suck in
Example Sentences
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Aspirating devices, for example, constantly suck in air in order to detect even small quantities of smoke in a room.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
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
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
We’re all in this together is the takeaway of Posner’s play — and that doesn’t suck in the least.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2023
I suck in some coffee, skip to the last paragraph: the inevitable eclectic, the obligatory post-feminist, a however and a despite.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
