Sucking Sentence Examples

The thumb went to her mouth and she started sucking it vigorously as she eyed the newcomer suspiciously.

I've been as nervous as a thumb sucking toddler.

She paused, sucking in a deep breath, and then threw her hands in the air in defeat.

In insects whose mouths are adapted for sucking and piercing, remarkable modifications may occur.

The world exploded into life, sucking the air from her lungs and drenching her.

She stood on the front porch, puffing on her cigarette as if sucking in a lung full of chemicals might somehow help matters.

While the majority of the Thysanoptera are thus vegetarian in their diet, and are frequently injurious in farm and garden, some species, at least occasionally, adopt a predaceous habit, killing aphids and small mites (so-called "red-spiders") and sucking their juices.

Another way in which a demon is held to cause disease is by introducing itself into the patient's body and sucking his blood; the Malays believe that a woman who dies in childbirth becomes a langsuir and sucks the blood of children; victims of the lycanthrope are sometimes said to be done to death in the same way; and it is commonly believed in Africa that the wizard has the power of killing people in this way, probably with the aid of a familiar.

Finally, the cave became a resort of bears; the remains of 354 specimens, in all stages of growth, including even sucking cubs, being discovered.

The owners of adjacent lands assembled at the common boundary stone, and crowned their own side of the stone with garlands; an altar was set up and offerings of cakes, corn, honey and wine were made (later, a lamb or a sucking pig was sacrificed).

In the early autumn of 1751 La Mettrie, one of the king's parasites, and a man of much more talent than is generally allowed, horrified Voltaire by telling him that Frederick had in conversation applied to him (Voltaire) a proverb about "sucking the orange and flinging away its skin," and about the same time the dispute with Maupertuis, which had more than anything else to do with his exclusion from Prussia, came to a head.

It can be considerably shortened, the two vessels A and B brought more closely together, and the somewhat objectionable india-rubber tube be dispensed with, if we connect the air-space in B with an ordinary air pump, and by means of it do the greater part of the sucking and the whole of the lifting work.

Recently, shade-grown tobacco in some localities has suffered considerably from the attacks of small sucking insects known as thrips, which produce " white veins " in the leaf.

K, sucking Diptera, belonging to various families, but now by common consent restricted to those known to naturalists as Culicidae, or gnats.

They ingest the mucus and, to some extent, the blood of their host by the aid of a sucking pharynx through which the food passes into the bifurcated alimentary sac and its branched caeca.

Sucking out is dangerous!

The sucking tongue of the Hymenoptera has often been compared with the hypopharynx of other insects.

But the wings vary considerably in different families, and the most distinctive feature is the structure of the jaws, which form a beaklike organ with stylets adapted for piercing and sucking.

Several families of bugs are predaceous in habit, attacking other insects - often members of their own order - and sucking their juices.

The insect is fixed by this rostrum, which is inserted into the root of the vine for the purpose of sucking the sap. The abdomen consists of seven segments, and these as well as the anterior segments bear four rows of small tubercles on their dorsal surface.

Billwiller introduced the idea of sucking air into the flame at or just below the burner tip, and at this juncture the Naphey or Dolan burner was introduced in America, the principle employed being to use two small and widely separated jets instead of the two openings of the union jet burner, and to make each a minute bunsen, the acetylene dragging in from the base of the nipple enough air to surround and protect it while burning from contact with the steatite.

The inner surface of their cup-shaped mouth is armed with pointed teeth, with which they perforate the integuments of the fish attacked, scraping off particles of the flesh and sucking the blood.

The lacewing-flies (q.v.), however, of which there are two families, the Hemerobiidae and Chrysopidae, whose larvae feed on Aphids, sucking their juices, are represented in our fauna.

Their larvae resemble those of the lacewings, attacking scale-insects and sucking their juices.

The mouth is terminal or subterminal; there is a weak sucking pharynx situated behind the brain, and a long intestine lying along the medio-ventral body-cavity; it ends in a cloaca which receives the vasa deferentia in the male.

Biting and sucking insects have been found to carry the bacilli from one plant to another.

It is usually sent on the market in the form of sticks, which were at one time prepared by sucking the molten material up glass tubes; but the dangers to the workmen and other disadvantages of this method have led to its replacement by a continuous process, in which the phosphorus leaves the melting-pot for a pipe surrounded by water, in which it solidifies and can be removed as a continuous rod.

