Example Sentences

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As Jefferies software analyst Brent Thill told Barron’s Adam Levine: “Software is sucking wind.”

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

The latest drought has coincided with an industrial boom that is sucking up the shrinking reserves.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

The other is more subjective: clinicians put a finger in the baby's mouth and evaluate how well the baby is sucking on that finger.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

As climate change continues to warm the atmosphere, the air is sucking more and more moisture out of forests and other vegetation that act as wildfire fuel.

From Scientific American • Aug. 23, 2023

Cold water is sucking the heat out of me.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick