Example Sentences

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“Technology had sucked so much of the oxygen out of the rest of the market,” said Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026

The trust was struggling to control rising costs that had sucked up its reserves, including a new, surprising culprit: the snowballing cost of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

Well-intentioned projects had sucked up billions of dollars.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

“But when I came on the field and sprinted for five minutes, it was like someone had sucked all of the air out of the stadium. I felt my lungs burning.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2022

Water in the earth had dissolved parts, and the plants had sucked them up.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel