He knew they were dangerous, that they would soon suck up all the air around her and leave her limp on the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Clara was so upset that she spent a week walking in her sleep and sucking her thumb. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the gales then, sucking into the cyclone so that it blew past him from behind, ripping at his clothes and hair like they were shredded flags caught in a storm. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have any wrapping paper, and he sucked at wrapping presents anyway. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He has learned to suck the marrow from lamb, to extract the bones from fish. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When the weather turns hot and the flowers dry up, the bees start sucking elderberry. It makes a purple honey. People will pay two dollars a jar for purple honey.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The missions here suck and I'm getting preached to death. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s only a matter of time till the rest of us are sucked in.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The two of us go around the house, sucking up all the cobwebs from the corners and checking under the furniture for more spiders. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In a playful manner, the way grandmothers do with babies, he was sucking the fingers of one of the women, whose laughter filled a tiny place over, his head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I see I inspire with usefulness, I think, trying to suck in breath, and all that I do not see is useless, void. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing could possibly suck worse than being a junior in high school, alone at the top of your class, and fourteen years old all at the same time. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He pauses, sucking on a Skittle, and Alex decides to ask. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He breathed in deeply and sucked his breath as it came out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind has been knocked out of me; I retch on the ground, trying to suck in enough air to answer. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I know it sucks for the people’s property, but getting away with it is a part of the thrill. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In sucking the blood it absorbs also the germs which are contained in it, and thus is infected. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes, panting, sucking in air like I really have been running. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This day is really sucking everything out of me, though. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a breath, and he stepped around, lifting me toward him with one arm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Strip off the bark, and the grayish inside of the plant is moist and sweet—you can suck it between your teeth and drink in the juice. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Celestine drove me, and we arrived around noon, just about when the sun was changing to the searing sun I have long imagined can suck the moisture from bone marrow. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Within a short while the parasite would attach to a man’s intestines and slowly suck the nutrients out of him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark gasped for breath, sucking in the sweet air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I suck in my gut and squeeze inside. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The wind was full in it and I felt the boat suck forward while I held as hard as I could to the two edges. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He heard it before he saw it—the loud hissing, like a furious creature sucking in an enormous breath of air. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Sohrab to think I sucked on my tassels. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I sucked it down even though the high caffeine content gave me serious anxiety and terrible diarrhea. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The new mother dozed while her tiny daughter nuzzled and sucked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My parents exchanged one of those looks I couldn’t understand, and he went back to bed while Mom stayed by my bed, stroking my hair as sleep reached up and sucked me under. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I know how much it sucks to lose her as a friend. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He sucked his burned fingers to draw out the fire. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s because I am too good for everything! You think this is what I want? This sucks. This sucks so hard, I can’t take it sometimes.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

With a stick, she wrote This sucks in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sweet Man came in crying, and Ginnie Sue picked him up and let him suck some mayonnaise off her finger. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a mouth...a gaping, shapeless hole, sucking the air with the sound of a death rattle. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Its eight cylinders fired, the carburetor sucking in vast quantities of fuel. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen anything like the way his hand races back and forth across the pad, the way his eyes seem to suck in every morsel of the models posing before him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This is what a face looks like when all the dreams get sucked out of it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As she sucked in a huge breath, her eyes snapped open and she blinked, looking around at the crowd surrounding her. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I think of the feasts at Elsinore, loud with laughter and the cracking of bones and sucking of marrow, with dogs growling and fighting over food thrown to the floor. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Yes, m’lord. I was scared I wouldn’t have milk enough for both, but the more they suck, the more I have. They’re strong.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She had really gross habits, like eating the green stuff in between her toes and sucking on her knuckles. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

One time he was so desperate, he sucked the coating off chocolate-covered raisins, even though he hated raisins. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

This week kinda sucked all the way through. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The blood stopped flowing and the air puffed out the hole and sucked it in regularly with a little bubbling noise. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked air in between my teeth, making that hissing noise that people make whenever they are in pain but don't want to yell. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I even had the urge to suck my thumb. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I suck in air, eyes tearing, trying to swallow the pain. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The whooshing was getting louder, and I felt afraid for the first time, afraid that we might all get sucked down and drown in the mud. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bit open the plastic wrapper of her icey and sucked the cool blue slush out of it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Rhythmically, without haste, it sucked down a floating sedge fly and sank back under water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment the noisy sucking of the donkey was the only answer to the familiar joke. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I suck in some coffee, skip to the last paragraph: the inevitable eclectic, the obligatory post-feminist, a however and a despite. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope that’ll teach you a lesson, you nasty little tease,” she said unfeelingly as he sucked his hand. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It sucked that Oliver's Story had made the cut, but Love Story hadn't. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Are you really surprised? I suck! I'm sorry, but I suck, and we've all known it. Now it's official. So let’s stop pretending.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charles had never sucked up to a video camera before. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Hazel felt the braids of her hair with her plump, pink fingers while Bill sucked in his cheeks and dealt the cards in a very serious way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I remember that Abuelo used to give me those gummy candies that look like orange slices, and I would suck all the sugar off before eating them,” I said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She turns back and hits the button on the wall, sucking out the golden light of Sagan’s sun and moons as it slides shut. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I put a seed in my mouth and sucked on it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I struggled to nod through the rush of guilt I felt about lying to him and the humiliation I felt about sucking so bad. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They sucked me into another place when my real place was too much. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Rumbling and hissing, eighty vibro-vacuum massage machines were simultaneously kneading and sucking the firm and sunburnt flesh of eighty superb female specimens. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. I’m fine, though. I mean, this stuff sucks, but I’ve been dealing with it since elementary school. I don’t let it get me down. Those guys have nothing better to do than be mean.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Like I’m waiting for something to suck out my blood,” I try to say but all that comes out is, “Waiting.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

There’s a footstep, a pause, then a crackling like the kind of static on the radio that my brother says comes from outer space, then another pulse, a gasp of air sucked in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Basically, like everything about Faerie, geases are awesome, and also they suck. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then I lost my grip and my avatar was sucked directly into the Black Tiger game’s monitor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He pushed down the memory of Cal’s story about Blue and sucked in a deep breath. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He raised his harmonica to his lips, cupped his hand around his blues harp, and sucked in hard to show his grandfather. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He was lounging on the front stoop, sucking on a cigarette. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I reached up to scratch my face and squished the wasp that had been sucking sugar off my cheek. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would’ve sucked if she heard something weird in my heart, or if my temperature or blood pressure was high, and then I couldn’t go home. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I suck it so that it tapers to a point, savoring each taste. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was like I sucked all the excitement out of the classroom with a gigantic vacuum hose. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“Young lady,” she says to a girl leaning against the wall with a boy sucking on her neck. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I bit my lip, sucked in my stomach, and did the same. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They became trapped in rush- hour traffic again, surrounded by half-asleep yuppies in suits who were sucking coffee from foam cups and listening to traffic reports and easy rock and roll. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, Mom, I’m sorry. They were making me so dopey, and I was falling asleep in class and then not sleeping at night and I’d just be up for hours and it sucked.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no doubt, my dear, most definitely,” she said, adjusting her flowered bonnet and sucking at her teeth. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I shook my head and tried to think, sucking the weak air in through my chapped lips. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop wobbles in, both hands planted on his cane, wheezing like he done sucked on a pile of ashes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I suck on my injured thumb, feeling odd. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The boy sucks on a lollipop, a reward for surviving a shot. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Fire sucks out...all the...air—If we don’t find a good place to hide...we’ll suffocate.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Now she was merely a shadow with the life sucked out of her. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, weirdly enough. He also sucks at French.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I suck in a long breath and prepare to hear the names of the winners. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, as a kind of ‘it sucks we got attacked, but at least there are desserts’ thing.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They just don’t like me there. My parents send me away whenever they get a chance. They want me to know there are places that don’t suck as much as Cowtown, USA.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Fern was seated on the floor in the corner of the kitchen with her infant between her knees, teaching it to suck from the bottle. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nailer was sucked through in a black torrent. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It sucked off boots and shoes and ruined the brake linings on cars and trucks; it built up crippling deposits under horse and cattle hooves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His next words, “And Naomi,” were sucked back into his own mouth as he gasped for air. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It sucks, but what am I supposed to do? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Doors sprang tightly shut, but the windows were broken by the heat and the wind blew and sucked upon the fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sucks that that was the last time I’ll ever dream. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Climbing along the blade of the summit ridge, sucking gas into my ragged lungs, I enjoyed a strange, unwarranted sense of calm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I look away and suck on my sleeve. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor would suck his teeth and narrow his eyes at Hassan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I had to admit, he wasn’t exactly sucking up to her. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Park touched her waist, she'd sucked in her stomach and pitched forward. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And whether the knowledge was being sucked into the kernel in Luna’s brain, or whether it was flying away entirely, Xan did not know. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Beatriz sucks her teeth and throws her hand up in the air. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mom couldn’t go to work anymore, and she got sucked into the darkness. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The air was cool and he sucked it in between his clenched teeth. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel sucked in breath in little pathetic gasps. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kote slowly removed his shirt, grimacing and sucking his breath through his teeth as the dried blood stuck and tugged against the wounds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thomas sucked in a deep breath, trying not to think about only being halfway done for the day. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He also made a strange yelling sound like nothing I had ever heard—like he sucked in air so fast it made a shrieking sound. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If I suck at homework when I have the internet and textbooks at my disposal, then I’m going to completely fail when it’s just me and the blank page. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The summer had been dry, so the plants sucked up all the moisture they could from the early November rains, and extra water sat in a thin layer on top of the soaked dirt. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Women sucked their bottom lips and put little red disks down in numbered squares. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no, as he sucked on that beer spout like it was mother’s milk, little trickles of beer spilled from the sides of his mouth, because he was smiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my cheek and chewed on the side of my lip. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The ground couldn’t be trusted: It kept giving way, tripping me into knee-deep bog holes that soaked my pants and sucked at my legs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His head slips under the water and he closes his eyes, forces himself to resist the urge to suck in a breath that would kill him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And it’s not even like I’m sucking up. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She sucks in this huge breath, and I think she's really going to do it, just scream bloody murder. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only tangible mood was as a swirling drain, sucking away any remnants of hope. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It would be like...like being sucked into a black hole and spaghettified. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A fissure opened in the stone floor of the workshop, and Minos and all his spirits were sucked into the void with a horrible wail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It sucks we don’t have any classes together. Maybe you can stop by the library after you eat lunch, even if it’s only for a few minutes.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It would be on his track now, seeking to draw near to him, to take his strength into itself, and suck up his life, and clothe itself in his flesh. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if she was thinking about me, and how much it sucked that I wasn’t with them on vacation. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You can bet he sucked blood. He hurt people in a big way. He had a cruel and brutal style.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I dip the clean rag into the sweet water, give it to her to suck on, and she goes back to sleep. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Faint voices broken by static came through. “.. . final score: New York Giants, twenty-four. Detroit Lions, seventeen . “Lions suck,” Jennifer said, shaking her head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She sucks them outside in to look like a starved person. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sucks at my feet, but at least the wet sand is firm. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We drive Slowly, warm air sucking Into the rolled-down windows Of our Chevy, the Sharpest one on the block. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gust of wind inflates the curtain, first blowing it into the room and then sucking it back against the screen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Needles sucked his teeth and went back to his yarn. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The teeth sucked up the light, and darkness closed around Tayo with an ambush of voices in English and Japanese. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh," said Bill, sucking the drumstick, "how should we know? We should not question. Our stay on earth is not for long. Let us rejoice and believe and give thanks." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The adrenaline is sucked from my body like a vacuum. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Willow seemed to be sucked back into her chair. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Sean sucked in his lips so as not to break out in hysterics. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Chronicler sucked in a breath and jerked the sword away as the man’s hand ran along the edge of the blade, drawing blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wilbur ran to her and she held the bottle for him while he sucked. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The only sound in the room is that of baby Hamlet sucking his fist. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He looked out across the lake and brought the egg to his mouth and closed his eyes and sucked and squeezed the egg at the same time and swallowed as fast as he could. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The docent giving the class a tour was elderly and thin and looked as if all the juice had been sucked out of him through a straw via his pursed mouth. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most of the guys on the team would have had a hard time sucking it up the way she had. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I sucked them in and gobbled them up like they were Mrs. V’s cherry cake. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He could smell wild flowers growing in the weeds and grass beside the road, and he heard the big bumblebees and the smaller bees sucking the blossoms. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Link whispered at my side, “This so big sucks.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it sucks when life moves along without you. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She sucked air through her teeth and bit on the knuckle of her thumb. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’m alive. Life doesn’t suck. Schools starts in a week.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Lead-gray water sucked quietly, stubborn and deliberate, at icy gray boulders. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no answer beyond the suck of the pole through the murk of the river bottom. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The goat had lain on its side, legs bound, its sides heaving up and down like a bellows, breath whistling through its nostrils as it sucked its last air. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly, my entire body was sucked out of the plane, and I heard—felt—the aircraft speed away. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But normally had been sucked away by stormy drawings and tears and tornadoes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He dropped to his knees and stayed there, his chest heaving with deep, sucking breaths. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Crab sucks...like, really sucks...but, oh man! As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Down there, hangin’ out with some girl named Tess,” Genie told her, sucking in air as Grandma proceeded to march them back to the house. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This totally sucked, for a lot of reasons. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The girl with the dolly leaned against Mrs. Rimas and sucked her thumb. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If this had happened in Flint I would have investigated to find out what it was, but that horrible sun had sucked all the curiosity out of me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This summer. I don’t want to go. I suck at soccer anyway.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I put my thumb on the mouth of the pipe, sucked air — blew out, and all this while the glass is getting colder duller orange blood red mud red black. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’m kind of bothered to be with Mackenzie right now, because she happens to be sucking on her favorite candy—a blue Ring Pop. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She suck the grits off the candles and start eating. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The harsh fluorescents sucked the color out of everything and made it look like an old black-and-white film. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He sucked all the blood out of her chest with a vacuum pump, and measured the volume. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Dimarion released the gun and Reed kicked it aside, where it was sucked up by the spiral of water and flung into the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The flames of the burning shelter rumbled like a freight train and sucked at the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It just sucks, and it sucks harder because it was so painfully close to being wonderful. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The light had faded and faded, sucking the colour out of the trees and bushes, until everything around them looked pale brown, like an old photograph. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He sucked her lower lip before he rolled off and fell asleep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I altered my avatar’s appearance so that I looked exactly like Meat Loaf did in the role, but my performance and lip-synching still kinda sucked. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas sucked in two huge breaths and leaned in once again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“She was very nice, okay? Last year, while you were gone. Things sucked and I’d had a few too many drinks.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I reach to the nearest wall and touch the tip of the quill to the darkness residing between two slats of wood, and something darker than ink sucks into the hollow of the quill. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I’m winning my case, but if I’m going to suck all the marrow out of this bone, I need to hear them say the words. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I saw the next link and sucked in my breath. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There's a cage for babies with a pile of sucked toys in it, but today it was empty. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I threw him a grin and he sucked his teeth and walked away. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

I hunched over, sucked my injured thumb, and limped on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Enrique sucks down ten beers on weeknights, often with friends in front of the house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Once Aunt Queen had found Gerald curled up behind the couch sucking his thumb. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I say, closing my eyes and sucking in a sharp breath as the Duchess uses a light touch to spread the salve over my back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He inhaled deeply, as if he was trying to suck the entire mountain into his nose. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In between gags and coughs, I sucked air in hard. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It only exists in connection with those whose habits are to seek association with men and domestic animals, to bite them and to suck their blood. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

