suck up
Example Sentences
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But SpaceX could also suck up attention and money that might have otherwise gone to smaller space stocks, he said.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
A senior source said: "This is bad. It's clearly going to do real damage. And just suck up oxygen from other things we actually want to talk about."
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Either way, the big-name listings are likely to suck up a lot of oxygen and could leave smaller companies struggling to find eager buyers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025
Yet another is a human-controlled device that uses a vacuum tube to suck up the apples.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
As near as I could figure, it took Charybdis about three minutes to suck up and destroy everything within a half-mile radius.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