Hutton describes his specimens as sucking the juices of flies, which they had stuck down with their slime, and they have been observed in captivity to devour the entrails which have been removed from their fellows, and to eat raw sheep's liver.

She stopped, sucking her breath in sharply and glanced around.

It shouldn't have been flooding her like it was, as if someone there was feeding her while Darian seemed to be sucking it out of her, despite her attempt to restrain it.

The four ate with gusto and animated conversation, led by Fred O'Connor, who won the contest of sucking up the longest spaghetti strand without dribbling oil on his chin.

She latched onto the nipple, sucking so hard that air leaked between her lips and the nipple with a squeaky sound.

Its success is all down to a strange cultural predilection for what might be called "sucking tobacco."

The inward bend of the upper airstream is accompanied by a substantial drop in air pressure just above the disk, sucking it upward.

The transformed rice was resistant to sap sucking insects and to bacterial blight [17] .

I imagined they were responding to some report of a blocked drain, by sucking out the underground pipes along the road.

Allosuckling was only successful if the female's own fawn was already sucking.

No task on Friday, they've run out of coast, so they go in search of blood sucking fiends.

Morning Sickness - sucking on piece of crystallized ginger, drinking ginger ale or ginger tea will help relieve the nausea of morning sickness.

The problem actually stemmed from an infestation of scale, a sap sucking insect that attacks the plant.

Why the hell does she have to look at me like she's sucking lemons?

There is 3 gold sucking loaches also plus others that i cant remember the name to.

The water was high; it lapped the grill like a child sucking a lollipop, lovingly, longingly.

The act of sucking a lozenge, by itself, causes more saliva to be produced naturally.

He was busily sucking down some small black midge which had become trapped in a calm slick at the edge of the loch.

However, they all have mouthparts that are modified into a sucking beak.

The sucking mouthparts are barbed making fleas difficult to remove.

Big, thick-lipped mullet can also be seen here sucking at the algae on the ironwork.

The hood went cleanly and the air blast swept in, sucking his maps and other loose oddments out of the cockpit.

You can also make a sucking device with a modified retractable lead pencil.

He may be wearing a lot of aftershave, or have been sucking peppermint, to disguise the smell of alcohol.

In areas where the soil or fill beneath the building is highly permeable blowing can work better than sucking.

This acts like a vacuum cleaner, literally sucking the plate backward.

You left at 2.15 this morning sucking on a big fat Cuban and half in the bag favorite tipple?

While the majority of the Thysanoptera are thus vegetarian in their diet, and are frequently injurious in farm and garden, some species, at least occasionally, adopt a predaceous habit, killing aphids and small mites (so-called " red-spiders ") and sucking their juices.

The cross-section of the cars was made to conform approximately to the section of the tunnel, the idea being that each train would act like a piston in a cylinder, expelling in front of it a column of air, to be forced up the station shaft next ahead of the train, and sucking down a similar column through the station shaft just behind.

But the sight of Tydeus, cleaving open the skull of his dead enemy and sucking out his brains, so disgusted her that she left him to his fate.

A poet admires the bee sucking from the chalice of a flower and says it exists to suck the fragrance of flowers.

Red spider mites are sap sucking insects that can reduce the vigor of plants.

Aphids Small insects that feed by sucking the sap from plants.

Derision greeted a silent seduction scene, with sucking noises from the gallery whenever Novello kissed leading lady Francis Doble.

You left at 2.15 this morning sucking on a big fat Cuban and half in the bag Favorite tipple?

Turns out that the vacuum pump in the rear is blowing more than sucking.

However, it 's hard sucking up every remaining vestige of power in a country.

A pacifier can give your baby the extra sucking time that he might need, and this additional sucking is important for baby's early development.

In other words, your baby's sucking needs are met almost entirely by your breastfeeding him, and he does not receive any supplemental feedings.

Other reflexes, such as sucking, will be examined as well.

He acts like he is sucking on blankets at times, although he may be chewing on them.

Oh, good, I thought as I found myself, once again, spilled over the Laura Mercier counter, eyes voraciously sucking in the new Gold Digger collection with a greedy, have-to-have-it-now ferociousness.

