How do you use Sucking in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like suck or suction, plus the exact meaning.
Sucking in a sentence
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Sucking meaning
present participle and gerund of suck
Using Sucking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of suck
- Useful related words include: suck, suction, consumption, ingestion.
- In the example corpus, sucking often appears in combinations such as: sucking up, sucking the, sucking on.
Context around Sucking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sucking
- In this selection, "sucking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, blood, begins, begin, mouthparts, blood and usually stand out and add context to how "sucking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and begin sucking blood out and and begins sucking the lifeblood. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sucking" sits close to words such as activision, adamawa and andrade, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sucking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I’m sucking up to the stunt people,” she told Entertainment Tonight. (12 words)
Moths, which have long sucking mouthparts called a proboscis, can reach this nectar easily. (14 words)
An outbreak of the blood-sucking insects has provoked a wave of disgust in Paris. (15 words)
Most drinkers have a tried and true method for bouncing back: sucking down Pedialyte, taking a cold shower, hair of the dog, soaking up the alcohol with big meal… If the last one is your preferred method, VinePair has good news for you! (43 words)
These invasive, foliar-feeding pests have rasping and sucking mouthparts and eat the strawberry plant's fresh, green leaves and fruit by scraping the surface of the leaves or fruit and sucking up the fluids that ooze from the damaged area. (41 words)
Combined with clips of artists like Healy kissing fans and sucking on thumbs, and meme-worthy moments — like Spanish pop star Rosalia's chewing gum stage sequence — it seems like the gags are what trend these days. (37 words)
Here I am sucking in my gut to get the prong into the first hole knowing that whoever got my belt walked away feeling two inches thinner when he buckled up! (31 words)
Most drinkers have a tried and true method for bouncing back: sucking down Pedialyte, taking a cold shower, hair of the dog, soaking up the alcohol with big meal… If the last one is your preferred method, VinePair has good news for you! (43 words)
Example sentences (20)
The parasitic sector attaches onto the producing sector and begins sucking the lifeblood out of the producing sector, much like leeches that attach themselves to a cow and begin sucking blood out of the cow.
These invasive, foliar-feeding pests have rasping and sucking mouthparts and eat the strawberry plant's fresh, green leaves and fruit by scraping the surface of the leaves or fruit and sucking up the fluids that ooze from the damaged area.
Active bear dens with cubs will often produce sounds like squeaking, grunting, humming or sucking, usually when cubs are nursing.
A major social aspect of the game is romancing party members, from the sharp-jawed blood-sucking Astarion to the mysterious Shadowheart.
An outbreak of the blood-sucking insects has provoked a wave of disgust in Paris.
But not before sucking up scores of millions of dollars from a district with real needs.
Cage looks nothing less than absolutely exhausted throughout, haunted by the demands of the job which is slowly sucking away his soul and his character knows it.
Combined with clips of artists like Healy kissing fans and sucking on thumbs, and meme-worthy moments — like Spanish pop star Rosalia's chewing gum stage sequence — it seems like the gags are what trend these days.
Count Dracula has scoured the earth for eons, sucking the blood of innocent victims left and right—yet somehow, McKay provides a fresh take on the blueprint for so much vampire media.
Even though Red Bull's Max Verstappen is sucking up all the energy and almost all the victories in Formula One, McLaren are on the march into Mexico City.
Here I am sucking in my gut to get the prong into the first hole knowing that whoever got my belt walked away feeling two inches thinner when he buckled up!
His comments come after Johnson, writing in the Daily Mail, accused the West of "vacillation" and “sucking-and-blowing-at-once" in its handling of Putin over two decades.
If you were ever lucky enough to try these snacks, you’ll know the joy of sucking up the leftover cereal milk.
I’m sucking up to the stunt people,” she told Entertainment Tonight.
It’s a subset of the nascent, venture capital fueled carbon removal industry, which also includes better known approaches like carbon-sucking fans in Iceland.
Minnesotans deserve a respite from those two narratives sucking the joy out of ballpark entertainment.
Most drinkers have a tried and true method for bouncing back: sucking down Pedialyte, taking a cold shower, hair of the dog, soaking up the alcohol with big meal… If the last one is your preferred method, VinePair has good news for you!
Moths, which have long sucking mouthparts called a proboscis, can reach this nectar easily.
Not only that, but the villain’s cape gets caught in his jet’s turbine, sucking him inside.
Once the background information is dispensed, McGann and cinematographer Tim Cragg attempt recreating the immersive experiences of sucking in air and sinking into darkness.
Common combinations with sucking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sucking up 19×
- sucking the 13×
- sucking on 13×
- and sucking 12×
- of sucking 8×
- sucking in 7×
- is sucking 5×
- sucking down 5×
- sucking her 5×
- by sucking 5×