So he watched as the mosquito patiently probed his hand with the cutting part of her proboscis, then sucked his blood for over a minute before flying off. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Dill’s mother sucked in her breath and rose from the recliner, holding her mid-back, taking a moment to straighten, and grunting with pain. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Guitar’s two sisters and baby brother sucked away at the bone-white and blood-red stick, but Guitar couldn’t. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alan Blunt and a dark, rather masculine woman sucking a peppermint were already sitting down. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even this warm tropic water was starting to suck the heat from him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘Man, being dead sucked. But that physician’s cure? That stuff is worse.' Festus clicked and clattered in Morse code. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Soon it would suck in the room and begin on the rest of the dormitory. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked the reed for a minute, put the horn together, then played it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I buy licorice whips, jelly beans, many-layered blackballs with the seed in the middle, packages of fizzy sherbet you suck up through a straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Any second, she might crumble and be sucked into the vacuum. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had Hassan hold the string and sucked the blood dry, blotted my finger against my jeans. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I feel him actively sucking the water from me, and I let him, until I can feel him swallow, then I let him go and lean back to catch my breath. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Most times he don’t even put the TV on, he just sucks on his beer and stares at the cobwebs on the ceiling. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean she put a pig up to her tits and let it suck?” asked Smiley. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He shook his head at the mess they had made and sucked his teeth in disgust. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Here and there, tendrils of its curling white churn seemed to rise up and peer about before collapsing again into the tidal flow like whitecaps sucked back into the surf. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wrapped one in a paper towel and brought it upstairs, sucking away the juice. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Bull finished his first beer a full second faster than Colonel Causey, stepped quickly aside for Reynolds, who had sucked down three large swallows before his opponent’s hand had touched glass. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I met a lotta vampires in my time, and their blood was always green. Been sucking me dry in their little temples.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And Stapleton escapes into the Grimpen Mire, which is part of the moor, and he dies because he is sucked into a bog. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After I turn it in, it occurs to me that the rhyme and the rhythm of my poem really, really suck. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

"Am I now going to be less sensitive," he thought, already sucking greedily on the cheese, which had strongly attracted him right away, more than all the other foods. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like if you sat on the seat you might end up getting sucked down under Ohio somewhere! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They obeyed her, even Mama, though Lyddie could hear her sucking in her breath. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you to stay here. It sucks here. I’d much rather you went to California.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He burst through the alley door, sucked his lungs full of fresh air, and slammed it shut behind him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, huddled inside the ragged quilt, she was sucked down, in spite of herself, into a black whirlpool of slumber, where nightmare phantoms whirled with her, nearer and nearer, toward some unknown horror. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet saw a little old woman, rocking her body back and forth, sitting on her heels, in front of the fire, sucking on a clay pipe as she grieved about her boys. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stares up at Fabian as he sucks on a chicken bone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, that sucks, Ileana. I don’t want to be a good boy.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His face looked like one of those fallen Martian cities, caved in, sucked dry, almost dead. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, to inhale slowly felt like sucking in shards of glass. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It sucked the warmth from my hand, my arm, my blood. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

But it’s not a cancer book, because cancer books suck. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You want to go to the woods to live deliberately. You want to suck the marrow out of life.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Amarante cackled and sucked off a swallow for himself, then patted his gut. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wet quick sand sucked me down and I was almost to my waist before I squirmed loose. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memories stopped, and the air seemed to be sucked right from the room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her body made an awful sucking sound as it broke the surface. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he absolutely hates it when musicians suck up to him. Two span ago he threw someone out of here for trying to tip him.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Someone should tell her personal copilot that His landings suck,” Miss Michigan muttered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I know it must suck for Abby living so far away, but I kind of love our sleepovers. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” Bloom said sweetly to the little waif sucking her thumb in the doorway, “it’s okay now.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I come and drag each suck up to the track, so the charette-man can pick it up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using it as a springboard, he bounced nimbly on to the ramparts and vanished, sucking fiercely at his paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The needle plunges into my belly button and sucks something out. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

With great, sucking heaves of breath, he tried to get oxygen in his lungs, but he knew he couldn’t last much longer. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I suck in my breath and hold it in my chest until the queen speaks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then they both dipped in a finger and sucked the grease off—delicious! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She stiffens and sucks in a quick breath. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could smell the foaming flood water, stagnant and ripe with the rotting debris it carried past each village, sucking up their sewage, their waste, the dead animals. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leaning far over, Stephanie sucked his limp nub into her smoky mouth . . . just as another snap! and death struggle took place in the nearby kitchen. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the ship goes under it will suck us down with it.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We all sucked them down hungrily, and Luis pulled down three more. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can always come back. If it sucks.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Straining for a new disguise of servant and simpleton, I sucked on my fist and stared about vacantly. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A draft, created by the open door, sucked the curtains into the gap of the open window. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Chess sucked in the ashy air, and it smelled different now that he viewed it as belonging to the other world. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They broke apart, and several of the girls slipped behind the curtains as if being sucked from the plane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She pulled off the bandaging and sucked in her breath. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Which also sucked, because the more he won, the more he wanted to play. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sucked in a breath and smothered a whimper. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Fly started sucking on sweet things so Hummingbird had to tell him to wait: “Wait until we see our mother.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They threw themselves on their backs and caught their breath, looking up at the mist-covered mountains gleaming white in the moonlight, and sucked on handfuls of snow to ease their thirst. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers along the bag’s inside, and Ivan sucked in a breath. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I suck my sleeve and walk fast to try to get away from it even though it follows me everywhere. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t suck on your hair,” Isa said, followed by, “That was very sweet of you.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have anything approximating his experience, but she told him about groping around in the back seats of enormous convertibles with crew-cut boys in tuxedos who sucked on her big breasts like newborn babies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheltered darkling water seems to suck up light, but I’ve seen that before. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck my breath in through my teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She couldn't sit up or suck in or keep any secrets. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The noise got louder, more men jumped up, someone sucked on a mouth organ, someone else blew on a tissue- papered comb. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It whirled around my head, threatening to suck the very life out of my lungs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sucked my teeth the way Jay did when he didn’t believe something. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ma Charles coughed or rolled her eyes or made a sound that was as good as teeth sucking. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Sam was standing by the pony, sucking his teeth, and staring moodily into the gloom where the river roared stonily below; his desire for adventure was at its lowest ebb. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The pages sucked it up as greedily as if they were welcoming their own end. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kat takes charge of the sucking pigs, the carrots, the peas, and the cauliflower. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined passing my armlessness on to other people, their fully grown arms shrinking and shriveling and getting sucked up into their shoulders with a terrible slurping sound after I touched them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If the squirrel were in a comic, she thought, what words would have appeared in the space over his head when he was sucked into the vacuum cleaner? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

The Doctorita is always yelling at me about his thumb sucking, a habit which she insists could mess up his teeth for life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sailing fast into the face of a cold wind that all but sucked his breath from him; but he liked it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re always sorry,” her mom added bitterly, before sucking on her cigarette. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jamie giggled, “Yeah, I guess homesickness is like sucking your thumb. It’s what happens when you’re not very sure of yourself.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he came out, a towel around his neck, sucking on a bottle of water, I flung myself into his arms and kissed him openmouthed and sloppy in front of everyone. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her lips down over the puncture and sucked hard and spat and sucked again while Coyotito screamed. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You squeeze the head between your teeth and suck out the inside. It's marvellous. You and I will do all those things this summer, my darling," she said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When she zips it up, I don’t even have to suck in my gut. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And then I type, Obligatory family meals suck, especially when meat and denial are involved. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her mouth twisted up like she had sucked on the lemon she’d put in my water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my breath and followed his gaze. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Father sucked in his belly, sucked back the words that would have come next. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lorena’s eyes open wide, and she sucks in a big gulp of air. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We both agree that calculus can suck it. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The woods pressed close around them, and the steady pattering of rain on leaves was accompanied by the small sucking sounds their horses made as their hooves pulled free of the mud. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Behind them the kids crunched on Frito Lays and noisily sucked pop up through peppermint straws. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children began to get excited, sucking in their breath and covering their faces partly with their hands. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Pain sucking so hard at their spirits that they could not imagine a tomorrow. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got up out of bed and unwrapped a Littmus Lozenge and sucked on it hard and thought about my mama leaving me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

These were the ingredients in his cake, and they sucked! Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“The weather doesn’t suck your blood,” I say, expecting her to have a comeback, but she just shakes her head. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He pushed the door in, then was stone-still, sucking his breath in softly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were all sucked under the water even as they stretched out their arms for help. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She talked to them, running with the lambs, letting them suck on her fingers. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I haven’t yet considered what else might be sucked, or under what circumstances. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fleeting clear spells of lucidity, when Amaranta would bring him his meals he would tell her what bothered him most and would accept her sucking glasses and mustard plasters in a docile way. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You are an irredeemable dork. Fortunately for our relationship’s continued viability, you suck at acting like a dumb bro.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Then I told them I was leaving because the party sucked. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Fabian continues to suck on the chicken bone. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice stood by, sucking in her own small chest, hoping to help. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the younger boys lay on his back, sucking his thumb. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Howard has scheduled me to have Friday off one week, Tuesday and Wednesday the next, and I would have to do some serious sucking up to arrive at a more stable and congenial schedule. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced myself to eat slowly, to chew, to suck out the blood. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fie looked at me for a long time and sucked air in through his nose. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stuffed everything in my bag, slung the strap over my shoulder, and sucked in a huge breath. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and allowed the leather to suck him into sleep. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I stop where the water crashes onto the sand, foaming up around my toes, trying to suck me back out again. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Bigger sighed, shrugged his shoulders and sucked his lungs full of smoke. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road was muddy and our boots made wet, sucking noises. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday maybe I’d figure out how to suck it down evenly. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If you were a wealthy Jew, you were a vampire, a conniving evil sucking the blood of the common people. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Getting cool all of a sudden like this made me bug my eyes and suck in my breath. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zola pinches her lips as if she has sucked on a peppercorn. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Really sucks since we knew each other before Hudson transferred to our school at the beginning of junior year. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I dropped to my knees, comforted by the solidity of the floor even though I couldn’t see it, expecting at any moment to be sucked into the gelid void, frozen and dead. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He lifted it to the level of the door and the draft sucked it from his fingers; he watched it fly into the red trembling heat, smoke, turn black, blaze, then vanish. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I suck in my breath and fear, releasing them as I prepare to walk toward the stage. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The night air sucks the warmth from our bones as we try to sleep in tents made from the ship’s sails. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They suck up all the resources, leaving nothing for the organisms that were there first. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I watched a small swell crumble near the shore and roll up the sand over clumps of seaweed and rocks and shells, then suck back into itself. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The hot black mastic sucking at their shoes and stretching in thin bands as they stepped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

From wrecks far out on Sow and Pigs Reef, in currents that crossed and tangled to suck the drowning sailors under and spin the surfboats like tops. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

And men irrigated, but the wind sucked up the water almost before it could seep into the ground. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You get a full display of the puckering and the sucking. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Nell climbed in my lap and fell asleep sucking her thumb. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stops moving immediately, sucking its head and foot inside its shell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His hair was dry, though, any moisture sucked away by the searing air. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ximena made a face, like she was sucking on a lemon. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was even sucking up to a hologram. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There was even a machine for sucking the crumbs and dirt from the floors. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We descend the steps and are sucked into what becomes an indistinguishable round of dinners, ceremonies, and train rides. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My legs sink into the mire, and my feet make sucking noises as I pull them free. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I shuddered to think of that dose of God’s Creation going down, sucking her dry from the inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman sucked in her lower lip and swallowed a smile before she said, “See, Bud, he can’t help himself. But he really doesn’t mean anything, do you, Poppa?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my breath, unable to even imagine that. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Actually, it was more like a crazed belly-flop, and all the air was sucked out of me as I hit the water at a funny angle. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a breath of air and a pint of river as his head went back down. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, “Yes, ma’am,” but all I could do was shake my head up and down and keep sucking the looseness back up into my nose. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

My arms were sucked in up to my elbows as I tried to find my balance. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweet Man, the youngest, crawled along the living room floor, sucking on a fat dill pickle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched, the entire sea around her was sucked into the void—sharks, schools of fish, a giant squid. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sucked in a breath, felt it cold in her chest. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The big car was obedient under her one-hand driving, and she pulled on her Lucky Strike so hard that her cheeks were sucked in to make valleys in her face. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his fingers trail down my chest and across my stomach, I suck in. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For a moment he wished it was just another day, get up, out to the park, suck in the cool October air, and listen to his sneakers crackling over the fallen yellow leaves. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I see Pattie suck in her breath and cross her arms in a way meant to show firm resolve. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They constituted the sort of criminals, petty and otherwise, who sucked the life out of urban areas. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Kira’s sandals, first one and then the other, were sucked from her feet and disappeared. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It would definitely make my parents happy. My dad is ready to rearrange his travel schedule to be at the games. If I have to tell him I’m not on the team...that’ll suck.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He made soft, sucking sounds like water draining from a basin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wiping the snot and tears away, he closed his eyes and sucked in a deep breath, let it out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every Glader in the room sucked in a breath of surprise. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Citra took guilty pleasure at the fact that the girl who had been sucking up to Rowan was one of those ejected. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I sucked a few breaths of air in, then put my right leg straight up against the wall and pushed off to get a bit of extra speed. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

You could stretch it, bend it, hold it up to the light, and even suck on it if it wasn’t too old. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomás sucks his thumb and gives me dagger looks in agreement. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With curious eyes they watched, sucking lollipops Fadi had given them to gain their cooperation. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Bod watched as the man stopped in the air at the zenith of his spring, and hung there for a moment, before he was sucked through the ghoul-gate, down and down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a deep breath and began emptying the shelves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She just feels so alone, like she’s lived her whole life in “quiet desperation” as Thoreau would say, instead of sucking the marrow out of life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It sucks you inside out and places you in a space where touch and taste and sound and sight all turn to ash. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And then there was a terrible roar, and he was sucked right off his feet. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was gasping for air, sucking in tiny fleets of flying bugs. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s calmer now, air sucks evenly into her lungs, we lean forward, tensed, the muscles in our backs and bellies hurt from the strain. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let it be quick now, was all I could hope as the flow of blood from my head sucked my consciousness away with it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He held an unfiltered cigarette with square-tipped fingers, sucking the tip while keeping it cupped in his fist—like a convict, thought Shadow, or a soldier. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They go through the Changing—which sucks—but after that, they’re healed.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We watch the TV in silence, our knees touching, and the humidity rising, sucking the about of the room. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Him: Light pollution makes naked eye stargazing suck here, but I can see all eight stars in the Big Dipper right now, if you include Alcor. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was just Will again, the boy she loved, which sucked. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Whenever Stormy wasn’t watching, we would cut off a piece of prickly pear cactus, scrape off the spines, and suck out the juice. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingers brush my elbow, and I suck in a breath. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

After all, zero multiplied by anything is zero; it sucks everything into itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even though he was still sucking in short, desperate breaths, a little grin came on his face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But the cub stayed at the back of the cave, sucking the milk only when the shirt came close to her. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her head broke the water, and she sucked in a loud, desperate breath that caught a few water droplets and sent her coughing and choking. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t expect this promotion would suck up so much of my time.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, let’s see. I dreamed the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., knelt down and painted my toenails with the spit from his mouth, and every nail was red like he’d been sucking on red hots.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would sort of suck, having all those people around your house all day. Like, people who aren’t in your family just, like, constandy in your space.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But here she was, dewy and fresh, bespectacled, olive-skinned, almost childlike, smiling shyly at him and sucking a milkshake through a straw. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It sucked having only one teacher I felt close enough to talk to like this. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I had to leave. As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He goes to the closet and pulls out the big cardboard box with the pinnies and I start sucking both sleeves. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say Mr. Pajolli’s sucking up to her so that maybe her company will donate lots of money to the school. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It just sucks that she’d want to air all that gossip in front of the entire school,” Maddie said, shaking her head. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he pressed the metallic bar to his lips and started blowing and sucking, moving the harmonica back and forth like a cartoon character eating corn on the cob. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But I suck it up like a Jackson’s supposed to and look her dead in her eyes. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It just sucks. Was it because my skin is dark? I love my skin! I love how I stand out in a crowd of paler people! It makes me feel just really...really...proud!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I take my shower and think about how much life would suck if hot water didn’t come out of the showerhead when you wanted. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He sucked contentedly, refusing all other food, and lived off his mother’s milk until he was nearly two years old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Too much work sucking through that hard candy shell to get to the Tootsie Roll.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sit up now...She held a little white enamel teapot and let them suck the water from its spout while she cradled their filthy heads against her apron, like giant babies. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A dragon that will suck you into the fog so hard, you’ll never get out. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the terminal shock and convulsions came over her, they inserted a needle into her upper abdomen and sucked out a quantity of liver. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walked up close enough to see what it was, I sucked in a mouthful of air and stopped. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra went on sucking and munching at her toast, unaware of anything wrong. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They sat solemnly holding their greasy batons and alternately inspecting and sucking them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Flora, “before that. He was vacuumed. You know, sucked up in a vacuum cleaner.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Sis sucks her teeth and looks at me with disdain. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was die heat, maybe just like it had sucked all the energy out of me it had sucked all the meanness and fun out of Byron. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him that everything sucks, and he apologizes for it, but does nothing to make things less suckful. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

