Sentence examples for suction from inspiring English sources

Accompanied by a nurse and his mother, this patient is on a ventilator with suction equipment.

The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss.

Without enough suction more oil than necessary would continue to leak out; too much and it will let in water which will make the formation of those pesky hydrates more likely.

All are based on conveyor belts and use commercial robots equipped with suction cups to handle small objects.

When demand falls, (as in the current recession) fewer come, and many go home.In the medium term, trying to secure the border before you address immigration reform is like trying to stop dust flying into your vacuum cleaner without turning off the suction.

General Electric was promoting all manner of newfangled equipment, including the electric refrigerator, automatic clothes washer, pop-up toaster, electric coffee percolator, electric iron and automatic suction sweeper.

For cases like this the system will have a range of watertight structures called caissons, which are based on the suction-pile technology used to emplace deep-sea moorings and foundations.A giant sucking soundA suction pile is open at one end.

They rely on machine vision to determine when individual berries are ripe, cutting them from the plant and holding them with a gentle suction as they transfer them to a conveyor belt or basket.

His view echoes that of the business secretary, Vince Cable, who commented last year that London is "becoming a giant suction machine draining the life out of the rest of the country".

The caisson could not simply be capped, because the oil pressure would blow its suction pile out of the sea floor.Whether or not a caisson was used, the oil from the containment assembly would then pass through a manifold a sort of switching yard for pipes to one or more floating risers leading to the surface and held vertical by buoys.

This shape suggests a suction mechanism, but suction relies on air pressure and gecko feet are known to stick to walls even in a vacuum.