Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sucking
IPA transcription: [s'ʌkɪŋ]
Pronunciations of sucking
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noun meaning of the word
  • 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.
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