suck in
Example Sentences
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To offset this, the plant agreed to spend $930 million building a system that includes special underwater towers that would suck in the water slowly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Seattle defenseman Justin Schultz went down to fend off a Pittsburgh give-and-go but the pass made it through cleanly and Grubauer had to suck in a Jansen Harkins chip from feet away while sliding.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 29, 2024
The researchers calculated that a similar closed system, where the pump is enclosed and uses a tube to suck in water and particles, would require high energy inputs to operate.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
Over the past ten years it has developed machines to suck in the air from the atmosphere that filter and trap the carbon dioxide molecules.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2023
I suck in my breath and hold it in my chest until the queen speaks.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