While it had been a long time since I’d seen her sitting on her mother’s lap sucking her breast, I assumed that becoming señorita had rid her of that habit. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And nobody deserves to feel like I felt. But I know it sucks, what’s happening with your dad. I know what it’s like to lose someone. Just...don’t do it to anyone else, okay?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Applied to seeds, either by soaking or in a coating combined with carbon, they extend their effects into the following plant generation and produce seedlings poisonous to aphids and other sucking insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When the flutes stop, the sliver of silence is sucked away by loud applause and more shuffling. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It sucks, but I figured it out too late. I think I’m more of a moonlight kind of girl.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Society commonly refers to it as the awkward phase, but I've always preferred to call it the "everything totally sucks and I hate my life" phase. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She clutched at a splintered femur and sucked it greedily. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It just sucks,” Simon says, staring straight ahead. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The way she’s looking at me now makes me feel like my soul is getting sucked into her dark eyes, black hole-style. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They pretended to breathe in and out while all the time I knew the air had been sucked away in a monstrous inhalation from God Himself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how hard he fought, the warmth gave way under him, sucking him deeper. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It sucks, the way that her power is at times not enough and too much at others. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Unless it’s about spearing fish, because apparently I suck at that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“No. But he’s got it. And hospitals suck. And treatments suck. And friends watching you be sick sucks. And watching your parents cry sucks. So maybe he just wants to climb a mountain and disappear.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As he was sucking the meat off the bones of his quail, he asked Illyrio about the morning’s summons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His right eye turned bright white as he puffed out his narrow chest, sucked in a mouthful of air, and blew a stream of cottonseed-filled air at the door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But then he heard the soft pad of paws and the sounds of sucking and—he could hardly believe it—felt a rough little tongue licking the milk off his knuckles. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was nothing like Odenigbo’s bites and sucks, nothing like those shocks of pleasure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hanako took out a bag of crackers and sucked on one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I took his toothbrush from the sink counter and sucked on the bristles, trying to find the taste of him, but there was only the flavor of watery mint toothpaste. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The rez basketball fans were chanting, “Arnold sucks! Arnold sucks! Arnold sucks!” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She went back to eating earth and the whitewash on the walls with the avidity of previous days, and she sucked her finger with so much anxiety that she developed a callus on her thumb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And that’s exactly what Jay, already ankle deep in the sucking mud, was doing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But there she was, smiling and proudly baring her body, as if she’d just had the operation and didn’t realize they’d sucked out way too much fat. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and stopped the curious baby from sucking on my shoe string. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t do to let you go in them trainers—mud’ll suck ‘em right off!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She blows an enormous bubble and then sucks it back in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They swallowed, tasted their tongues, sucked their lips, and there was a far-away look in their eyes. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed a piece of skin at the edge of the wound and pulled it up in a strip, sucking in a pained breath as he did. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a surprised breath when I saw what he was holding. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He sucked in his breath and tried again, and then he bolted up, overturning his chair, turned his back to me, and started to walk out. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed, and sounding genuinely sympathetic, said, “That sucks. I’m sorry.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Wish you were actually here, except it sucks so bad you'd hate it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I bolted upright, suddenly feeling like I’d been sucked into a Twilight Zone episode. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her tentacle arms were a part of the sucking, obsequious water. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told us how one person sucked out the ink from her skin because the doctor who gave her the tattoo quietly told her to. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thursday is for polishing floors and sucking rugs, minding the antique ones with a hand broom so they don’t thread. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There was a faint sound as if some giant animal were sucking the air in and in through its teeth. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most just stood there and screamed, and screamed, and screamed, the rain falling all around, the mud sucking their feet down firmly in place. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I sucked my tongue to unfreeze it, tasting the gritty dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That photo sucks even more,” Hudson says, after another attempt. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The water pulled him, trying to suck him back into the flood. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

An unexpected swell knocked him off his feet and even as he put out his hands to break his fall the black lake sucked him down. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

It felt like my stomach had turned into a vacuum cleaner to suck my chest into it. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

You know your break sucks when the most brag part of the night is you coming up with the word “caster.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Colonel looked over at me and said, “Do you suck at this game?” and then, without turning back to the screen, shot my skater in the balls with a blue paint blast. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I sucked down more air, felt my breathing slow. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She was simply gone, sucked under in the Teeth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the very least he didn’t want to be sucked into such a decision without having his own opinion heard. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the bog sucking me down with it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Her face is all serious, her cheeks sucked in. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Without distance, Rishi knew the inexorable love for his art, for creation, would suck him in and never let go. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Bernard shakes his hand and starts sucking a finger. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Come on, man," I said, sucking my teeth. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

But a healthy pup would have been wiggling and sucking. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It does. It sucks when parents aren’t fully engaged in your stuff, even if it’s so much better than hovering parents.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then Roy remembered the heat and the humidity, which on some days seemed to suck the very meat out of his lungs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet picked it up in his fingers, too hot, sucked the ends of his fingers: delicious. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From these emerge her children — strange, bristled larvae called aphis lions, which live by preying on aphids, scales, or mites, which they capture and suck dry of fluid. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A major stood in front of them sucking on his pipe stem, with his right elbow tucked into his left palm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To say that I’m grumpy after sucking at the Invisible Bridge would be an understatement. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Malcolm’s little finger was not very clean, so he sucked it hard first and then held it in the saucepan till the milk was warm enough, and tipped it all into the bottle. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pick up Raymond, who has green finger paint on his shirt, and Leda, who sucks her pink pacifier. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A mouth descended an one eye, licking, sucking, biting ... A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The suck of air was audible and popped low in my eardrum like a lid being lifted. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Good on ya, mates,” I exclaimed, borrowing a phrase from the antipodal contingent, impressed that my cohorts had sucked it up and resolved to push on. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She had always thought the words a joke among the weavers, but here was this strange-smelling foreigner sucking Lyddie’s shuttles, leaving her spittle all over the thread hole. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He threw away the mango seed, sucked so clean of the orange pulp that it was white. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a mouthful of thick air and held it in while I lay on the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It must suck to get to thirty thousand feet and realize that your pilot is a control freak nutjob. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The intake of June’s breath nearly sucked the air from the room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things suck right now, and I just need to be able to think without my head feeling like it’s going to explode.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’m really trying to make this summer not suck. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Once he had finished exhaling, he sucked in a short breath and whispered, “My parents taught us that a fool’s true duty isn’t to the tsar. It’s to the people of Kievan Rus’. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Its hairless tail vanished like a spaghetti noodle sucked into a mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A hot yellow flame jumped into life, and I watched her suck it up into the cigarette. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He kept his eyes on me while she sucked his lips. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

But like a vacuum, he sucked it all away. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The gel’s deeper here, four to six inches, and makes a sucking sound each time you pick up your foot, but it still covers our tracks. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Harry sat stunned for a moment at the idea of someone having their soul sucked out through their mouth. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He staggered to his feet and sucked the burned air into his flattened lungs until his head cleared. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d pass for Mom after she sucked from a helium-filled balloon, but I didn’t think of that excuse in time. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I live in a world of suck,” I announced to no one. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Lord Hoster sucked at the thick white potion as eager as a babe at the breast, and Catelyn could see peace settle over him once more. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And then the disaster happened and orchids started growing, sucking up the processed chemicals from moss, and just like that: blue orchid. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What he saw made him suck his breath in; Mrs. Dalton in flowing white clothes was standing stone-still in the middle of the kitchen floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looks my way again, still sucking his teeth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

My mom sucked her teeth because that would be such an annoying thing to do. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I could feel the steel in his arms as the water tried to suck us away. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, slowly, while the cub sucked the milk from his chin, Neel wrapped his arms around the tiny body. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

—Eating spaghetti at your house on Saturday night and having “worm-slurping” contests to see who could suck the longest piece of spaghetti. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He brought a bruised knuckle to his lips and began to suck on it, pacing the short length of the room. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They sucked up like a vacuum through the hole that was made at the rectum. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, things pretty much suck right about now. The sun disappeared and the sky’s gone gray, they didn’t send us the weekly supplies—looks like things are going to end one way or another.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The icy water of the lake beneath them seemed to suck warmth and energy out of them more quickly than they could produce it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Or ‘Great swing, Pablito!’ even if the kid sucked and missed by a mile. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The tide sucked at the sand beneath their toes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boats rolled and pitched in the violent, sucking backwash from the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She was going to be sucked under the wheels. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But being passed over for the band still sucks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, plenty a times. And it never stops sucking.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be sucked down with it, away from the guards and the humiliation. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

You sucked the sherbet up through the straw and when it was finished you ate the liquorice. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sucks me in again, but this time I don’t mind. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Would Maniac be sucked into that black hole like so much lint into a vacuum cleaner? Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment she arrived she had been sitting in the rocker, sucking her finger and observing everyone with her large, startled eyes without giving any sign of understanding what they were asking her. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She stands there shamelessly sucking her own tit as the men wave their hats, pump their fists, and scream like animals. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I lit the end and sucked a grateful drag. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As you enter the tunnel, the wind gets sucked away, and you squint from the lights overhead. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, girl. I know I sucked! It’s not that easy up there.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wig shops, no fish markets, no Mr. Charles, which had to suck. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He sat on the cold concrete and sucked in another soothing breath. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The paper swirled madly for a moment before being sucked out the window into darkness, disappearing before Nailer could even try to grab it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lionel, the busboy, entertains us for the rest of the shift by standing just behind Stu’s back and sucking deliriously on an imaginary joint or maybe a pipe. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m still too short for those rides. It sucks to be short. Remember that.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, I hope it sucks,” Dimple said, more loudly than she’d intended. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Neighbor women do still come calling to offer little gifts, a hand of bananas or an orange for the baby to suck on and make us laugh at his puckery face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just the part where I passed out and dropped you. It was sheer stupidity. I forgot to hold my breath and sucked down some bad air. Were you hurt anywhere else?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was nice and gave me a piece of orange to suck on. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Air rushing beneath the train is sucking his legs under the car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was partway across the quad, and I peeked back—four guys from the hockey team had surrounded him at the foot of the stairs behind David Hall, sucking him into their swarm. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say ‘sucks’—it’s not nice,” she tells me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She sucks in a huge sniffle that sounds super nasty. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She was sucking her thumb and keening to herself. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the drumsticks were sucked clean and lay brittle upon the plates, the captain leaned back and exhaled his deep satisfaction. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kind of like what Cinderella would wear if she were a six-year-old sucking a rocket pop by the neighborhood pool. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When secretions built up and clogged the tube down the Sherpa’s throat, Hunt would suck the tube clear with her mouth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the young men sucked lazily on briar pipes, and the sweet smell of Prince Albert tobacco smoke drifted among them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then he glanced down at his forefinger, crawling with flies, and popped it in his mouth and sucked the buzzing insects off. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I did. They told me that if it were true, a teacher would intervene. It just sucks.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They bought an electric refrigerator on the installment plan, and Antonapoulos would suck the cubes of ice constantly and even let a few of them melt in bed with him as he slept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The head of the creature faced the user, who sucked in tobacco smoke from its mouth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unless you’re holding your breath, the air gets sucked right out of your lungs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She sucked a gulp of air into her lungs and let it out with force. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We agree that swing sucks and maybe would have discovered a few more points of convergence, only I’m on what a certain Key West rock jock likes to call “a mission from God.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We placed Gram’s head on my lap and her feet on the boy’s lap, and all the while the boy continued sucking and spitting. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And then, after a dozen or so times, it was sucked into the dark recess, and when it came out, it was torn and lifeless. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi reached out and casually tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear, and without meaning to, she sucked in a breath and leaned in to his touch. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Esther repeated the name as if she were sucking on a candy. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I suck on my sleeve some more even though I know Mrs. Brook doesn’t like me to. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Neel extended the new lure, tied to the end of the sundari stick, the cub sucked hungrily at the milk-drenched shirt. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to suck the laughter back and hold on to it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I still loved the feeling of flying that I got from gymnastics—that hadn’t changed—but Aimee will tell you that for almost two years my attitude sucked. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The sludgy lump sucks down the hole with remnant stasis gel. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

An hour later, I go back in the bedroom to suck the rugs. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Angel, almost hysterical, was sucking in huge gulps of the smoke-filled air. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fought the sucking mud and crawled out like some prehistoric creature from an ancient lagoon just as Mami and my sisters and brothers came running. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ernie’s face got so tight it looked like it was going to suck into itself. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t take your sweet time in the bathroom, sucking up all the water from the shower and the sink like you always do. Sometimes I don’t understand you, girl.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He popped the bottle into her mouth, and she began sucking greedily. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked in air, blinked more, then pushed against the wall, trying to get his legs to work. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I had no alternative but to come to the conclusion that horse riding sucked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Better you be an orphan, your family thinks. Better crazy Mama Ya-Ya raises you,” she says, sucking air through her false teeth. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sales have sucked—she didn’t get anywhere near the goal she set. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped in the kitchen to suck down some OJ, and then continued my silent journey to the basement. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started pacing back and forth, her face shining with sweat as the woodstove clanged and seemed to suck most of the oxygen from the room. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My communication board, even with everything Mrs. V has added to it—well, it sorta sucks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“No, man, what he sucking his tongue at me fo ?” Peewee’s eyes narrowed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the blades sucking me in and spitting me out the other side, and shudder a little. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

