The baby simmered down immediately, happily sucking away.
Capitalism, Marx had argued, was a meaning-vampire, sucking away lives.
"I turn around, and there are Joe and Malcolm sucking away at it.
"With the existing base structure," Mr. Santorum said, "we're just sucking away too many resources".
For one thing, they are sucking away money: banking deposits fell by one trillion yuan in January.
He pulled a candy bar from his shirt pocket and began sucking away at the chocolate coating.
Politicians in rural councils around Birmingham complain that the city is sucking away social workers by paying more.
But now he thinks that both wars are sucking away lives and money, reaping only futility, and that he was silly about the fries.
Globalization and the information technology revolution are sucking away jobs; the jobs that remain demand levels of education that the country is doing a poor job providing.
Hope's agent Louis Shurr once said, brutally, to a new Hope publicist, "Our mission in life is to keep all news about fucking and sucking away from Dolores".
Chad has endured several rebellions in recent years, sucking away resources from wildlife and creating instability along the Sudanese border, which allowed hordes of poachers to pour across.
