How to Use suck in in a Sentence

suck in

verb
Definition of suck innext
Synonyms for suck innext
  • Now that that’s out of the way: This movie sucks, and Sandler sucks in it.
    — Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2024
  • With the strongest storms, the inflow can be sucked in at 50-60-plus miles per hour.
    — Megan McCluskey, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • When using it, don't suck in air near the fire -- that hot air and ash can damage the tool.
    — Anthony Marcusa, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • While seated, suck in your cheeks and hold for five seconds.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Horses have massive lungs—the animals are born to run and suck in loads of air in the process.
    — Wired, 28 July 2022
  • The bite is often subtle, as a bass simply sucks in this lure.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In the first test, hair got stuck to the brush roll and popcorn kernels resisted being sucked in.
    — Alida Nugent, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The idea here is kind of clever: the robot comes with two bins, one that sucks in dust and one that acts as a water tank with a mop pad on the bottom.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
  • These cold regions slow down gas molecules enough to be sucked in.
    — Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 22 June 2024
  • Embiid dribbled toward Jayson Tatum, sucked in Brown on help, then flipped the ball to Harden in front of the 76ers’ bench.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
  • The halos’ strong gravity sucked in gas, which collapsed to form stars.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
  • There is simply no really big idea on the horizon that will suck in investors for the long haul.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • Each ship that goes through the canal uses millions of gallons of water that gets sucked in from nearby lakes.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Others just wondered aloud if they’d been fully sucked in.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2024
  • It’s designed to reduce smoke so you don’t get smoked out and sucks in oxygen from below, blasting hot air over the fire.
    — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Reviewers say the design is butt-lifting and sucks in the stomach for an ultra-lean look.
    — Dana Leigh Smith, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The non-rotating structures have vents and internal fans that suck in the thin layer of air lying over the surface of the wing.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The first black holes could suck in about one solar mass of material from the horizon around themselves.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Just suck in your cheekbones and apply to the hollows of your cheeks, working your way up towards your temples.
    — Jacqueline Kilikita, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The rising air also can cause intense updrafts that suck in air at a rate to cause strong winds to develop.
    — Fox News, 6 Sep. 2020
  • About half of the stale, germ-laden air gets flushed out of the plane as the engines suck in more air from outside, and the other half gets recycled through HEPA filters.
    — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 19 July 2022
  • The bag fits in most airline carry-on sizers, and its side compressions straps help to suck in the bulk where possible.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • In the hopper, the electricity would be used to suck in and collect CO2 from the atmosphere and crush it into a liquid.
    — Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2010
  • Forests, called the lungs of the world, suck in planet-warming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and are home to numerous wildlife species.
    — Edna Tarigan and Victoria Milko, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2023
  • It's called not sucking in my tummy after having three kids.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2024
  • The design of this hood intake is counterintuitive, but that bit near the windshield sucks in cold air.
    — Michael Teo Van Runkle, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The barrel's airflow sucks in the hair and then automatically wraps it around, all on its own.
    — Malia Griggs, Glamour, 16 July 2024
  • Right now there is this black hole that is AI sucking in everyone with any smarts, skills, talent, degrees.
    — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • This creates a bubble of low pressure, which sucks in air, creating wind.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Civil wars also have a bad habit of sucking in neighboring countries.
    — Kenneth M. Pollack, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2016

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