After a while, we’re tired out, and he’s sitting in the middle of the floor sucking on banana skins with banana smeared all over his face, like a messy gorilla. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita sucked in some air for courage and went out past the bed to the open door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I'm half Asian, a girl, and I believe in aliens. Pretty much every lifetime before mine would have sucked for me.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The boy sucks his teeth, but his friend grabs his arm, holding him back. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But in mid-June, 1906, the deep yawning hole that would swallow up Granny looked horrible, like it could suck me down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah I do! I got a fifty--four on my last test. I suck at science!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As it gnawed, hideous growling, crunching, sucking noises came from it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her sucking her lips in anticipation. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cut myself on your corsage,” Mario said, sucking on the side of his index finger. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I used to just put a whole bunch of them in my mouth at the same time, suck all the salt off, then spit them all out machine-gun-style. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was laughing at some joke the teacher hadn’t heard, Jeffrey was screaming as the needle sucked the bone marrow out of him. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You played a first half that sucked so bad, I just wanted to make you run laps all season,” Luma told them afterward. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Naw. Grades suck. Anyway, I only like to read the stuff I want to read. Not what a professor wants me to read.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The boy sucked in his breath, squinting in expectation of the blow, his back pressing against the rough bricks until their edges dug into his flesh. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Why does everyone remind me how much I sucked as a kid? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, yes. But it’s not that. I got stung by a bee on my palm while we were playing. Your dad grabbed my hand and sucked the venom out.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me too! Everyone always thinks I’m white. It sucks,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“You know,” I said, as I fiddled with the knobs, “I kind of like that you suck at something.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want the house, the sickness, to suck him in, too. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He sucked on his pipe, staring out at a row of purple flowers. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sucked in a sharp breath between her teeth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He found a fresh skin of wine instead and sucked at it as if it were a woman’s breast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He sucks in air, and his cheeks hollow like a skeleton. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m just sick of the question. I mean, I’m vegetarian because I think it’s wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel scampered over to the edge of the ice just as Jack’s head burst through the water, eyes popping, his breath sucking in the sky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Alice took two, one for herself and one for Lyra, who after waving it around doubtfully found her mouth and began to suck with immense pleasure. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the draff, this time a long low sucking of air that grew gradually to a drone, then a roar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tyspn had somehow given us just enough juice to keep the ship from being sucked in. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sorry your parents are splitting up, bro, but this really sucks. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth wide and sucked in as much air as I could, but it didn’t seem to be enough. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She starts sucking the end of one of her braids. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I knew Joey and I were both helplessly being sucked into a black hole of Joey Cosentino’s niceness. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She sucked in her stomach and pulled the fabric as far as possible, but the teeth of the zipper would not join. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hears the sparking of his lighter, the suck and flare of tobacco as his cigarette ignites. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’s no longer sucking his teeth or shouting about how he did nothing, the way he did when the handcuffs first went on, even though Malcolm and Aimee urged him to shut up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“A big grey one. She has a web across the top of Wilbur’s doorway. She catches flies and sucks their blood. Wilbur adores her.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He lay on the ground, sucking in air noisily, red-faced and sobbing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He could smell the baby shampoo in its hair, and something small and rubbery—a toy, he thought, and then, no, something to suck—that the child had been carrying. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The mmplicntcH system of draughts sucked the smoke down the chimney. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The songs vary from jazz standards to boy band covers, but all the performers have one thing in common: they sort of suck. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I opened my mouth, let his finger slide in, sucking it clean. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arm felt good linked with mine, and it sucked when she pulled away. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“No picking your nose. No sucking your thumb. No speaking unless spoken to.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Little Sam stood watching them, sucking his paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then he would bite a tiny hole in one end of the fruit and suck it until the seed wobbled alone inside the skin, like a person in oversize clothing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We each suck out the insides of an egg, eat a rabbit leg and some berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He sucks in a breath and bites off the end of that sentence. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a long time, Laila lay on the floor, sucking air through her teeth, legs parted. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He sucked in his breath and let it out in a long, wheezy cry. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the heart of my confusion was a kind of fear, because as much as I hadn’t chosen to be involved, I was getting sucked in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They lived in marshes and stagnant pools, sucked blood from man and horse alike, and laid their eggs in the dead and dying. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Finally I realized that some of the old people were sucking at the insides of their cheeks and making these weird smacking noises. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Probably that I suck at acting, I think, but I don't say it aloud. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sea slapped and sucked at the pilings, and fishing-boats jogged at their moorings, and out at the end of the long pier burned a lamp. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It sucked being a target all the time. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Bigger had the queer feeling that his own exhaustion formed a hair-line upon which his feelings were poised, and that the man’s driving frenzy would suck him into its hot whirlpool. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He talks a lot, which I’m fine with, and he’s not good at maintaining eye contact, which sucks because I want to stare at his electric blue eyes. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Their picture had been in the Logan County Gazette a bunch of times, and Sheed always looked like he was trying to suck broccoli from his teeth. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my breath until my lungs felt like twin dirigibles inside my ribs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She just sucked her teeth a little and made out like what I said was dumb. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little hole was slightly enlarged and its edges whitened from the sucking, but the red swelling extended farther around it in a hard lymphatic mound. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had not sucked the ink out, she would have been sent to the gas chamber the next day, because her number was called. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sekai stirred in her bed—a beer crate donated by Mr. Thirsty—and made sucking noises. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the noses of all the witches in that room went up in the air, and all the nostrils began to suck and sniff. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

After class, Nam and English busted out before I could catch up with them, and I was sure it was going to be a long day—and practice was going to suck. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We took the three slippery mangoes, taking weak bites, sucking on them like little babies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It sorta sucks to watch a baby do what you wish you could do. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When he was finished he sucked his fingers noisily, and threw the bones to his ugly spotted dog. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the air in the tube cooled and contracted, it sucked water up. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They are not sucking the air out of his lungs. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

With ludicrous care he embraced the rock, pressing himself to it above the sucking sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But you said...” is all I can get out before my voice gets sucked back in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My palms start biting at me, and my mouth feels like I sucked on cotton balls. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

With a slight splash, Matthew began scooping quartered slices of peaches into his mouth with such a zealous sucking and slurping that even his father paused to witness the divertissement. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stand guard,” I tell Jaimito, who is staring at a bee and sucking on his thumb. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude, that sounds way too hard. You know I suck at science.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I suck the dirt off and except for a few spots where I sucked too hard and thinned him, I think it worked out pretty good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I've no appetite, but I suck on a rabbit bone just to give my mouth something to do. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Moss sucked in air, deep, and he let it out in one slow exhale. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well I’m glad for you, then. It sucks being alone. Believe me, I know. Let’s try this store,” I said, and pointed to the supermarket. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rain had turned half the compound yard to ankle-deep puddles and the rest to sucking mud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He gulped and sucked, and sucked and gulped, making swishing and swooshing noises, anxious to get everything at once. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He gulped for air, gasped, and sucked but somehow he could not get enough. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"If the seal on the bridge doesn't hold, we'll get sucked out at close to the speed of sound. We'll be jelly with or without suits on." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie wished she could be one of the brave ones who took no part in the dancing but stood close to the horn-blower sucking noisily on big dripping pickles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start sucking my shirt cuff that’s sticking out of my jacket sleeve. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin often threatened to suck him—and the mess he deposited—up the vacuum cleaner. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the darkness, he still felt the sharp bites of the horseflies, and he felt the mosquitoes, dozens and dozens of tiny pins pricking him, sucking at him, leaving their itchy venom behind. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Cap’s injury had sucked all the pep out of this rally. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I ask, because the mud is still sucking me down. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed imagining how bitter their white juices would taste if Father Amadi had really sucked them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Things might suck down there, but at least you’re closer to the ground. That has to give us more options.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She sucked in sharply when she saw, almost immediately, that James was right. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To me, it looked like they were sucking each other’s faces off, like in a sci-fi movie. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The air is being sucked right out of me, right out of this empty room. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Thomas sucked in a big breath, as if he were about to start a race. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But O-lan, giving her suck, muttered, “Eat, poor fool—eat, while there is yet that which can be eaten.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“But you’re not! Not at all. You just want to be the best. And you have to let that go. Embrace the suck. Let your guts hang out a little.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Jasper sucked the scars on his fingers for a short interval, then resumed his crooning. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As near as I could figure, it took Charybdis about three minutes to suck up and destroy everything within a half-mile radius. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The freezing cold was sucking the strength out of him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

His lips sucked happily at the pipe, which was as long as my arm. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sucked and didn’t make any sense at all. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Boots solemnly sucked on a cookie, but didn’t make a sound. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He nibbled at his fingers and sucked at the crusted blood under what was left of his nails. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s okay. It’s like I can sort of feel your senses suck it all in while you listen.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The sound of air being sucked upward through the furnace mingled in Bigger’s ears with the faint whine of the wind outside in the night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I read it last week. It’s all about a squirrel who gets sucked up inside a vacuum cleaner and turns into a poetry-writing superhero.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She would spend whole hours sucking her finger in the bathroom, holding herself back with an exhausting iron will so as not to eat earth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His eye was round and bright and afraid, and his beak was open a little bit, probably because he was trying to suck in some air before he crashed into the water. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He sucked in his breath sharply and drank a glass of water. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth, and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself, he set out in a steady jogging pace. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fear exploded in Hazel’s stomach and she sucked in breath. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Because when someone is doing the best they can, you don’t tell them to suck it up. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He sucked at the raw meat and tried to spit out the leg bone, but it only dribbled over his lower lip and tangled in his beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The deep mud that sucked at our feet, the swarms of insects, the eruptions of the volcano were like messages of the island’s unhappiness. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each breath he took was a gasp, sucking up life, collecting it, to keep. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

My mom would have to fight with the bigger kids to get a handful of meat or a sip of the gravy or even a bone from which to suck out some marrow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This brief sucking of the pups had started Silver’s milk flowing. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, it would really suck to get thrown out the day before I make Junior Agent. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They sat in silence, feeling the heat suck away every bit of their energy. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Why, feeding the child, of course! Giving her good milk. Look at her suck!” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can’t say stuff like how much the gun thing sucks, Ashton said. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sun had sucked away all the dampness and puddles from yesterday’s thunderstorm. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then she would suck it for ten minutes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I call out as the ice shatters beneath her, sucking her in, the dark water swallowing her whole. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The only things he was sure of: it sucked she hadn’t trusted him, it sucked he was blind, it sucked she wasn’t sitting in his lap. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Are you serious, Lindsey? That would really suck for you and Cameron. I mean, you two are best, best friends, right?” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mama and Lisbeth had kept Spot’s calf from starving by letting it suck another cow. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

The current roared past the rock and took him like a chip, sucking him downstream. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It sucks we have to work with Bradley. He’s so weird,” Emily says. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Teach her what it felt like to die sucking oil. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In return, Hazel had promised to coach her in sword fighting—a skill at which Piper epically sucked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m a little too skinny—I can see the bones of my rib cage if I suck in my breath. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They didn’t have the strength to suck their thumbs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked a nipple that was not there, slavered on the neck of a girl he had barely spoken to, foamed over a sin that took place in the uncontrolled cosmos beneath his skull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his head to the right and sucked in a deep breath. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A woman with big breasts sucks her teeth when I climb over her to squeeze into a little spot without saying excuse me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like I’m tied down with soft ropes of fog or something and the fog has got inside my mouth and sucked all the talk right out of me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No. She wouldn’t do that. Although it kinda sucks you told her and not me.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once they had been six, five whimpering blind in the snow beside their dead mother, sucking cool milk from her hard dead nipples whilst he crawled off alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the paint of the washroom cubicle someone unknown had scratched: Aunt Lydia sucks. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sucked and gasped at the thin, thin air and moved slowly so as not to tire themselves. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life was back to normal, where everything sucked. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Then at one point I turned my head to suck the ice cream out of the bottom of my cone, and that’s when I saw him: August. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even the leeches and mosquitoes that wanted to suck my blood, even the land crabs whose shells sparkled like turquoise in the moonlight no longer seemed alien to me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is done with the purpose of killing insects that may come in contact with them, especially by sucking their juices or blood. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The tiny creature continued sucking its paw, shifting from foot to foot, its bushy tail curled up over the small back, higher than the tips of its ears. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And of course, after Shawn said that, the girl he was with—Michelle something—smacked him on the arm and sucked her teeth. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The man sucked a deep breath and marched in heavy Silence. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She poked at Ivy’s ankle and moved her foot around until Ivy sucked in a sharp breath. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I pulled up and my foot came out with a loud, sucking pop. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ugwu sat down and selected one and closed his eyes as he sucked it, imagining Olanna’s mouth enclosing the same bone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that he was probably thinking he might never see me again, which he probably thought every single morning of his entire weekday life as he left for work, which probably sucked. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I sucked my teeth and went, “Oh my God,” throwing my hands at my sides. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It feels like a vacuum has sucked the air out of our apartment. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He overflows with words describing how bad it sucks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

So, homecoming sucks and country music is just embarrassing, but I’m in love with the hay. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Her face is white and peaked, as if the juice is being sucked out of her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early January, and the winter chill sucked the air as dry as a bone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All around them the quiet noises of the afternoon hung in the warm air: the endless trickling sucking of the marsh, the scraping of insects, the calling of gulls. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing was, he was still sucking down his pastelles, which wound up all over his lap. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He dipped three fingers in the cake mix, and while staring Travis’s mother dead in the eye, sucked them clean and then stuck his fingers back in the bowl for a second helping. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Did it suck out all the poisons accumulated with the years? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body will suck it in like a sponge. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Alice sucked in her breath and stared up at the hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But water had begun a slow swirl around our legs, and I was afraid it would suck us under and bash us into the trees. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Kingshaw pulled his foot up, he heard a slight, sucking noise. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But of course my luck with this guy sucks. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jan paused again and sucked long and hard at his cigarette, blew the smoke out slowly and nervously bit his lips. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu cried out, then clenched his teeth and bit his lip and sucked his own blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sucked in another frigid breath, felt the air fill him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her mom sucked in her breath, then straightened the car and joined the slow-moving group in the far lane. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Richard felt himself tumbling through a tunnel, felt the weight being sucked off him hour after hour. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We suck on peppermints as I brush her soft blond hair back behind her ear. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jim and Buck and the football players disappeared, almost as if they got sucked up into the ceiling, leaving Quentin and me standing exposed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked the squirt bottle and spit the water at me. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The heat surged out in waves, washing across Mark’s face only to be sucked away by the wind gusting from behind him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But Jonboy said, “Just say the Dolphins suck and you can have it back.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He bit into the bread that tasted of army canvas, and tore and sucked at the sausage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Alfred danced back, sucking in quick, sharp breaths. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck on my sleeve and wonder if I could wear Scout overalls like Michael. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, I know it sucks to see your friend go through that, but I just want to know what’s really happening up there. Why do you call it the Changing?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m just really sorry. That sucks so much. I didn’t know.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We imitated the way you had to lift her head a little so she could drink water, she sucked it up slow out of a green tin cup. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stop sucking my sleeve even though I don’t know why he says Ew. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas stopped drinking, sucked in a big satisfied breath, then burped. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was in the front seat and next to him was Belew, nervously sucking one Marlboro Light after another as if they gave him strength. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have caught a thorn in his pads, for he kept biting and sucking at the skin. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If you were a proper saint you’d twist around here and suck the stuff out of my head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The tentacle lost the battle and disappeared down the drain with a horrible sucking sound. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I left the little Christmas tree outside his door,” Laney said while sucking on a strand of her hair. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I sucked each of his fingers one by one while he watched. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She sucks on the waterpipe and watches us silently, her jewelry glinting in the sun. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He threw himself off the horse and sucked desperately at the inhaler. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always told myself that since my lessons with Sam were usually only thirty minutes out of a two-hour practice, I could suck up the abuse. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles of the number sphere, sucking numbers in like tiny black holes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She looked bored as she sucked her teeth. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Me? You’re crazy. I suck at lots of things. Stargazing, for instance. And Ping-Pong. I’m the world’s worst Ping-Pong player.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She sucked her bottom lip in between her teeth. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He is sucking on the end of an old wooden pipe that his not seen any fire for a very long time now. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Is it just the way everyone else hates him? Because it probably sucks to be the principal who has to deal with him.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He walked over to the window, sucked another big hit from the vaporizer, and let the cloud swirl around in front of his face as he exhaled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was sucking peacefully on one of Mama’s fingers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He sensed Alec nearby, also sucking in air to catch his breath. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He generally sucks at this game, because he has about twelve Facebook friends total. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She embraced Wanda, then pulled out her phone, propping it up in front of her, sucking in a deep breath before looking up at the crowd. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The contraption was necessary because my lungs sucked at being lungs. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She sucked her teeth at the shaded windows. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucks his fist, taking in all of us without blinking. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked at it while the man pinned the flower to Bod’s sweater. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Who said I was a math nerd? I told you my grades suck.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But,” Miles says, “it sucks being one of the only Black kids there. There are, like, four of us total in the whole middle school.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It would suck. And not just for other people. For you.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“So, just fake sick,” she said with a shrug, sucking on a cherry Blow Pop while I unwrapped my green apple. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s just the sweetness of the soda—which I suck down quickly. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear the noise of a straw sucking more air than milkshake. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It sucks and booms and splashes and rumbles; it shifts and dilates and falls over itself; the labyrinth of Saint-Malo has opened onto a portal of sound larger than anything she has ever experienced. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A loud clank rang out above him and he sucked in a startled breath as he looked up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I need the extra room, and it sucks to wait until their perfectly armed selves are all done with their luxurious, roomy bathroom visits. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She sucks her lips in and looks at me again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that if you died... aside from the fact that it would really suck for you, it would mean the quest was over. This may be my only chance to see the real world.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The baby squirrel smiled...and nodded...and sucked. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He breathed deeply like he was trying to suck in all the breeze, or maybe smell the night. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mama sucked her teeth, a sure sign she was mad. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We suck at football. Hockey’s our game. Let’s hit the party like champions.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I go back to the boulder and once again push my face down into the largest pool, sucking in a mouthful of water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Near her stood a small boy in very short pants, sucking his thumb. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy’s mouth hovered over her leg the whole time, sucking and spitting. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Calmly he struck a wooden match and sucked noisily at his pipe with an eloquent air of benign and magnanimous forgiveness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Rahel watched his stomach suck inwards and his rib cage rise as his wet T-shirt peeled away from his skin, leaving it wet and honey- colored. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finds Rafael Luna hunched at his office’s open window, sucking down a cigarette. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I yelp, stick my sliced finger into my mouth, suck on the blood. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ayanna sucked in a breath at my lack of godly respect, but me and the big sunny god were cool. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Cafeteria fries suck,” she said, and I busted out laughing while she finished that one and reached for another. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Twenty years of his life had been sucked away. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dying sucks, I bet, but getting locked up in prison while life keeps going on without you has gotta be worse. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She sucked each of his long ears up the vacuum- cleaner hose. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It felt as though he were being sucked down a giant drain. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly I seemed to sink, sucked under: Ahead of me the body hung, white, naked, and horribly feminine from a lamppost. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Replace my mask to suck oxygen into my burning lungs. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, Werfel would stop to suck on his robe, which still had some water soaking its folds. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“I shoulda just got you to suck me off in the car.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Feels good to have a horse under me again,” Dywen said at the gate, sucking on his wooden teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The chupacabras, who came out after dark and sucked your juices and left you to dry like an old cantaloupe skin! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my mouth closed and suck air into my nose. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Once more Jack led them along by the suck and heave of the blinding sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She peeled one in long strips and sucked on the sweet juice hungrily. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He let his head fall again and sucked for air. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A deathly silence sucked the life out of the air as every last Glader stared at the row of windows, at the row of observers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mama Brunelle looked like she was going to say something nice, but then another bonobo infant sucked in a mouthful of water from a bucket and spat it at her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the president’s vantage point the scene was festive and crisp, but at ground level there was water and mud and the mucid sucking that accompanied any shift in position. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were no mangoes among the fishermen’s great stores, but sucking on his piece of sugar cane reminded Salva of those happier times. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It didn’t suck. It just wasn’t, like, explosions,” I lie. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dragged a hand across the floor before the darkness, and greenish lights sprung up from where his fingers passed before being sucked into the void like wraiths on the wind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sound has been sucked out of the world. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The tropical, stale heat the sidewalks had been sucking up all day hit me in the face like a last insult. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had a little fleshy knob on the center of his upper lip that drooped down over his lower lip in a sort of effeminate pout—the kind that children who suck their thumbs develop. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t suck her teeth or swat me away. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Gilly is giving suck to Dalla’s son as well as her own. It seems cruel of you to part our little prince from his milk brother, my lord.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She’s probably not that good with computers, though. We need someone who’s good at computers. Plus I bet she sucks at Resurrection,” which was our favorite video game. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Those with men had had the sweetness sucked from their breath by ovens and steam kettles. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That custody stuff must suck. I don’t know what I’d do if I had to divide myself between my mom and my dad and move to a different house every week.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“He never broke no oath, m’lord. He sleeps and cries and sucks, is all; he’s never done no harm to no one. Don’t let her bum him. Save him, please.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“That sucks,” she says, scooping up some kimchi and popping it into her mouth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Light was sucked from the environment right up to the stars, which vanished. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She put a finger in her mouth and sucked it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Riding Arion was the best thing that had happened to Leo all day—which wasn’t saying much, since his day had sucked. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Elinor thought he looked like an oyster with the flesh and life sucked out of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Carlos sucked his teeth, then shook the joke off like a champ and continued, “That’s why we gotta get to this party, so I can see what these ladies lookin’ like.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Slowly, with heart-racking agony, the air would be sucked from the metal room and his victims would die, turning red, blue, then black. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I, too, withered away, the moistness sucked out of me, my bones show­ing plainly through my thin flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As I pressed on through the boundless mist, my damp feet sucking soggy soil, the road went up an incline. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like a big, rubbery sock that ends about mid-thigh and seems to suck the fake leg on tight. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

