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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sucking like" is correct and can be used in written English
It is a colloquial expression that is often used to describe something being sucked in a strong or vigorous way. Example: The vacuum cleaner was sucking like a tornado, picking up every speck of dust on the carpet.
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Non-nutritive sucking like pacifier, digit or dummy sucking has often been implicated as an important etiologic factor in the development of posterior crossbites [7].
And then, three years later, Ben was in my arms, and sucking like a tiny piranha at my breast.
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Fish and something that you need to suck, like asparagus.
All the noise on the island seemed to have been sucked like some kind of aural black hole into Grenville, a fishing town just up the coast.
I asked, "How did the fire start?" and Ruth said, slowly, each word sucked like a pebble in the mouth, "Lightning.
16 Graffiti Bridge 1990 ★★★ OK, so the film (a sort-of sequel to Purple Rain) sucked like a Dyson, but with "Thieves In The Temple" and "Question Of U" on the soundtrack, that could be forgiven.
Consider Cephalon's second-biggest drug, Actiq, a narcotic lozenge on a stick that is sucked like a lollipop, giving quick, temporary relief from the sharp spikes of pain that some cancer patients suffer despite taking other narcotics.
Apple sucks like that sometimes.
"U suck like 'journalist,'" she said during our chat.
That day will suck, like 26 to 123percentt worse than other days.
It was the sports media economy working at peak effectiveness, and it sucked like crazy.
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