suckering
- present participle of sucker.
Example Sentences
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A mounding shrub with a modest suckering habit, the plant produces deliciously fragrant pink or white blooms in summer against pristine foliage, followed by a showy crop of bright red hips in fall.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022
Pearce showed me many spicebush specimens that were browsed but are now suckering afresh.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2021
Most problematically, Vladimir’s and Estragon’s embraces, so necessary to the play’s emotional equilibrium, are about as warm here as octopi suckering up to opposite sides of a glass wall.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2021
Is Karl-Bertil plotting another crime, suckering in a bohemian liberal intent on performing her own broad-mindedness, or is he just a broken soul desperate for a kind word?
From Slate ● Dec. 30, 2020
Bono and I crawled along a row and put ourselves in the way of one man who stooped there, suckering plants.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