These industries have already sucked the blood and softened the bones of the people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Tad was trying, but, really, it all still sucked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Will you stop it!” she cried on the third evening of Kreacher’s absence, as all light was sucked from the drawing room yet again. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He sucks the egg from his mustache, pushes away from the table, and heads to the bedroom. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if a supernatural wind had swept through the place and sucked out all sound. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Lena sucked in a sharp breath, but before she could say anything, the hut came to a stop. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Walters the art teacher comes over while I’m sucking the last glob of blue frosting off of my finger. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held my bundle closer to my chest as I plodded through the mud, which sucked at my rubber sandals. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss sucked in his breath, relieved, but still miserable. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We walk until we get to the dirt that sinks and sucks at our shoes, squelching with every step. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She is always sucking her teeth at what I’m wearing or making some comment about my weight, even though she’s more floppy and misshapen than a sack of laundry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the window in Molly’s bathroom, also on the ocean side, a light cotton curtain dances constantly in the breeze, sucked toward the screen and out again, billowing toward the sink, an amiable ghostly presence. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But he sucked air through clenched teeth and breathed hard, trapping those words inside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Water so black, it sucks up the light. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I suck in a breath when the cold cloth touches the sensitive part of my eye, but he is far gentler than I would have been to myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Water in the earth had dissolved parts, and the plants had sucked them up. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Leefolt look at Miss Hilly and suck in a breath, like she surprised. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Each small crib held an infant, and two attendants were propping warmed bottles on padded holders beside their heads so that they could suck. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, I sucked in as much air as I could and breathed it back out. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This casserole sucks, but I like the way you roasted the walnuts. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It had sucked his soul out through his mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I try to suck in as much air as I possibly can, coughing desperately as I flip open a keypad, my hands shaking too much to type in the numbers. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“No, he literally meant grind my own beans. Basic-training coffee sucked.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She would sit in her small rocker sucking her finger in the most remote corner of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The air was immediately sucked from the room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The horror of the room, he would later say, sucked all other functions out of him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the angry insistence of her crying had filled the house, but she had come to be quiet, sucking feebly at whatever was put into her mouth and never lifting up her voice. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She would not store her supers for the winter until the bees had sucked out the last remaining bits of honey from the combs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck in my breath and don’t run. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They suck the fun out of the whole thing, you know?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The word is a symbol and a delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even though the rest of us have been meeting a few times a week, it sucks rehearsing without your singer and lead guitarist. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Red lights appeared in the deep, but they sucked in more light than they gave, illuminating nothing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Only difference was now the sound was timesed by five and was added to a bunch of whimpers and the hard sucking in of air. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The entire afternoon had passed, sucked up by the darkness of the tunnel. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mom sucked on the cigarette like it was the only thing anchoring her to the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“A beautiful forest spirit who will suck the life out of you!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The old thick walls sucked in coat after coat of whitewash made with lime in salt water, which, as it dried, seemed to have a luminosity of its own. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I figured he was just grandstanding, sucking up the media’s attention because he could. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Oomen wavered, sucking on his lip, snot running from his nose. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But then she sucks in her breath, and I realize she’s holding back tears. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Actually, Ultraviolet, I’m pretty sure you don’t suck at writing.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t been flooded with adrenaline and worry I would have mouthed each one after it was said, shoving them into my pockets like sweets to suck on later. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They loved to prey on rootworkers and suck up all their strength. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It gazed up at him curiously, sucking noisily on its paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Stick out your butt, suck in your gut. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The boy grabbed for it eagerly, buried his face against her chest, and began to suck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We’re on a sharp angle, and we’re crowding the car next to us, so I suck in my breath to shimmy out my door. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Only normal sucked, and he didn’t think he could live like this—not anymore. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the little cow ran to its mother to drink milk, my mom would let it suck from two teats, and she would milk the other two teats. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knelt down before him and unbuttoned his shirt to suck the soft-firm flesh of his belly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I’m finally sucking in ragged breaths, he kisses my head. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You made me do that!” said Ron angrily, sucking his cut thumb. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Oxygen-rich air was sucked into the column at the base, where it mixed with the burning fuels and also rose, twisting and whirling around as it did. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

They floated aimlessly, until one by one they were slowly sucked into the intake screen of our air-conditioning system. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept kicking and stroking my arm overhead until I broke the surface and sucked in a lungful of air. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He picked up his exercise book while sucking the second bone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vola reached into the jar, popped the stick into her mouth, sucked the syrup off, pitched the stick over her shoulder into the sink, and rolled her eyes. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, dude. Can't talk about it. My lips are too numb from all the kissing. That girl kisses like she wants to suck out your soul.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Then the sea sucked down, revealing a red, weedy square forty feet beneath Ralph's left arm. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And here’s Ben, peering at me sweetly, with those eyes and those freckles, and I guess he probably knows the mechanics, and I should probably warn him how much I’m going to suck at this. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They were red the rest of the day, and I couldn’t suck my thumb that night. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It did not roar but grumbled, cracked, shushed, sucking the air from our throats and all speech with it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

End Day or not, that announcement can suck it. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Is the boy with the red hair—” Ralph loudly sucked the cheek out of a steamed fish head. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my breath and listened with my ears. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss sucked the air in, and the coolness filled his mouth, spilled down his throat and into his lungs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It totally sucks that only Jesus gets to walk on water. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She raised her bottle of water to Coyotito’s lips; his little dried tongue sucked greedily at it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long hair sucks when you swim every day. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

My mother tried to teach me, but she sucked at it, too. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As they laughed, he sucked the meat from a crab leg and reached for another. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I sucked in on the metal cigarette as if a doctor were telling me to. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sucked on that and spit out the pith and watched the soldier pass up and down past a freight-car outside and after a while the train gave a jerk and started. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When a small barefooted boy was bitten by a rattlesnake, it was her duty to suck his toe to draw the poison out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cold water is sucking the heat out of me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Taylor sucked in air and stared hard. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So you stand there, and you squelch your toes, and you raise your arms up above your head, and you watch the clouds get sucked back into ducts in the sky. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what I’m good at, and I know what I suck at. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sucked in her breath and went still, hoping it would stop. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I suck in my breath at the sight of her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I dropped through the roar, giddy and vacuum-minded, sucked under and out into late afternoon Harlem. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep talking to him. Try to get him to suck on a small amount of mango, not too much.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The sound of everybody’s hopes deflating is almost a sucking inside the room. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The referee blew the whistle, and all the sound sucked out of the room until it was just Luke and Lowry circling like a couple of dogs itching for a throat. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She shows me how to peel off the hard skin and suck on the sweet-sour flesh inside. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I sucked my teeth and held up one of my airplanes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

You suck in air and shout back: “Just a minute!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We suck their brains out through their noses with a straw!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As soon as the missiles got close to one another, all six warheads detonated in midair, spraying a dome of gold and fire that sucked the oxygen right out of the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I suck on my sleeve and stare at the chart. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam scowled at him, and sucked his teeth; but he seemed to sense that there was something odd about his master’s mood and that the matter was beyond argument. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"Well," she said, sucking away at her stinking cigar, "their favourite ruse is to mix up a powder that will turn a child into some creature or other that all grown-ups hate." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Nearer the door, the Queen’s Hand was attacking a brace of capons, sucking the meat off the bones and washing down each bite with ale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Almost at once the Grievers had shut down completely, their instruments sucked back through their blubbery skin, their lights turned off, their inside machines dead quiet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I got the new Alice Wu at the library, but the cover sucks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She took two little bottles from her pocket and sucked a little from each one into the eye-dropper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the president’s heart began to beat and his lungs sucked in a breath. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sucked in another big breath and said, “Because . .. because I think you know why your father doesn’t like Mr. Shears very much.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would suck in her chest, look startled, and then shake. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had sucked on my fingers as a baby, so when something bothered me, they still fluttered into my mouth. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It didn’t speak any tongue that she recognized; it was guttural and harsh, and grated against her ears, as if it sucked the very warmth from her bones. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I suck in a breath, surprised by the tears gathering in my eyes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When someone finally did answer, I sucked in the tears that wet my lips and told them that on the corner of Tanglewood and South… But she cut me off. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Anya sucked in breaths as she hurried away from the water. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He sucked gas from the line and spit it overboard. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know why this letter sucks?” he asked. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aurora has Petunia the Sea Turtle in a death grip and is sucking on one of her flippers. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Even before I opened my eyes, I felt Clancy jerk back, sucking in a hiss of what sounded like pain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Gasping, I press my face to the glass above me, sucking in as much air as I can. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The weather lady says it’s a lake-effect storm—the wind from Canada sucks up water from Lake Ontario, runs it through the freeze machine, and dumps it on Syracuse. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Spinks stared at a clipboard while he sucked on a half empty bottle of R.C. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t a dream or a vision or even a story I’d been sucked into. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The forester sucked on his spoon a moment. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, I know I’m not some starving kid who has to wash clothes in the Ganges for a nickel, but today just sucks. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My legs collapsed beneath me after several steps, and I sucked in the breathable air near the floorboards. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They’re very pale, as if almost all the color has been sucked out of them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He eased back on his arm and Mark sucked in a breath, filling his lungs.Then the pilot grabbed him by the shirt and sat up, putting all his weight on Mark’s stomach. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I really like her; it’s going to suck to see her go. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then, like a genie sucking back into a bottle, he regained control. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby Gene sucked air through his teeth, a small desperate whistle. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her headache flared to life with a sudden burst that sucked the air from her lungs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s done with a slight grimace as they suck air through their teeth, which makes an interesting hiss. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Others were heartbroken; Seabiscuit could suck the joy out of any good racehorse’s career. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ignatius stuck the bottle of Dr. Nut under his moustache and drank noisily, making great sounds of sucking and gurgling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll lie and insist that there’s been a computer error and that I am supposed to be in the Distinguished Scholars class, even though I suck in English and have a learning disability. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Alec sucked in a short breath, and Mark sensed him tensing up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He dipped a rag in whisky and gave it to the baby to suck, and after three or four dippings young Adam went to sleep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias sucked in his breath and squeezed closer to the wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Bob stumbled, the wispy comet tail of his life force growing longer as it was sucked toward the face of the god. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gay looked like she wished she could suck the words back in. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The baby squirrel continued sucking on its paw. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tyrion drove the dagger’s point into the ball of his thumb, watched the blood bead up, sucked it away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it pretty much sucks, except for the makeup,” Jule said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you know that I sucked my mothers breast when your father sucked his mothers?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"You can put it in me again, if it please you," she whispered in his ear as he sucked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I glance at his face and he’s sucking his lips in between his teeth. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ray sucked his teeth, like she was babying me. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Wish I didn’t still have feelings; it sucks feeling sorry for another ghost. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I don’t understand God at all and even if I’d like to be a saint and have everyone adore me I’d never suck the snot of a leper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The explosion,” I say, trying to hide my smile because after all these months of ignoring me, she’s sucking up. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He pushed my composition book back on his desk and looked at me curiously, sucking at his pipe. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They burned holes in the air, wrote poems of love, sucked the venom from sores, painted landscapes of gloom, and made metal sing; they dissected fire like newts. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But then one weekend, our moms took us to the planetarium at the natural history museum—and that’s when I got sucked into it, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The sun was down, and the twilight chill sucked the last of the deer’s life away—the eyes were dull and sunken; it was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up and looked at August, hearing the quick suck of air through my lips. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shielded from the eyes of COs by milling inmates, he stabbed himself deeply, purposefully creating a sucking chest wound. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How could we take offense? You just tried to drown us and suck out our lives.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nan sucked in short breaths, and I noticed her ankle was already puffy, swelling so much the bone hardly seemed to be there at all. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They would suck the fruit-flavored air down their nostrils and roll it around on their tongues. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It sucks everything around it out of time and space and into—well, I don’t know, Your Maj, because I was never frightfully good at science, but, you know, the Great Nothing or some such. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Blood beaded on her fingertip, and she sucked it away, spitting it into the ocean. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And that would suck, because I would miss New York and I would miss all of you guys. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He sucks in his breath when I say it. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, that’s one of the things that sucks about being a new kid at school. You don’t have any friends to fill you in on all the dirt.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Allow your mem'ry to linger, dwell on the taste of a finger. To suck on marrow, crunch on bone...what food delights we both have known!" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The possibility of not being able to eat my favorite fast food, dealing with random crazies who come in and talk trash, and mopping up throw-up really, really sucks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One of the men clad in wolfskin had stumbled and pitched forward, screaming as the black bog seized and sucked him down. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It sucks all the chemicals and cells outside so we don’t have to breathe them in.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Whether or not, the fact is she was in that bed sucking his fingers, and if she do that when he was dead, what’d she do when he was alive? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked on the tassels of my hoodie as he led me around the tower, following the crumbling wall that enclosed us. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Carlos held on, but he could feel air rushing beneath the car, sucking his legs in, close to the wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He sucked languidly, one bone after another, and did not bother to tone down the slurpy sounds his mouth made. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I was a real superhero, I’d have a pocket-sized magic vacuum that would suck up Angel’s words whenever she opens her mouth. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He saw the water begin to pull back from the rocks below him, saw the seaweed sucked out in long green tresses, saw the ocean yanked away from the dark, sharp mussel beds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I refused to let my parents get sucked into the void. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The boy pulled his fingers away from the wire mesh and began to suck on them to stop the throbbing. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wait until they are sucking the grease from their fingers to ask, “So, what’s your story?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just cut from E.T. on Broadway. Life sucks, but at least I’m still named after a river, ” and we titter. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