Ticks are little blood sucking pests that can pinch a free meal from you or your pet and leave behind a nasty infection or disease for your tip.

These blood sucking insects may only be about two and a half millimeters long, but they pack a heck of a bite.

They damage plants by sucking, leaving behind curled leaf tips and edges that are crispy brown.

Make sure the fan is sucking air out of the room and not blowing air in by placing the fan in the window backwards.

Their voices are high-pitched and sound like Gilbert Godfrey sucking helium.

World of Warcraft, the massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG), is well-known for taking a gamer's free time and sucking it down into an endless tube.

It shifts control to a milk removal driven process, i.e., sucking stimulus.

It is an organ that actively produces milk due to the stimulus of the infant's sucking; the removal of milk from the breasts causes continued milk production.

Thumb sucking is the childhood habit of putting the thumb in the mouth for comfort or to relieve stress.

Ultrasound pictures of intrauterine life have even shown fetuses sucking their thumbs.

One way that infants explore their world is by putting objects in their mouths and sucking on them.

Thumb sucking appears to be a natural habit of children in all parts of the world.

Sucking the thumb is soothing for a small child, and many children continue this habit for comfort and security into the early school years.

Thumb sucking is most prevalent in children under two, and most children give up the habit on their own by age four.

Thumb sucking by itself is not a cause or symptom of physical or psychological problems.

Researchers speculate that boys receive stronger negative messages from parents and peers that thumb sucking is infantile and not acceptable.

Thumb sucking offers security to a child, but this behavior does not imply that the child is insecure.

Most children have some sort of self-comforting ritual that may involve sucking the thumb, fingers, or a pacifier, pulling or twisting their hair, or stroking or sucking a soft toy or blanket.

Some nineteenth-century physicians feared a variety of consequences from thumb sucking, such as weak moral character, and earlier generations of parents were advised to break this habit forcibly.

Modern doctors find few negative health effects of thumb sucking, even if prolonged, and parents are urged to let their children outgrow the habit on their own.

Thumb sucking may be more of a problem for the parent than the child, if the parent is unsettled by the behavior.

Weaning a young child from the habit before he or she is ready is usually difficult and may only prolong the thumb sucking.

Some children suck their thumbs before they are even born, and others begin sucking their thumbs soon after birth.

Thumb sucking is most common in children who are younger than two years old.

Many children stop sucking their thumbs by age three or four without any intervention.

Preschool children may begin to become embarrassed by their thumb sucking if the children with whom they interact do not suck their thumbs and make fun of them.

Even when they have stopped thumb sucking during the day, children may continue it as part of a nighttime falling sleep ritual.

Most children have stopped sucking their thumbs before they begin school, or else stop sucking shortly thereafter, usually in response to peer pressure.

If a school age child seems distressed about his or her thumb sucking, the parent may want to suggest ways in which they can work together to wean the child from the thumb.

If the child does not want to give up thumb sucking, the dentist should be consulted to ensure that it is not doing any damage to the alignment of the teeth.

There are a few cases where thumb sucking may become a problem.

Not all dentists agree, however, that thumb sucking is harmful to tooth development.

If a child's dentist sees evidence that thumb sucking is causing a particular problem, the child may need to be urged to quit.

The child can be given a sticker or small reward for a day spent without thumb sucking.

Parents should avoid negative pressure on children to stop sucking their thumbs; this habit is eventually outgrown by all children.

In extreme cases, some dentists can prescribe an oral device to alter the shape of the roof of the child's mouth, so that it is unpleasant for the child to continue sucking.

If a child has recently undergone any sort of trauma such as witnessing divorce, a pet's death, or family problems, treatment for thumb sucking should not be undertaken right away.

Parents tend to be more concerned with thumb sucking than is actually warranted.

Until the child is five or six, or there starts to be a problem with speech formation or teeth alignment, thumb sucking is not a problem.

If the child's teeth are becoming misaligned because of thumb sucking the dentist should be consulted.

If the thumb sucking is combined with other problems such as anxiety a doctor should be consulted.

They will sometimes revert to behaviors they had at a younger age, such as wetting the bed or thumb sucking.

Others will request permission to sleep with a stuffed animal or return to sucking their thumbs.

In some hypotonic infants, sucking is weak and in some cases not present at all.

Sucking on a Popsicle or sherbet may be soothing.

