We might perhaps find room for a Creator after all, as we do now, though we see a little brown seed grow till it sucks up the juices of half an acre of ground, apparently all by its own inherent power.
Just as the battle-field sucks everything into its red vortex for the conflict, so does it drive everything off in long, diverging rays after the fierce centripetal forces have met and neutralized each other.
The American baby sucks in freedom with the milk of the breast at which he hangs.
This moistens the sugar, and then the fly sucks it up.
It attaches itself to the leaf and sucks the life out of it.
It is the uncertainty of your life, it is the cruel anguish of everything I feel, of everything I suspect about you that gnaws at my heart, devours me, sucks my brains!
It does not suck the juices of other insects, but instead it sucks the juices of plants.
Illustration] The female bug, and here is one of the little things, lays the egg on the leaf or twigs, and when it hatches the young bug sucks out the sap of the plant which finally appears as this white froth.
These curious bugs give forth a resinous substance that envelops the eggs and glues them to the twigs whose juices the bug sucks out.
It grasps its victim, in its fore feet like the mantis, but instead of biting its prey it sucks out the juices.
If even a dead one is presented to a young ferret, although he have never seen a rabbit before, he flies at and tears it with fury; but if it be alive, he seizes it by the nose or throat, and sucks its blood.
North American hemipterous insect (Prionidus cristatus) which sucks the blood of other insects.
Defn: Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidæ, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.
By the motion of these jaws a stellate incision is made in the skin, through which the leech sucks blood till it is gorged, and then drops off.
It fixes its proboscis in the skin of the sheep and sucks the blood, leaving a swelling.
The drill makes the hole, and the sand pumpsucks out the water and loose bits of stone.
This is because hot air rises; and in a mine, the hot air over the fire rises and sucks the foul air and gas out of the mine, and fresh air rushes in to take its place.
The clinging absorbent gray darknessSucks them into itself: Drinks the pale golden tears greedily.
An old woman, Tottering on lean leather skinned legs, Sucks with glazing eyes The crystal silken milk That flows from the death wound In a young flower-soft, jewel-soft body.
Takes a box of sugar-candy out of his pocket and sucks a piece.
Every man has his grief, a snake that sucks at his heart, and does that mean that he must drink?
Fair Gerda with her luscious kiss Sucks out, like leech, thy warmest blood; Each time thou tastest Freya’s bliss, Much joy it gives to Angurbod.
When a mosquito (the anopheles) sucks the blood from a person having malaria this parasite passes into the stomach of the mosquito.
The honeybee laps or sucks nectar from flowers, it chews the pollen, and it uses part of the mouth as a trowel in making the honeycomb.
An exhaust fan sucks away the dirt milled off in the process.
Still another type consists of a single perforated cylinder set horizontal with the floor, and revolving alongside of an exhaust box which sucks out the heat and chaff as the coffee is tumbled about in the cylinder.
The car has a perforated false bottom, to which is attached a powerful exhaust-fan system that sucks the heat out of the coffee.
So far as I understand the matter, a vampire is an animated corpse which sucks the blood of the living.
The assurance that the Hand which strikes is the Hand which binds up, makes the stroke a blessing, sucks the poison out of the wound of sorrow, and turns the rod which smites into the staff to lean on.
It sucks up all the generous liquor to feed its own filthiness, and when the staves are broken, there is no wine left, nothing but the foul growth.
The fragrant white pond lily springs from the same black mud out of which the yellow lily sucks its obscene life and noisome odor.
The wind which blows through the left venturi tube sucks the air out of the right-hand side of the mercury tube, and the right venturi tube sucks the air out of the left-hand side of the mercury tube.
Soon she comes back to her motionless head of game: she sucks it, drains it, repeatedly changing her point of attack.
The murderess now sucks the victim's blood at her ease and, when she has done, scornfully flings the drained corpse aside.
What the Epeira sucks is not a corpse, but a numbed body.
Slight incisions are made in different parts of the prize, now here, now there; and the Spider puts her mouth to each and sucks the blood of her prey.
Lavishing her silky spray, she swathes them and then sucks the body at her ease.
Often a powerful centrifugal pump sucks up the water through a pipe reaching to the bottom of the pond, bringing gravel and gold with it.
Everyone has seen the waves of an advancing tide coming up a sandy beach, and has noticed how the dry sand (a good conductor of water) sucks up and destroys the foremost ripples.
It sucks but seldom and is soon satisfied, and even of the small quantity taken, a portion is often regurgitated almost immediately.
It sucks much, but the milk evidently does not sit well upon the stomach; for soon after sucking, the child begins to cry and appears to be in much pain until it has vomited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sucks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