To live deep and suck out all the marrow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks another instructor vanishes, sucked up into the engine of the war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Thinking I must have dropped a grain or two, I vacuumed the entire apartment with a straw up my nose, sucking up dead skin cells, Comet residue, and pulverized cat litter. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For takeoff and climb, it would need advanced jet engines that sucked in air, mixed it with fuel, and burned the mixture. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach was making sounds, hollow rumbling sounds that seemed too loud, that would not stop even when I sucked in my belly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude, that sucks for you. Judging from the sound in Chrysaor’s throat, he was now snarling under the mask, too. “You are as arrogant as the first Perseus,” Chrysaor said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You go to a special academy that gives you extra work to suck up every spare minute—especially since it probably takes forever to get there. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

We all sucked so much in middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The train seemed to suck him forward to where the huge wheels, each as high as his chest, blurred past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were dead! Did you and Ford suck that Freon too?!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And by gay, I don't mean that it sucks. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The girl glared at them, sucking on her knuckles to take the sting out, and Sansa was horrified. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She stopped to spit; the saliva left her mouth with a sucking sound and landed on the grass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Ugh. It’s never an appropriate time for a nihari joke. I had nightmares about sucking out the marrow from those bones.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He landed with a grunt of pain and Mark scrambled to his feet, struggling to suck air into his lungs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The bench held me back, sucked me in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My life sucks, but it would suck even harder in Mexico, and you know it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He grimaced as if in excruciating pain, sucked in air through his teeth, rubbed the elbow, and claimed he couldn’t use his arm for the remainder of the meal. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck up my courage and ask, “What did you put inside that tin?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Like Mother Nature has sucked up everything—all sounds, winds, human talk and cries. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a lungful of air, and his gaze drifted up to the top of the stairs. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The old soldier took out a pipe, but having no light, merely sucked on the stem. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I cackle with rage and suck in breath. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a subtle point: vacuums don’t suck; the atmosphere pushes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Her skin, usually the smooth brown of groundnut paste, looked like the liquid had been sucked out of it, ashen, like the color of cracked harmattan soil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I decided that my junior year at Austin High School was going to suck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When the bell rings I stand there sucking my sleeve until I remember I have a maybe friend and I go find Michael. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked in air and immediately regretted it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This sucks,” I said to the empty room. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Beneath the waves, sucked beneath, the feel of her warm grasp. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is wrapped in a blanket, her eyes fluttering in sleep, her little mouth making sucking motions. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

His cough became a terrible thin whistle as he strained to suck in air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is roots sucking deep at the earth, and the pale, sightless creatures that live below the ground. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Moss sucked in a breath and looked over at his mother. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Park turned toward the Plexiglas window and waited for a world of suck to hit the fan. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It ain’t right for this place to suck the strength of their youth, then cast them off like dry husks to the wind. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like the lightbulb, for instance, was technically invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1811, but his lightbulb sort of sucked and burned out all the time. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Me? Fine. 1 mean, yes it sucks, but you know. It’s not like I knew her. Collectively I spent maybe a couple of hours with her. Seriously, I’m cool.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Part of me wanted to shake her, hard, and say, ‘Hey, I know things suck for you right now, but can you find somebody else’s shoulder to cry on? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

So I decided I’d have to be tough, like Annie told me, and suck it up, even if it felt like I was dying. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Can we just suck it up? Please? It's the last cast party.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Losing your best friend sucks, even if it’s only for three months and two days. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The air was so hot and dry, it sucked the moisture right out of his lungs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The fires above ought to have sucked the last oxygen out of this hole by now. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Shadow leaned back in the seat, and sucked down water from the bottle, and let the night before wash over him. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I sucked in some oxygen as Mr. Dolan crossed the room. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when he’s on a folding chair across from your school, sucking on a Slurpee and talking to himself, he’s kind of annoying. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He was invigorated by the day’s hunt, like a vampire sucking in the life force of its victims. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She sucked in a deep breath, as if coming up for air after a long time beneath dark waters. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it doesn’t suck right now,” I said, staring at our feet. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He once gave them puffs from his cigarette and got annoyed because they had sucked it and wet the filter with spit. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

People accustomed to violence, who sucked it down like ale. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sucked in the fresh air as hard as I could. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a big gulp of air, got a good grip on my suitcase and walked into the light of the stage. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

By turning on the pump, the bullet could be sucked out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We ate greedily, licking our palms and sucking under our dirty fingernails. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I suck in breath: a photograph of a papaya tree swaying broad, fan like leaves in the full sun, showing off a bundle of fat orange piglets. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I try to sneak a peek at the address, but his handwriting sucks, and I can’t read upside down. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mom sucked on her cigarette; the cherry flared. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The policewoman sucked on a butterscotch Life Saver—I could smell it—and typed everything I said into the computer. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My wimpy +1 Flaming Sword couldn’t even affect him, and the two magic rubies in his eye sockets had the power to suck out my avatar’s life force and kill me instantly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Each time he sucked, there was an evil kind of frying sound. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re moving so quickly that your momentum pulls you faster and faster, like something getting sucked down a drain. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to keep you from seeing how much something actually did suck. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Kid Sampson, Nately and the others wandered apart in a noiseless eddy of motion and were sucked away into the cloying yellow stillness. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When she sucked on it, she saw that half the thumbnail was gone, ripped off in her fall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You could scramble onto one of the fishing boats. But if you fell on the sea side, you might get sucked under.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I lean over too far and one wave comes and sucks me into the sea. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

While I was resting there, sucking the juice from the cactus, I saw the big gray dog, the leader of the wild pack, in the brush above me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never had work before that sucked from me every breath, every thought, every trace of energy. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shivering in the rain while trying not to cry and throw up at the same time really sucks. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I pressed my hand over my eyes and sucked in a deep breath. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the past eighteen months, my mets have hardly grown, leaving me with lungs that suck at being lungs but could, conceivably, struggle along indefinitely with the assistance of drizzled oxygen and daily Phalanxifor. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I almost start sucking my sleeve like I do at recess but then I remember. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero brought his hands to his mouth and sucked up his blood. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It's going to really suck losing to duck and turkey calls. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He sucked on it, feeling new heat rise out of his empty stomach into his head. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think through everything, but in the end the weight is heavier, as if it’s moving up the rest of my body and sucking me down. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for Nunu to get sucked into the cartoon. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

This past summer my entire family had been sucked into a black hole with no hope of escape. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There Sam lay still, softly sucking a scratched hand. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Until this moment, I didn’t realize how badly I sucked. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, what you were doing is, too. So suck it up. And stop calling me that.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

"I will soak a towel with warm milk, and give him suck from that." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then she closed her eyes and went on sucking vigorously. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Now that I hear about Ethan sucking in this department, I’m extra grateful for Dylan. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Only, in his case, he thought shiny, future Twinkle sucked. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She sucks in a large breath and holds on to it for what feels like an eternity. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I sucked on one of my tassels for a second and then spit it out when I realized I was doing it in front of Sohrab. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“And Madoc killed our parents, so that sucks. And then there are the jerks at school that you don’t like to talk about.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And I have an idea of how we can make it not suck.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The helicopter ripped by overhead and the noise it made sucked up all the air around it. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Does the baby want his momma? Come, have a suck o' this, boy." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was standing there, sucking on the knuckle of her third finger, staring in the window of Gertrude’s Pets. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the suck and thump of the darts being launched and landing on his wall, through mine. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We had just awakened from a short sleep and were sucking lukewarm coffee out of plastic tubes and munching on bacon which had been squeezed into little cubes, like lumps of sugar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coughing and pounding himself on the chest with the inside of his fist and sucking down coffee to try and wash it down. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then once Chicago had gorged itself on your suffering and sucked you down to the marrow, it would leave you for dead. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mark could feel the fresher air with every breath he sucked into his lungs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

My teacher still slept, and this weighed on me and sucked the happiness out of everything. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Radioactive liquid pools in a depression in the copperized wood, but as I watch, it’s sucked in by the black pitch between the metallic planks. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When I’m up, I lie there for a moment, sucking in air and heaving it back out again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the big honey flow was over, the bees were still out there sucking nectar, going about their business. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wow, that sucks,” the girl says, and presses my gun harder against his head. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She whimpered, scratched at the nipple I had not sucked in years. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor looked away when the spider started sucking out the bug’s liquefied insides. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fistfights broke out in his boxcar as the riders jockeyed to suck fresh air through tiny rust holes over the doors. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And I can’t anymore. And sometimes that sucks. Maybe I’m just stubborn, and I didn’t want them to be right.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For the first time I realize he was right...but that twinge of memory escapes from me, and is sucked into the foul-smelling pitch that holds the ship together. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a severe gray suit and was sucking a peppermint. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby peeked over the big toe and sucked her teeth at the sight of the defeated iron monsters. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I was inhaling, I made a nearly airtight seal with the mask by sucking it to my face. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we played soccer in the yard, the babushkas would suck their teeth, because Ali Shekari was a high-flying acrobat with the ball. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I’m stuffed-animaling the playground so well that after a while there’s only monkey bars left and one shape that’s coming toward me so I stop blurring and suck my sleeve more. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They held hands and slowly marched into the sucking ooze. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was all sucked in and his eyes looked like they were going to pop out of his head. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s feminine and beautiful, but there’s also some hurt feelings among the married women who aren’t invited to partake in the tradition because, well, their unions suck and no one wants the bad juju. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He spat out water, sucked in air, grabbed hold of the nearest chunk of debris, and held on. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I decided during government that I would actually, literally suck donkey balls if it meant I could skip that class for the rest of the semester,” he said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Losing a leg was like having to learn to suck in air through the pores of my skin. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He had two sucking chest wounds and an abdominal wound. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It sucks here. People are dumb and racist and homophobic. I don’t have a single female friend at school since Heidi left.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, he has his mouth on the little nose and he’s sucking sucking the bad stuff out of Michael’s head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mark fell to the ground, sucking the life back into his lungs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was this green room, a very small green room, and his mother was sitting in the green room and her breasts were uncovered and somebody was sucking them and the somebody was himself. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it began to move again, to swirl and suck at him. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a jumbo gulp of air and opened the front door again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He lay there as still as the morning light, and sucked the world’s energy up into his own will. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked his teeth as loud as Ma did. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The worst thing she says during my lengthy coffee shop apology after school is “You suck, J. Really, really bad. Hope you know that.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Thomas sucked in a huge gulp of air, then another, feeling the pinch of the vines tied around his chest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

While we sucked away on our straws, my father read to us from the latest newspaper. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel myself getting sucked into this mystery. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In early summer there are plenty of things for a child to eat and drink and suck and chew. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Right now it sucks to be me—but until now, it never occurred to me that it also sucks to be them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

How it sucked those toxic chemicals straight out of the earth and churned them into beauty. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He sucks in a breath and holds it as he fires. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“My friend Rabiya wants me to make Eid cards and sell them to raise money, but you guys know my art skills suck.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Snuffy shrugged and, in Spanish, suggested the regional director place one of his fingers somewhere and then afterward suck on it like on a popsicle stick. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked her nipples till she cried out half in pain and half in pleasure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I opened the window — surprised when it opened silently, without sticking, not having opened it in who knows how many years — and sucked in the relatively dry air. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I coughed reflexively and sucked down another lungful of the burning air just as I entered the wall of flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He fired up the moldy butt and sucked on it for a solid minute without even glancing in my direction. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

When Cole breathed again, he noticed that his breaths had cooled as if he were sucking on a menthol cough drop. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And I don’t want to embrace the suck. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But it’s like each step is swamp mud sucking him down and he’s got to lift extra hard to get to the next step. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Archie, walking toward the platform for a close view of the proceedings, sucked in his breath, as if he were sipping this sweetest of all events. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of waiting room that sucked away all hope, sent it swirling down a drain far out of reach. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The best of me is sucked out and wasted. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She sucked on her teeth and slowly lifted one eyebrow. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I sucked in air and tried to hold myself rigid. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings she would sit and write and I’d pretend to be sucking on my pipe, but actually I was looking at her from the corner of my eye. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touch my shoulder to be close to my octopus tattoo and imagine my tentacles reaching out to cover Lydia’s notebook and suck up some of its confidence. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I turn back to the Chagall, begging it to suck me in, please, just as Dad fills up the doorway. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you just did that. Use Allah and blackmail in the same sentence. You suck.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Alan, the cool kid, had drawn a line, and sucking up to him, everyone turned against me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The dybbuk will say anything to survive. It is a parasite that will suck every last drop of strength from its host and leave nothing left.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I pressed a hand to my stomach and sucked in air, but bile rose to block it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Too bad TV sucks on Saturday morning unless you’re a little kid or a politician. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“The road trip has kind of sucked anyway, but I don’t want the job to take my time. I need to do the Theorem.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The fireplace was in the corner of the room; the flames blazed up, snapping the kindling and sucking at the wind that came down the chimney. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bloated tube leapt up and then it was sucked in, under the wall and into a cavern. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the time it starts to the time it goes off, I am sucked into the pageantry of it all. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nancy sucked in a third of her can, gulping loudly, and released a noisy satisfied sigh. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck in my breath and enter my room. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

School sucks and it’s hotter outside than the dishwasher's steam cycle. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For a moment all they heard was Sam's heavy breathing and the wet sound of Dywen sucking on his teeth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He’s sucking on his sleeve, getting all the water he can from it, and I decide to do the same to my sleeve. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A kid the size of a first grader who sucked on an inhaler all the time sure had a lotta nerve shushing people, Chet thought. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

His father dangled above him, half his body sucked into the hydrofoil’s gear system. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I called, my voice instantly sucked up by the wind. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jelly looked up from the locker bench, his body slick with sweat, his mouth sucking air like a fish's gill. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sucked a glob of hot potato from her finger, chasing it with another sip from her wine. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Pacheco swung clumsily at another pretty moth sucking on a sweet pea nearby and stunned both himself and the lawyer by catching it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puking sucked, but it was over quickly. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Be sucking my thumb next-" He looked round, furtively. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Even I could pull that one off and I suck at jokes.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, one of his cohorts had his mouth on the coin slots, sucking out the jammed coins and leaving his slobber. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like the cafeteria has fallen away—sound has been sucked out, there’s no sense of anyone else in the room, just me, Ben, and Sabeen. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I grimace and suck the air in through my teeth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I'm playing along because this isn't one of Dad's usual lectures, like where he sucks all the fun out of a roller coaster by talking about g-forces and potential energy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watch me take suck to new and exciting elevations. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But time wasn’t going to change the fact that his mother was dead and that everything sucked. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And when he told her he could suck the red veins out and make her beautiful again, she believed him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moves away from the sink and walks to the kitchen table for another suck of dirty plates, into my line of vision. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He trotted about on the parapet, always sucking his paw, leaping from stone to stone, fighting off imaginary foes with his tiny dagger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dauntless surged forward, shoved by the waves toward the rocky outcrop of the island, and then they were sucking through the shallows and past the island and the Teeth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then she lay down and sucked the knuckles of her right hand, as she had done when she was a small child. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She clings to me as tightly as if I were keeping her from being sucked into a vortex. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The streets just suck them in like a Hoover vacuum cleaner and spit them back out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a final suck at his thumb. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I saw masks of iron with metal mouth-bits for the slave to suck to enforce absolute silence. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tell him about how I passed the cafeteria during fourth-grade lunch and heard some kids yelling that the food sucked. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

