Synonyms:
sucking, suck, suction
Meaning: the act of sucking
Usage examples
She was sucking the life out of poor people.
"This," and he pointed to the nose-leaves, "is the sucking apparatus.
His lungs gave up suddenly, collapsing and then sucking in greedily. Clean air rushed in, letting his head clear.
The fact was that in Florence the poor wretch had got hold of a Tartar, compared with whom Leonora was a sucking kid.
"Master, who is that one who writhes himself, More than his other comrades quivering," I said, "and whom a redder flame is sucking?"
It was once upon a time the trick of a countryman to bring a Cat to market in a bag, and substitute it for a sucking pig in another bag, which he sold to the unwary when he got the chance.
I explained to Traddles that there was a difficulty in keeping King Charles the First out of Mr. Dick's manuscripts; Mr. Dick in the meanwhile looking very deferentially and seriously at Traddles, and sucking his thumb.
Few, however, would go on to the further conclusion that in the aggregate the existing machinery, like an enormous vampire, is sucking the life-blood of the working-people,--though traces of such a notion frequently appear.
By this time she had managed to get back one dimple by turning her face aside for a moment and repeating the odd little sucking operation before mentioned, Jude being still unconscious of more than a general impression of her appearance.