Example Sentences

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Give this plant some room, and avoid disturbing the roots to reduce suckering.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2023

Sadly, disingenuous trolling is often far too successful at suckering people into engagement.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2023

Pearce showed me many spicebush specimens that were browsed but are now suckering afresh.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 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