suck in
Example Sentences
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It needs to suck in the equivalent of an Olympic swimming pool worth of water every few seconds to keep it cool.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Whooping cough is named for the high-pitched whoop that can be heard as patients suck in air after coughing.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024
The researchers calculated that a similar closed system, where the pump is enclosed and uses a tube to suck in water and particles, would require high energy inputs to operate.
From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023
Over the past ten years it has developed machines to suck in the air from the atmosphere that filter and trap the carbon dioxide molecules.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2023
“But—but what if this whole place”—I had to suck in air again—“what if everything is inside my head? East Shoal and Scarlet and this bridge and you—what if you’re not real because nothing is real?”
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