At this stage of development, children start to explore and understand the world around them by doing things like sucking, grasping, and crawling.

These reflexes, which are essential for a newborn's survival immediately after birth, include sucking, swallowing, blinking, urinating, hiccupping, and defecating.

Sucking reflex is triggered by placing a finger or the mother's nipple in the infant's mouth.

The neonate will suck on the finger or nipple forcefully and rhythmically and the sucking is coordinated with swallowing.

Many babies with fragile X syndrome may have trouble with sucking, and some experience digestive disorders that cause frequent gagging and vomiting.

A shaken baby may present one or more signs, including vomiting; difficulty breathing, sucking, swallowing, or making sounds; seizures; and altered consciousness.

It is suggested that thumb sucking, overuse of pacifiers, bottle feeding, and recurrent upper respiratory illnesses cause tongue thrusting.

Excessive interdental speech can also be related to mouth breathing and sucking habits.

Congenital myotonic dystrophy is marked by severe weakness, poor sucking and swallowing responses, respiratory difficulty, delayed motor development, and mental retardation.

Most newborns can focus on and follow moving objects, distinguish the pitch and volume of sound, see all colors and distinguish their hue and brightness, and start anticipating events, such as sucking at the sight of a nipple.

Babies with Edwards' syndrome generally have feeding problems related to difficulties in coordination of breathing, sucking, and swallowing.

They can also regress to behaviors such as thumb sucking, bed wetting, temper tantrums, and clinging to a favorite blanket or toy.

The fetus is able to swallow and make sucking motions.

The child's energy goes into sucking on a pacifier rather than crying.

As a child grows, a pacifier can be taken away, whereas it may be harder to discourage thumb sucking.

The advantage of thumb sucking is that babies can adjust sucking to the feel of their skin.

Some people believe that thumb sucking is an easier habit to break than pacifier use.

Large circular shields can obstruct an intensely sucking baby's nasal passages.

Pacifier use should not be terminated too soon or too abruptly since a baby may substitute thumb sucking or some other behavior such as hair pulling.

A two-year-old is much less likely to revert to thumb sucking.

It may be that pacifier use spreads infection or that intense sucking on pacifiers hinders proper functioning of the eustachian tube that normally keeps the middle ear open and clean.

Neither pacifier use nor thumb sucking is likely to interfere with early dental development.

Many dentists believe that neither pacifier use nor thumb sucking should continue once all of the baby teeth have erupted.

However, most children give up both pacifiers and thumb sucking long before they become social or dental concerns.

As infant botulism progresses, sucking and swallowing (thus eating) become difficult.

Eating olives or crackers or sucking on a lemon can calm the stomach by absorbing acid and excess fluid.

Lice are tiny, wingless insects with sucking mouthparts that feed on human blood and lay eggs on body hair or in clothing.

Head lice live and crawl on the scalp, sucking blood every three to six hours.

The sucking reflex is strong in all infants and should be encouraged in infants with facial clefts even if the sucking is inefficient, since the reflex seems to help the later development of speech.

Infants may have feeding problems and may grunt while sucking or feeding.

Sucking on a pacifier is another comfort.

A sign of healthy emotional development is the degree to which an infant learns to comfort him- or herself, either with the aid of an object such as a stuffed toy or blanket, or by certain patterns of behavior, such as sucking on a thumb.

In turn the infant responds with snuggling, babbling, smiling, sucking, and clinging.

Physical changes occur in the mother after birth, such as hormonal increases triggered by the infant licking or sucking her nipples and increased blood flow to her breasts when she hears the infant cry.

If the malocclusion is thought to be caused by the child sucking on fingers or a pacifier and the child is stopped early enough, the malocclusion may resolve spontaneously without treatment.

It may be minimized by controlling habits such as thumb sucking.

This hypotonia causes problems with sucking and eating so that infants with PWS may initially have problems gaining weight.

Most often, you will hear your baby swallowing audibly right after, eventually establishing a solid pattern of sucking and swallowing.

If your baby's sucking reflex hasn't fully developed, he will not be able to empty your breast sufficiently.

Most often, the cause of a baby's insufficient sucking reflex is prematurity.

Doing this will relax your baby and his/her sucking muscles.

Scandalously lascivious, a fourth image features Fox sucking on a cherry.