These you sucked inside your mouth till all the flavor was gone, and then you stripped the moistened meat away from the seed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton begins to play the scales again—this time, she says, in the key of G. I suck in a large breath and pray to baby Jesus. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Rupa’s body was blocking most of his view, but to Neel’s amazement, he heard an answering mew, and then a soft sucking sound. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When she got it lit at last, she took a long pull and sucked in the smoke. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

On the way home we stopped in the People’s Park and sat on a bench while Malachy and I sucked on our sweets and Mam and Nora smoked their cigarettes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And even though I always suck at this kind of thing, her face made me say yes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We pulled and pulled but it seemed like the harder we pulled, die harder the boot sucked the shoe back in. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel sucked me into its darkness and I happy-screamed my way to the bottom. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Wearing a nice suit and sucking up to reporters? How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they sucked on lollipops, watching us the way they watched the animals. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It sucks. My mom spends all her time on this website LostConnections writing him notes he’s never even going to see. Totally pathetic.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I lick my hands, I lick my arms, I bunch my hair, pull it around and suck on it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I mean that specifically—not a general comment about how all Monday mornings suck. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It lifted reluctantly, with a wet sucking sound. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mark expected Trina to argue a little, but she nodded, sucking in deep breaths. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I suck the last of my soda through the straw. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The coach barked the number of the next play, a play designed to suck in Carter, the big beefy varsity guard who looked as if he could chew freshmen up and spit them out. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen monsters were sucked into the vortex and disintegrated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a big breath, connecting the parts of the scene. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But his tummy, even angled and sucked in, was a real problem. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Still sucking his fingers, the boy looked once more at the men whitewashing the stones. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It sucks being here alone on the weekend. All my friends are gone,” I said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But what sucked most of all was that just as I was about to leave so I could go meet Annie, Mr. Farrow appeared, blocking the doorway out of my room. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I suck in a breath, whisper, “Thank God.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“This place sucks,” Natalie said, and now it sounded like she wanted to punch somebody. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a horrible trick, the sense that her value is being sucked down the drain, like when the plug is pulled from the tub and the dirty water goes down. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She sucked in air and screamed, and he grabbed her hair and pulled her away from him, and she stumbled and went down, and then he was standing over her, breathing hard, shaking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And anyway, the swimming instructors who called themselves lifeguards sucked. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I'm sure you're thinking, Yeah, but come on, not having arms must really suck at times. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Still sucking his paw, the small squirrel smiled shyly. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At the time, I thought, “That sucks!” but it didn’t affect me because I was at home. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hickock rethreaded her darning needle; her husband rocked his rocker and sucked on an unlit pipe. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He eventually went unconscious, but it sounds like, yeah, it wasn’t great or anything. Dying sucks.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“No you wouldn’t. It sucks. And I think that woman who lives downstairs, Mrs. Singer, is a witch or something.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a breath and raised his hand at me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a bit dramatic,” Nora observes, sucking an olive off the end of a toothpick. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I make her walk through it, though the cold water and sucking mud slows us down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I swear I could hear Ms. Webber suck in her breath as she tried to figure out how to answer. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Being on the verge of seventeen could really suck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The monster sucked it up happily and shambled along. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Most of my childhood sucked, but our summers in Mexico were different. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was one flat rock there, spread like a table, and the waters sucking down on the four weedy sides made them seem like cliffs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

From eighteen hundred bottles eighteen hundred carefully labelled infants were simultaneously sucking down their pint of pasteurized external secretion. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set off full speed, sucking sugar out of my molars and just real pleased with myself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Nearly every city I know has such a dying mother of violence and despair where at night the brightness of the street lamps is sucked away and policemen walk in pairs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice was quieter than before, as if my getting louder had sucked the strength from her own breath. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then Emma put twenty leeches on Fanny, which they hoped would suck the disease out with the blood. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People get sucked in and are never seen again.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The girls struggled in the mud, fighting the pull as it sucked them farther down no matter what they did. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She put a savory bite in her mouth, sucked the juices, then chewed a long time before she swallowed. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That sucking marrow part went over my head, but yeah, that’s the gist of it.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Her face streaked with tears, Lupita looked down at her baby brother, who had stopped crying the instant she had taken him and who was now sucking his thumb. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Jesus and Magdalena edge close to the tracks, dig in their heels, and brace each other, so the wind the train produces will not suck them under the wheels. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I dont want to make a killing; save that to suck in the smart gamblers with. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, we were sitting in the sun—it was warm for January—and I was still sucking air. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I hear you did not suck your mother’s breasts,” Master’s mother said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Your definition is a whirlpool trying to suck me in and Vm drowning. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her lips touched his skin, he sucked in an involuntary, desperate breath and a weight slammed into his chest. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I don’t know. Yeah. This sucks. It meg sucks.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to tell her I don’t want to talk about any of this because I’m trying to get out of the black hole she keeps sucking me back into. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Though no matter how happy I am, summer school Mondays always especially suck. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Commander Root was sucking on a particularly noxious fungus cigar. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Or like the Blob— when it touches you it sucks you in and it just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed the cut on his swollen hand against his mouth and sucked it hard. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

He sucked in the deepest breath he dared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Air pressure is supplied by an electric motor that sucks air from the outside and passes it through virus filters and then injects it into the suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father’s stunned expression sucked the fight out of me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She held my wrist that held the match until she had sucked in enough fire for the entire end of her cigarette to catch. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck in my breath, wait—don’t do it—and then type a single command just as Jena’s item leaves her hand. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I felt horrible about it and it sucked, but I couldn’t save them. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Blue lips speak only lies, isn't that what Xaro told you? Why do you care what the warlocks whispered? All they wanted was to suck the life from you, you know that now." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Not only does rain mean no practice, but rain on Wednesday means Thursday's practice—the last practice before the meet on Saturday—was gonna suck. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see him suck it down. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the rest of the crew really sucked. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then, after sucking in and sadly letting out a deep breath, he bawled: “Okay, everybody: CUT IT OUT!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked the wound, then spit “I hate catfish! Them stingers hurt worse than Pa’s belt.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

How in the pit, when things got going, you weren’t so much walking or dancing as being sucked into a whirlpool. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Girls can be tough, stuck-up or cheap, mousy or boy- crazy; or they can be brains and sucks and brownnosers, like boys, if they are thought to study too much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...It would suck to kill myself. I’d hurt a lot of people and...it would suck.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It is a world where the enchanted forest of the fairy tales has become the poisonous forest in which an insect that chews a leaf or sucks the sap of a plant is doomed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She was out before I’d even sucked all the leftover peanut butter out of my teeth. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Britain sucks his teeth and glares at Shanna, who sticks her tongue out at him. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I suck in a breath, but luckily she hasn’t noticed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a sharp breath, closing his eyes. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She pulls her shoulders back and sucks in her stomach. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My plane whirled around a bit before getting sucked between the buildings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He sucked up his last bit of saliva and spat. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I lowered it into the mouth, sucked and snapped in the ends, and chewed, then took a bite of cheese, chewed, and then a drink of the wine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

My daddy sucked in his breath as I told them about the letter opener and forgetting the last two sticks and David coming to pick me up. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth was dry and he tried to suck spit into it. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God, I really don’t want to complain to you about it, because I know your home life sucks.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I drained that golden cup to the very last drop, sucking at the hole to catch any remaining moisture. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Citra was caught completely off guard—a bit dizzy, as if all the air had been sucked out of the car. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It sucks and I’m a horrible wench. Please, will you let me read them now?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But while he was doing this, the wretched boy was being sucked closer and closer toward the mouth of one of the great pipes that was dangling down into the river. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dad listened, sucking on his cheeks while his right hand fiddled with the gearshift. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He sucked on his lower lip for a moment. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Charlie Valentine thrust his top dentures from his mouth and sucked them back in again, his favorite gesture of disapproval. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This is not the lush farmland or forest of Europe, but desert and wilderness, with hot, salty ocean wind that sucks the moisture from our lips. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She snuggles close to me and sucks the warmth out from the whole blanket. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I sucked salty milk from it, as if from the sea itself. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I mean, she had a good reason and everything — it was finals time at college — but it sucks having hospital cake for your birthday. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother leant back in her chair and sucked away contentedly at her foul black cigar. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I try—I suck the air into my lungs and I force it out—but there’s no sound, just a rasping, like a dying person fighting for air. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know this because I was spinning slowly around in the barber’s chair to the left of Penny, reading a book about a sixteen-year-old who sucks his thumb. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"BLLLLAAARRRRGGGGH," he answers, and then sucks in a desperate wheezing breath before more pours forth. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“If you can’t stick it out, I might have to figure out a way to go to juvie with you. And that would suck for both of us.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Grant the dear boon of life to this most uncommon tiggy, lordly measter, and he shall sing to thee in numbers sweet or teach ’ee how to suck cow’s milk in the pearly dew.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sucks her teeth, because even saying such a thing—heaven forbid. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s like naming someone Mommy Loves You. No wonder that kid still sucks her thumb.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Seabiscuit’s wake seemed to create an irresistible vacuum, sucking the fans in behind him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sucked in her breath in fear and surprise and felt fur in her mouth. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minho waited until he made it back through the Door, then bent over, hands on his knees, and sucked in a few breaths before answering. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He held the flame over the bowl and sucked. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sucks in a deep breath and lets it out. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And then the thing beneath the hood, whatever it was, drew a long, slow, rattling breath, as though it were trying to suck something more than air from its surroundings. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her corset—the stupid, cursed thing—pushed on her ribs so hard that the breath was sucked from her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She giggle at this a second and I suck in my breath at the word maid. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The tea was tooth-achingly sweet, and Ophie sucked it down gratefully after a day spent running tea trays up and down the grand staircase. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was the first one he had smoked in a long time; he sucked the hot smoke deep into his lungs and blew it out slowly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a lot of air and added: "Think of it as a game." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Yes, they have solutions—padding, mostly—and yes, those solutions suck. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Probably would've sucked her teeth hard enough to turn her whole face inside out if she could. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The weaker ones fell backward and were sucked underfoot, unable to pull themselves up. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He shoved her off of him, sucking in air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For one, I started to notice just how much school sucked. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and Ah makes and sucks ’em when de notion strikes me. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

And now there came a sort of sucking noise, and very quickly all the blue frothy mixture in the huge basin was sucked back into the stomach of the machine. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

The entire maintenance compartment had become a vortex of whirling gears that seemed to want to suck Nailer in. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas squirmed away on his hands and feet, sucking in breaths of air, and got his first good look at the crazed attacker. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my breath when I read your name. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"How much you got," Noodles said, sucking in his breath—the patty was hot! When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The fog sucked the tremor of inflection in his voice, and the sentence came out sounding flat, lifeless. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And you need to get a life, and stop thinking that sucking up to Aunty Onenu and helping her publish a god-awful magazine will open doors for you, because it won’t.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was a little pause while the whole world sucked in its breath. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He heard Kaisha and Reg say something to him, but he couldn’t parse the words, and it was like all the oxygen in the room had been sucked out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over to the left, the waves of ocean were breathing, sucking down, then boiling back over the rock. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was sucked in immediately, and the wet brown stain it left behind paled and vanished almost as quickly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, right now, it’s the desert island trope that’s sucking me down. Would you help me out of here?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

"But somebody's going to." suck me off Eleanor looked back at the street. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It’s like someone sucked all the air from the room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There was so much money to be made that drug gangs rapidly expanded their ranks, sucking in some of our best friends, and turf wars became deadly, aided by the influx of sophisticated firearms. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

An eerie sucking noise followed Dri into the water as the surface healed itself where she had ripped a hole into it. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what happens if all my treatments don’t work and the spots keep growing, and more and more of the color gets sucked out of me until I have none left at all? How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Don’t puff out your cheeks. Pretend you’re sucking a lemon—this is called embouchure.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

His fingers clawed the bedclothes and he sucked in his breath, but somehow he managed not to scream. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, as she sucks on the milk, Jasmin loses her grip on the bottle. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He sucked his mouth full of water and then spat the water out forcefully in one large explosion, so that the entire shirt was sprayed with water. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ripped at the meat with his teeth, cracked the ribs to suck out the marrow from the bones, and shrugged at the mention of Jon Snow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She stood there and sucked on her knuckle and stared at me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We haven’t been able to see each other in three weeks now, which sucks for both of us. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Daddy would let me go in the colored store for a cold drink and sucking candy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Claire paused before saying, “Well, I mean, that sucks, but at least you’ll see your dad next Tuesday, right? It’s just a few days. Maybe you can spend more time with him next weekend.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He seemed so sincere, so committed to us, that I almost put aside my reservations and allowed myself to be sucked into his whirlwind of affection. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Gramps knelt to suck out the wound, but the boy said, “Here, I’ll do it.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Harry listened; a loud and oddly eerie noise was drifting toward them from out of the darkness: a muffled rumbling and sucking sound, as though an immense vacuum cleaner were moving along a riverbed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I don’t even watch it, ’cause our TV sucks. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She just waves him away, but she does not suck her teeth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A picture of Leslie being sucked into the cold water flashed across his brain. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I pause, suck in my breath, listening to my words echo in my brain. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His voice reminded Grace of the ocean, of sand being sucked back into the sea. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“They say you did not suck your mother’s breasts.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Trotter sucked in her breath and glowered down at her like Moses at the Israelites’ golden calf. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

East Texas clay mixes with plaster dust from the school; red sludge sucks at the soles of work boots. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Give her a biscuit to suck,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The rest had been cremated in the heat and their ashes sucked up by the swirling wind and blown away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I keep looking at those posters of the people who got killed and looking at my daddy, and my mouth goes so dry, it’s like trying to suck dirt. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Making my heart run wild, my skin turn to ice, my lungs unable to suck air. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Soon, he was wading through the water, the current sucking at his legs, pulling him forward. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m fine! I’m not doing anything. I don’t smoke crack, I don’t snort Ritalin or suck gas from whipped cream cans, and I don’t shoot up Drano.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And spidering into the pool are a dozen thick fire hoses—which seem to be sucking up water and depositing it into a series of tanker trucks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I would suck on chips of wood that I broke off my bed planks. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Kaede sucked in as much air as she could and dived down after her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I sat on our usual bench, prying the juicy red seeds out of the fruit and slowly sucking on them one by one, staring at the fleecy white clouds. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a good time to snuggle against her; and as long as the baby was sucking, she did not mind. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Mam turns toward the dead ashes in the fire and sucks at the last bit of goodness in the Woodbine butt caught between the brown thumb and the burnt middle finger. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It sucks that you have to live right next to her,” Sean said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They thudded against chairs, whirling their mustached runners, kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at hidden dust. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coughing stopped, and Morrie dropped back into the foam pillows and sucked in air. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

St. Moling didn’t want to suck the leper’s snot but he did and offered it up and praised God for the privilege. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Condemn it because it sends down stifling darkness, sucks the life from grass, and whitens the sapling leaf for trifling, fluttering friends? Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What will I do, sir? I have three children! One is still sucking my breast! How will I raise them alone?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a single deep breath, my lungs pushing painfully against the vise trapping my chest. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was a worse than bad taste in his mouth— as if all night he’d been sucking on his feet, he thought—and he had no toothbrush. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sucked in air when she applied the antiseptic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s right. After you blew your basketball career, you became a scum- sucking lawyer.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The exposure could change my life, and his too, could get us both out of Stokum, because he agreed with me, this place sucked, ha ha ha. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They mill about the holographic magic of Sagan, sucking down tonic from the rainbow waterfall after the news they’re going to spend the rest of their lives on this ship. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were always attended by the same impassive, silent Indian, who constantly sucked a green ball of coca leaves that was his chief sustenance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to suck in his gut to open the cash drawer. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Not only was the fire’s heat burning the firefighters, it was also creating a powerful updraft that sucked flaming embers and pieces of cloth and wood into the air. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced down with a smile at one of the infants who was industriously sucking at the milk. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Each night, in my dark corner of the hut, filled with shame and with quiet tears, I suck and chew the chicken bones until there is nothing left. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there are others, and this dame was one of them, who can drain off energy and joy, can suck pleasure dry and get no sustenance from it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not care,” says Leda, sucking the rubber loud and furious. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a deep breath, his lips drawing together to a point, until he looked more ferret than human. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s just not working. Why do I suck at this?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

