Sucked

Examples

• Light or heavy whatever goes into the Shivering Sand is sucked down, and seen no more. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• She sucked the blood: she said she'd drain my heart, said Mason. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The heat of the burning tallow melts more of the tallow near it, and this liquid fat is quickly sucked up into the burning wick. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• What we good stingy people don't like, is having our sixpences sucked away from us. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Everybody remarked the majesty of Jos and the knowing way in which he sipped, or rather sucked, the Johannisberger, which he ordered for dinner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They said if he had been with Custer that day he never would have let him be sucked in that way. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Well, they ought to be, but they've had a lawsuit for some years which has sucked the blood out of both of them, I fancy. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• In fact, though they were not Egdon men, they could hardly avoid it while they sucked their long clay tubes and regarded the heath through the window. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It seemed likely enough that the weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked away into the river. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Is mine less hard to bear or is it harder to bear, when my whole living was in it and has been thus shamefully sucked away? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I lowered it into the mouth, sucked and snapped in the ends, and chewed, then took a bite of cheese, chewed, and then a drink of the wine. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

Edited by Christine