Sentence examples for instead of sucking from inspiring English sources

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It is as if the mud, instead of sucking them down, were rejecting them.

Then we thought: Why not add air inside instead of sucking it out?

People would sit with their backs straight and sip their soup instead of sucking it from the spoon.

A perverse Hoover, discarded months earlier because it was determined to perform the opposite of every vacuum's objective: spewing out dust instead of sucking it in.

They can reduce the demand for fertilisers by allowing plants to pluck the nitrogen they need to make proteins directly from the air instead of sucking it from the soil.

He emphasized the theory's implication that the first forms of life created their own vital chemicals instead of sucking them in from the outside, as implied in the Miller version.

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"Instead of constantly sucking up to a group of people who will never vote for you," Coulter continued, presumably referring to Hispanics, "how about appealing to the other voters who are just going to stay home and say 'screw you.'".

"Instead of 'It sucks' you could say, 'It doesn't speak to me.'" October 1 , 2015

Against all odds, instead of getting sucked in, through, and out the other end, he blows up the engine, which cuts out, and he emerges the way he went.

Rainwater – instead of being sucked up by plants, evaporating, or filtering through the ground back to rivers and lakes – was suddenly forced to slide over pavements and roads into drains, pipes and sewers.

Whereas mainstream developers would concentrate on building in honeypot areas around Edinburgh and Glasgow, Owenstown will create quality housing in an area that would otherwise continue to decline, it is claimed".Surplus funds will be reinvested into the community instead of being sucked out by property developers or landowners as profit," Mr Nicol said.

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