But the old man sucked perseveringly at the bread between his toothless gums. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He used an explosion to drive the air out of a cylinder through a valve; then, when the hot gases cooled, a piston was sucked downwards, raising a weight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded like a backward recording—as if the words were being sucked into the vortex of his face rather than projected. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Lightning bursts in the sky, giving us a flash of the eerily brilliant gardens, then the darkness sucks it all back in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I forget I’m about to crash until this dark hole appears and starts sucking everything into it, and then I’m into the nothingness, a painless mini-death. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She sucked in sharply when she saw, almost immediately, that James was right. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We watch until it has all been sucked away and not the slightest wisp remains. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was always hanging around practice, sucking a Blow Pop. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Sure. And I strangled a wolf bare-handed last night,” the crusty old bartender retorted, sucking on his thumb because he had cut it a little on the second poptop. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took one and Max held the flame; he sucked the smoke deep into his lungs and discovered that he did not want it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then she closes her eyes, and sucks in the smoke slow and long like she’s making a wish. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The water had sucked away whatever warmth Hazel had given him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted to suck her finger, to lick honey from her nipple, to smear ice cream on her belly, as though it was not enough simply to lie bare skin to bare skin. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The banks rose up thick with weeds, and the water seemed to suck in the sun rather than reflect it. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I jerked away, sucking in a harsh breath. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She sucked in a loud breath and walked over, stopping a foot in front of me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

One Gobstopper would provide about an hour’s worth of non-stop sucking and if you took it out of your mouth and inspected it every five minutes or so, you would find it had changed colour. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the box Patrolman Mancuso found two withered pieces of doughnut out of which, judging by their moist edges, the jelly had been sucked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sucking on her candy and thinking hard. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed the gray walls seemed to suck up the light and destroy it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s trying to discourage him nicely, but what sucks is that he’s practically forcing her to hurt him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was like listening to a cartoon character talk while sucking helium and he was only really hearing every third word. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If little Alphie gets tired and cranky and cries Uncle Pa pulls his shirt back from his chest and tells him, Here, have a suck of diddy momma. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He walked to the trough and took a long drink of slops, sucking in the milk hungrily and chewing the popover. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Alex rolls his eyes, ready to snark, except Henry sucks two fingers into his mouth, very effectively shutting him the hell up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Miss Mallory sucked in her breath at the large woman in the chef’s hat who was too busy ma'ammg her to listen to what she had to say. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“They suck blood from the sick and...pass on some of that blood when they bite a healthy person. Like a mad dog that bites a man and drives the man mad.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Bessie sucked in her breath deeply, about to scream; but Bigger gripped her arm so hard that she bent halfway over and moaned. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A swirling vortex had opened in the center of the game’s monitor, and it was sucking in bits of trash, paper cups, bowling shoes—everything that wasn’t nailed down. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It relinquished its grip with a sickly sucking sound. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A distant, faded memory of sucking on pennies as a kid popped into his head. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guys with good builds swaggered among the blankets and umbrellas, slowing down and sucking in their stomachs whenever they passed girls. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it can rain frogs if they get sucked up in a storm and they plop down on top of your head. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made our way through the crowd, like a small boat cutting through a storm, unsure if we’d be sucked in or stay afloat. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a breath under the snake’s weight, trying to keep calm. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But it was hard to sit and watch something suck my blood. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way to the side, the mud sucking at their boots, where a small metal ladder covered in chipped green paint hung. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I suck it up, literally suck it up by taking a deep breath, and put the boots on the table. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Philbert sucks in his breath like I just said a curse word, which I actually have been somewhat careful not to do in front of him. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found her pigging out at an overturned hot dog stand while the owner was curled up on the sidewalk, sucking his thumb. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Knowing that he’d been angry enough to think that way sucked, but it didn’t make it any less true. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was as if all the air in my body had been instantly sucked away. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And then he’s just going to suck it up and do it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

On this circle the old man could see the fish’s eye and the two gray sucking fish that swam around him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At Volantis, you will have fresh tidings of Daenerys, we must hope,” he said, as he sucked one from its shell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Enrique knows he could slip, fall between them, and be sucked under. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeka was as good as her mother, anyway, since it was Aunty Ifeka’s breasts that she and Kainene had sucked when their mother’s dried up soon after they were born. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I suck my teeth, though I’m still smiling. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

As he stood there, bent over and sucking wind, he thought about Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He's still sucking his meals through a straw. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Whoever wrote that gross thing on her geography book had written on her history book, too. suck me off it said in ugly blue letters. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It’s like little Agnes sucking her thumb, she scolded herself, but she didn’t stop. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked and paddled, doing my best to tread water as I sucked down air, and looked around in confusion. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My toes curl inside my sneakers, trying to grip the floor so I won’t get sucked out the window. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear my breath sucking in through the filters and hissing out through the mask’s exhaust ports. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilate sucked a peach stone and her face was dark and still with the memory of how she was “cut off” so early from other people. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suck in a long breath, praying that he’ll say yes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And his shout was sucked into the silence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cow moved, heavy as a camel, turned her head and began to lick the calf, covering its face with her tongue, and sucking up the mucus and blood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Aaron’s cry faded to a whimper, and he sucked on his bottle a little. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She felt like she couldn’t get a breath, and she sucked at the air as her arms and legs roiled between burning and numbness. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

His meaty hands barely touch my waist, but I suck in as deep as I can. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It sucks how I didn’t dream, but no nightmares either. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Going down to the Collaborative Classroom, I was afraid that our whole class would act as the invasive species, sucking up all the happiness with our sour attitudes. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I stop sucking my sleeve but I’ll go back to it later when she forgets because I’m persistent. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, alone in my bed, I tried sucking a knuckle of my finger and pretending it was her mouth. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It softened, and she sucked in a breath. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She sucked in a big breath and said, “Perhaps it would be best not to talk about these things, Christopher.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dying would suck, but my crewmates dying would be way worse. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must really suck being you, Skiffy. How do you stand it?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That guy is staring over here,” I say, sucking then blowing out minty air for my personal pleasure. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Watching my sister suckle filled me with hatred, and my hot head thought of forcibly wrenching her away from my mother’s lap and sucking the succulent gourd of milk myself. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me laugh now that I thought my life sucked before. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The walk-in freezer door sucks the frosty air out into the kitchen hall when it opens. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You think it’s a joke, do you? You think that sucking my boy up into your Fudge Room like that is just one great big colossal joke?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

All he’d do was hang with that hind leg and let out one shrill shriek after another as fast as he could suck in a breath. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could taste the pale green sweetness of the blade of wheat, stripped and sucked between my teeth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shall bind my leg at the calf and then I shall remove my boot and make a cross-shaped incision in the place where I was bitten, and I shall suck out the serpent's venom. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ink shone brightly on the paper for a second and then, as though it was being sucked into the page, vanished. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But they’d learned the hard way that funerals were expensive, that hiring lawyers was even worse, that when you lost a loved one, it sucked your finances dry. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His eyes lidded with hopefulness, he rolled towards her, his body making a sucking sound as it unglued itself from the bare mattress. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Goober heard a weird sound, almost as if the class had sucked in its breath all at once. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also understood that she expected me to suck up my pride and do what was best for the family, as my father had done. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Would he suck out my soul and incinerate me? Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And the bumpkin stood it humbly, blubbering a little and sucking his teeth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Why don’t you try clasping your hands together or putting your hands in your pockets and squeezing them into fists or one of the other things we’ve talked about instead of sucking your sleeve? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a good loud scream, and I sucked in air, preparing to use it, but my throat was so dry I wasn’t sure how much volume I could manage. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

On either side was sand that could suck down half the car before we could even get out. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then Kat and Kropp seize the masterpiece—the big dish with the brown, roasted sucking pigs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shouldn’t have been able to fit inside those human-sized doors, but as the Cyclopes got close, their bodies distorted and shrank, the Doors of Death sucking them inside. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a crowd lined up behind them, twisting and turning their heads and sucking their teeth, waiting to leave. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The blankets stand ready, the small tub for bathing, the bowl of ice for Janine to suck. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to my granddaddy, Jacksons don’t cry—we suck it up and deal with it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Lice squat and suck and we can see our blood through their skins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Ivan sucked in a high gasp and clutched at his arm. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

People were always offering him jobs, he’d explain, but he wasn’t interested in work for hire, in saluting and sucking up and brownnosing and taking orders. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the anger was sucked away in her wake, and it left a void. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He bounded up the steps, sucking his breath in sharply at each lift of his knees. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and suck hard, savoring the cool flavor. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was like some kind of Star Wars alien creature with invisible tentacles that sucked your thoughts out of your brain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He held the boy and bent to hear the labored suck of air. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

"Love her to death, now, but when we were kids—" Officer Ken sucked in his breath and shook his head again. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He had sucked all the bones, and he imagined that the taste of Olanna’s mouth was in his as he started to wash the dishes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For her it’s blue, watercolor, not this red of mine that sucks in heat and blazes with it at the same time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every four or five steps I’d have to stop, lean against the rope, and suck desperately at the thin, bitter air, searing my lungs in the process. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The gnome had finally managed to extricate his worm and was now sucking on it happily, leaning against the bottommost branches of the rhododendron bush. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her head grew light as she gratefully sucked it down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The woman sucks her teeth and marches down the hall, her heels smacking on the tile floor. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away by the beautiful blue sky. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Liza sat with Cathy just enough to come to the conclusion that she was a sensible girl who didn’t talk very much or try to teach her grandmother to suck eggs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As they bounced off each other they lost their grips on the rope, and it was sucked into the Mr. Flux cyclone, which spun in such a blur he was more like wind than man. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The resin was sold wrapped in waxy paper, like a sucking candy or a toffee. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Well . . . that sucks. I don’t suppose you’d cut it out, then, if we asked nicely?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And they suck the spirit from the room. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

When his back hit his seat, he sucked in his breath. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I sucked my bottom lip so that I wouldn’t smile. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was certain that, if I popped it, the implosion would suck me, my family, and our whole house into a singularity we’d never escape. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I should be glad that his life sucks, maybe worse than mine, even though he’s a prince of Faerie and a horrible jerk and probably going to live forever. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They are heavy, though, and I feel the air being sucked out of my lungs. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After, he kisses Henry’s mouth fiercely, pushes his fingers deep into Henry’s hair, sucks the air out of him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes it still sucks that Dad decided to pack up and move just to run for the seat in California.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket, a thumb to suck, a skirt to hold. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bran's bowels went to water as the Greatjon struggled to rise, sucking at the red stumps of fingers . . . but then, astonishingly, the huge man laughed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The movie you’d been waiting to watch for months sucked when it finally came to theaters. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I put the edge of the collar into my mouth and sucked the starch away. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can see how that would suck. I had no idea. Look, I’ll leave. I’ll go back home, and he’ll have to reassign you. Maybe you can be in a group of three with someone.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I seize up a sleeping man, tear at him hungrily, bite through his bone-locks and suck hot, slippery blood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like Ronnie sucked up all the air when he talked, so fast, so much, and what he said. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had some explanatory pictures next to their glass cage that showed a couple of bats sucking the blood out of a horse’s neck while the horse was sleeping. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I suck my sleeve but I can’t help moaning even though I’m not supposed to. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat crouched over, on the doorstep of her cabin, sucking on an empty clay pipe. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel sucked in her breath involuntarily, bringing in a blast of cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And which totally sucked because it meant he would read the rest of the comic during school, and have something lame like Rom out on the way home. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You were hiding from me, Mateo. I always wanted to stumble into someone like you and it sucks that I had to find you through a stupid app.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We sat in silence, except for the sound of Sabrina’s satisfied hums as she sucked on her bottle. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Putting two cigarettes in his mouth, he lights one, the other, then sucks on them both. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When my legs were burning to their limit and my lungs were sucking at the thin mountain air and my knees were shaking and weak, I stopped for my first rest. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I suck in a deep breath and let it out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a large breath and looked at his wide, brown eyes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I popped it into my mouth, sucking for whatever marrow was inside it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You boil ’em and then suck the heads out,” she said excitedly. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He would nibble and suck at it to get every last shred, making it last for hours. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What came out was a teeny-weeny, old, old, old woman that looked just like Momma would if someone shrank her down about five sizes and sucked all the juice out of her! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will never throw rose petals to anybody,” I said, and then I broke down, the kind of crying where you’re sucking air and making heaving sounds like a person drowning. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie cowered next to him, her arms over her head, listening to the hideous rattle of the gunner sucking air into blood-filled lungs. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then I’d go through the refrigerator like a vacuum cleaner, sucking in whatever there was. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He set about sucking the other cheek out. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I was as suck as you, I’d drown myself. Oh wait, you already did that.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Time for Finn to suck it all back in. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She sucked in a gust of searing air. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My eyes wouldn’t focus, and my mind felt as if it were being sucked down into a whirlpool of red and white swirling blotches. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And down I went, sucked back into the body like water down a drain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked on his nummer, the rubber pacifier his mother had just begun to tell him that he was getting too old for. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Dodgeball today! he yells, and I start sucking on my sleeve. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A giant sucking sound filled the clearing, like air rushing toward a hole. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

As it was, his stomach tried to stay behind in Greece and all the air was sucked out of his lungs. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The word they say with pursed lips, like they’ve sucked on a lemon. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He sucked his cigarette; he saw her looking at him, her black eyes wide with eager interest. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He hauls me from the suck of the waves. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite my best intentions I'm about to be sucked into some kind of high drama. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You don’t suck, you just...you are really stubborn, for a kid who's never been outside Pittsburgh.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. School really sucks sometimes, doesn’t it?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I turned around, my shirt pulled off the seat with a sucking smack. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Then she put her mouth to a small hole near one end of the shuttle and sucked out the end of the weft thread. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, that’s not the only reason I’m being nice. I also wanted to hang out more. This summer kind of sucked before you got here.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d wager a guess that if the kayak sank anywhere near that sandbar, it got sucked into that hole.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He felt himself being hurled forward, slammed into something, then sucked back again. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She slowly lowered herself onto the cushions, sucking air through her teeth in short bursts until she sat next to me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She sucks in a stray chunk of hair and then blows it out. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Chubs said, sucking all of this down eagerly. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I sucked in my stomach, walked slow to make sure nothing jiggled, and tugged down on my shirt, like I could really hide my extra pounds under there. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I tried everywhere. The relief centers are empty. I saw a grown man sitting on the floor in front of one building and sucking his thumb,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If they were sucked into the center of the whirling wind-top there wasn’t a ghost of a chance. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reed sucked in a long breath and tapped his forefinger on the table. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

For two days I tried to wrestle meaning from the textbook’s dense passages, but terms like “civic humanism” and “the Scottish Enlightenment” dotted the page like black holes, sucking all the other words into them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The wave sucked us up to its ridge and then rolled away, right underneath us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That sucks. Hamburgers are the best,” someone would say. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sucked through the straw and my mouth filled with the sweet, blended fruit. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then she lit a cigarette and sucked on it so hard for so long that I thought the entire thing might burn off in one drag. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Also, in between coughing fits, she took to sucking on one or the other of Edward’s ears. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

He was out in the light and air while they were being sucked down to death, and they were down there because he was up here. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She blows a black bubble and sucks it back into her mouth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked in his lips and attempted to bow instead. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was this raw-meat sucking sound as I tore my sweats and boxers down over my feet. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, friends say, migrants are killed when whirlpools suck them under. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Going to the bathroom at school just plain sucks. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

But when he came in earshot he heard the trampling roar of sea on rock, where combers, rising shoreward, thudded down on the sucking ebb—all sheeted with salt foam. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pay me back by making up with Lydia. It sucks for me when you guys are mad at each other.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When I open the door, she’s standing there doing the potty dance, sucking on her fingers. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy took the box, pulled the lid off and both him and me sucked in air like we got dunked in a barrel of cold water. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But after he sucked on his leaf, he spit it out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z