To win, Zack must do things he thought unspeakable before, such as show up on time, helping customers, and sucking up to the nerdy manager.

Chupacabra translates to goat-sucker, and the creature has the reputation of sucking the blood from farm and domesticated animals.

Sucking on ice cubes or drinking warm beverages can help, but be forewarned.

Have a dozen manuals sucking up space in a drawer in the kitchen?

You simply measure your waist at its smallest point without sucking in your stomach intentionally.

Pushing up the breasts and sucking in the stomach were the functions of the corselettes, and while probably not very comfortable, it helped women achieve the desired look of teeny tiny waistlines without sacrificing their bosoms.

Compression bodysuits, however, are descended from the relatively obscure men's corset of the Victorian era, which did wonders for sucking in an expanding midsection.

If your muscles are tired from "sucking it in" and your shape's still not looking much better from the effort, Spanx Shapewear's a good alternative.

Spanx underwear is your ticket to becoming suddenly slim, despite slacking on your diet-and without "sucking it in."

And no matter what, you don't want to spend the night sucking in your gut!

Some men bring her gifts while others sing songs for her, but perhaps the most stunning performance by one of the houseguests was the foot massage by one of the men that evolved into him sucking her toes with great exuberance.

Equipped with piercing mouthparts, it is the female mosquito that is a force to be reckoned with, as she possesses the blood sucking habits associated with the insect.

In addition, many people avoid being outside from dusk to dawn, when female mosquitoes are active and seeking their next blood sucking meal.

Then there were those where Darkyn was stripping off her skin and sucking her blood.

Closing her eyes, she leaned back, quickly sucking in a breath as his warm hands moved inside her dress and gently surrounded her waist.

She felt his fangs sink into her skin and heard him sucking out her lifeblood.

With the living shadow staring at her, the winter wind sucking the air from her lungs, and the prescriptions clenched in her hand, she'd never felt less a part of her world.

She nodded, sucking in air.

The tarantula cat was sucking up dirt and dust from the kitchen corners.

He prided himself on the fact that he had never killed a human by sucking them dry.

She left him in the coop with the chicken and marched across the yard to the house, her boots making sucking noises each time she lifted her foot from the mud.

The only sound was the sucking sound their boots made in the mud and the soothing sound of flowing water down at the creek.

Toby took the lead, and the demons, Death and Gabe disappeared as Katie rounded the corner of the palace.  The angel released her and raced into the palace and up a set of stairs.  They ascended several floors, until Katie was sucking wind bad enough to stop.  Toby didn't wait for her, and she stumbled forward.  The interior of the palace was unlit, and the darkness of evening crept into the hallways.

The infant stopped crying as soon as the bottle touched her lips, and started sucking the nipple.

The ground behind her made a sucking sound, and she scampered away, staring at the swirling earth.

Fire and ice ripped through her, sucking the air from her lungs.

A few minutes later, Dusty sat up suddenly, sucking in air and gazing around him wildly.

Rissa met his gaze, sucking in a deep breath.

She nodded, sucking in deep breaths.

Sucking up the thoughts of those around him, Xander was pissed he wasn't able to determine what hers were.

It is found in the allantoic liquid of the cow, and in the urine of sucking calves.

The actual piercing organs are the mandibles, while the upper lip or labrum forms a sucking tube.

Small leeches taken into the mouth with drinking-water may give rise to serious symptoms by attaching themselves to the fauces and neighbouring parts and thence sucking blood.

Aphides often ruin whole crops of fruit, corn, hops, &c., by sucking out the sap, and not only check growth, but may even entail the death of the plant.

The long sucking " tongue " of bees is probably a modification of the ligula.

Mandibles absent in imago, very exceptionally present in pupa; first maxillae nearly always without laciniae and often without palps, or only with vestigial palps, their galeae elongated and grooved inwardly so as to form a sucking trunk.

Again, from different points of the cortex the assunIption of the requisite positions of the tongue, lips, cheeks, palate and epiglottis, as components in the act of sucking, can be provoked singly.

She kept spelling "dog--baby" and pointing to her five fingers one after another, and sucking them.

Sucking on popsicles or drinking warm broth can help.

The Kirby G-Five also has a Kevlar fan, and this gives it remarkable sucking power, which can suck up bullets and coins if needed.