Sucking
['sʌkiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Suck
(a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf.
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Examples
- Tom had sat upon the bed, swinging one leg and sucking his walking-stick with sufficient unconcern, until the visit had attained this stage. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Instantly a score of cruel fangs and keen talons were sunk into my flesh; cold, sucking lips fastened themselves upon my arteries. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- That all the cruts of Russian sucking swindlers should aid us now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Must you care for him as a sucking child? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is certain that insects and blood-sucking bats determine the existence of the larger naturalised quadrupeds in several parts of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- They were all eating, holding their chins close over the basin, tipping their heads back, sucking in the ends. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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