the roots, by layers, or by cuttings taken in autumn.

  34. They are propagated by layers or by suckers from the root.

  35. It is propagated very easily by suckers taken off in spring or summer, placed in a temperature of 75 degrees.

  36. It may be propagated by cuttings placed under glass in sandy loam, or by suckers taken when the leaves have fallen, but is more generally increased by layers.

  37. When the leaves have fallen all the suckers are drawn out and the canes pruned (about four being left to each root).

  38. Encourage well-balanced heads to the bushes by cutting back any branch that grows too vigorously, and remove all suckers as they make an appearance, except they are required for transplanting.

  39. Increase by division or by suckers from the root.

  40. They are increased by suckers from the root.

  41. It will succeed in almost any soil, and may be increased by suckers from the roots.

  42. Suckers are drawn by the hand from the old roots any time between October and February, and set in groups of three in rows 6 ft.

  43. They may be propagated by layering in the autumn, or by suckers taken in the spring.

  44. As seedlings they could have neither germinated nor grown, but as suckers they were kept alive by the parent until light supply became available through their increasing height or through thinning of the forest.

  45. The owner of today, by cutting down the old stand, gives the suckers conditions hitherto unknown to the redwood.

  46. This is the marriage of the blood-suckers (Picacha).

  47. This is the more desirable place for budding, insuring, if we nip the suckers as they may appear, a plant that above ground shows only the shoots of the desired variety.

  48. Root apparently annual; but the plant propagates by suckers from the base of the stem.

  49. Aw, them suckers gets theahs wether my men's 'lected a' not.

  50. Therefore, all superfluous suckers should be removed and not more than 2 to 3 stems to a plant should be permitted to develop.

  51. The plant, if allowed to do so, usually sends up a large number of suckers from the base, which constitute a drain on the vitality of the plant.

  52. In a short time suckers leave the branch and descend into the mould, and, when they are sufficiently developed, the branch is cut off and planted, the suckers forming the roots of the young tree.

  53. They take in their fluid nourishment by suction, but the mechanism by which this is effected is not yet known, as from the jaws themselves forming the proboscis, there can be no suckers lodged within the latter that might act.

  54. The five small zones are perforated with regular rows of holes, and through these perforations pass the suckers or water-tubes which are their locomotive appendages.

  55. It is composed of comparatively small perforated plates through which pass the suckers or locomotive appendages.

  56. But a closer investigation has shown them to be only modifications of the locomotive suckers of the Star-Fish and Sea-Urchin, but ramifying to such an extent as to assume the form of branching feelers.

  57. In all, this radiation is accompanied by rows of suckers following the line of the diverging rays.

  58. The male of Colymbetes transversalis has also an orbicular shield, but the suckers are much less strongly marked.

  59. Suckers should be kept down unless wanted for propagation.

  60. The first year after a chestnut is cut, a crop of young suckers come up around the stump.


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