suck-up

The sea is so high that the waves do not break at all; they thump against the rough stone wall and suck up the weedy, dripping steps.

Depression in a family can suck up all the energy of a household, turning a home into a black hole of swirling negative emotions.

Those pipes. . . suck up the chocolate and carry it away all over the factory. Thousands of gallons an hour.

So far, American manufacturers have had to suck up most of the increase in the prices of their raw materials, with predictable consequences.

A whirlwind is small in size and may suck up sand and dust as it moves over the surface of the Earth.

There wasn't a Hoover in the world big enough to suck up all that shit.

Or they suck up pathogens, sort of vacuum up pathogens, and then don't transmit them again.

We encourage you to try as many as you can, just don't suck up.

The cleverest students can suck up as much knowledge as you can give them.

The world is in for a tough time if its second-largest economy continues to suck up so much demand.

Never use a vacuum to suck up water or to vacuum a wet animal.

Spiders cannot eat solid food. Instead, they pump digestive fluids into their prey, then suck up the dissolved body parts.

If you want to suck up to you teacher, the first thing you should do is to have perfect attendance unless you have an excused absent.

You only know how to suck up to your boss to get a raise, you giant brown nose!

I despise toadies who suck up to their bosses; they are generally the same people who bully their subordinates.

By using these enzymes, and their gnashing fangs, the spiders liquefy their prey's bodies and suck up the resulting fluid.

Globalisation allowed the US to suck up the savings of the rest of the world and consume more than it produced.

Sometimes the very strong winds suck up the animals from lakes and rivers ang then throw them onto the ground. Later on, with the rain.

Officials say the thief cut a small hole in the store's window and then used a vacuum cleaner to suck up the goods.

What they had to do at Brookhaven was drill monitoring wells and suck up the water.

The heavier bodied base of the machine often remains still while the long hose moves around to suck up dirt.

Which surgeon are we having to suck up to today?

I'd spend every spare minute following up on every single media request - I'd probably even hire a PR firm to suck up some more attention.

Storms, hail or lightning can kill birds while tornadoes or waterspouts may suck up small fish or frogs and drop them far away.

The nutrients feed algal blooms, which suck up the oxygen in the water.

Bad move. I accidentally suck up one of the girl's hair bobbles and it gets stuck in the machine.

If we are willing to suck up to the organ grinder, it is hypocritical to keep the monkey in prison.

Another way would be growing algae in the ocean to suck up carbon dioxide.

They suck up to anyone with money.

Sperm whale poop helps fertilize algae, which in turn suck up carbon dioxide via photosynthesis.

Air is transparent to infrared so Earth's atmosphere won't suck up energy from the beam before it reaches the ground.

Robotic geologists are puttering around on Mars, little Roomba vacuums suck up dirt in the home.

The practice in most African and some Asian cities is for private lorries to suck up human waste and dump it in rivers.

On average, they create 47 percent more pollution than standard-sized cars, and they suck up gasoline like it's going out of style.

Chatman's research shows there's no limit to the 'suck up till you die' approach to authority.

Who better to unclog sewers or suck up nuclear waste than these remarkable machines?

Even as the waters rise, many coasts will be sinking because of the subsidence that follows as cities suck up groundwater.

You're such a big suck-up, did your boss give you one day off?

Grabbing some groceries and other household items can suck up your time if you go a few times per week.

The secret is hydrogels, powerfully absorbent polymers that can suck up hundreds of times their weight in water.

Air elementals create whirlwinds to suck up their enemies and also blind them with dust storms.

Raising money has a mysterious capacity to suck up all your attention.

Some Little Englanders accuse the Chinese of seeking to suck up UK expertise and sell it back via low-priced products.

Asian carp were imported to the southern U. S. in the 1970s to suck up scum from catfish ponds.

Silver Lining's floating machines can suck up ten tons of water per second.

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

These plants suck up moisture from the soil.

Thermal plants suck up nearly as much electricity, but also need large amounts of steam.

Don't suck up. Bosses can see right through it, and it won't win you any points with your new colleagues.

suck Plants suck up moisture from the soil.

The suck up resources but give nothing, such as technology, produce (aside from rice) or REAL manufacturing in return.

A large desalination plant can suck up enough electricity in one year to power more than 30, 000 homes.

and you are a major-league suck-up.

The first thing I hate about Asians in America is how so many of them want to suck up to whites.

I have a holiday and so on, must be father and mother to Chongqing to suck up a!

These are people who always seem to be in crisis and suck up large amounts of “

And now I suck up to the pale moonlight

suck up moisture from the earth

Now don't you ever think that I would suck up to you