During the bubble period, BusinessWeek was totally sucked in by the dot-commers. |
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They continued until they got to the front desk where the receptionist gave them suckers, which they sucked on noisily. |
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Victims are sucked down by quicksands and drowned by the tides that can race in faster than a man can run. |
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This approach is rational and time-saving for both readers and reporters who want to avoid being sucked down political rabbit holes. |
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And then, when the river was nearly sucked dry, they lined it with railroad tracks and freight yards and dumped industrial waste into its bed. |
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Our burgers arrived and I picked up a fry, placed it between my teeth, and wetly sucked the traces of salt and seasoning from my fingers. |
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Every year a lot of new people are sucked into the media occupations, while at the same time a lot of people leave. |
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They pulled me, poked me, sucked blood out of me, pumped drugs into me, and you know what? They still couldn't find anything wrong with me. |
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Carrying the heat energy away, the warmer refrigerant vapour is sucked back into the compressor and the cycle begins again. |
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By focusing on simpler questions, economists escape getting sucked into the labyrinthine intricacies of the human brain. |
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The morning was one out of the box, and I sucked in great lungfuls of mountain air. |
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That sucked any remaining freshness from the Broncos' defense, which caved under Tomlinson's relentless talent. |
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The Mafia's infiltration of every level of official life diverted much-needed funds and sucked the city dry of its life force. |
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The past few days, filled with activity, have sucked the very life force from my body. |
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The rubberized seal around the hatch began to hiss as air from the corridor was sucked inside. |
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Then I didn't have the strength to do anything but hook my arm through a rung and hold on while I sucked air and my lungs ached. |
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She was so sucked into her own lies she took the abuse and accepted it as a way of life. |
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He didn't fight, didn't even scream as the icy water flooded in and he was sucked down into the maelstrom. |
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During sandstorms, sand is sucked into engines, where it wreaks havoc on moving parts, adding years of wear and tear in mere months. |
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As the wood is cut, the heaviest sawdust is sucked down into the small bag. |
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I've read horrifying stories of what happens when a child is aborted, babies being torn to pieces inside the womb, then sucked out, etc etc. |
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The first one was a sci-fi crossed with an action thriller, and we both agreed that it sucked. |
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I sucked in a breath and bolted upright, scooting back in my bed till my back hit the headboard and I couldn't go any further. |
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If careful cleaning and hygiene has not helped you may be prescribed medicated tablets or lozenges, which should be sucked slowly. |
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I'm glad it distances me because I'd rather not be sucked into a movie that had it's own paths for me to go down. |
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Within seconds he'd anaesthetised my entire mouth and sucked on a few mouthfuls of nitrous oxide. |
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I managed a quick smile before letting my jaw drop as I greedily sucked in air. |
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My brow burned, and I sucked a deep breath, sending the oxygen to my muscles. |
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As the cowboy turned in their direction, the ladies all sucked in their breath simultaneously. |
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The pressure was immediately released from his mouth and he sucked in a gulp of air. |
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I put my face kiss-close to his and sucked the breath from his mouth like it was nitrous oxide. |
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Back outside, I sucked the air into my all-new mouth, and wondered how long I could delay my return appointment. |
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Tweed jackets, moleskins, wool board ties, pipes gently being sucked on, aromatic smoke rising over the grandstand. |
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If this is not possible, it must be sucked on for 30 minutes before throwing it away. |
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Lozenges should be sucked on and moved side to side until it is dissolved, just like hard candy or a cough drop. |
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He sucked on another cigarette, blowing the smoke out through his nose in little puffs. |
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I put the cut to my mouth, and sucked the blood from it until it wouldn't bleed any longer. |
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Air can be sucked out of the container, creating a vacuum, while the baby's head remains outside the ventilator. |
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Before she had a chance to recover, the craft hit another rock and split apart, and Miri was sucked under the surface. |
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Had I been sucked into a vacuous, unappreciative, homogenous culture that moved at breakneck speed? |
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Or maybe she was sucked into a maelstrom of organised crime, from which only he could extricate her. |
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As he tries to find out what happened, he is sucked into a world of gunmen and no-go garrisons, brutalities and betrayals. |
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Framed for murder in Berlin, he is soon sucked into a battle with an unknown enemy that wants him dead. |
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I was trapped, and I was sucked into a way of life that I now realise was wrong. |
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I finished high school that June and once exams and graduation was complete, I was sucked into the wedding vortex. |
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We need to go into the direction that we have identified, not into the direction that we are sucked into. |
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Either way, many students are sucked into the workforce at entry-level posts, grumbling that they're overqualified and underpaid. |
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Then professionalism came in a rush, and the next thing is you are sucked into it. |
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He knows anyone can read his face like a book and hates the fact that he's always sucked into telling a secret. |
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It completely sucked having science as a first hour class, but did that room also have to be 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the school? |
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The only thing that sucked was having to take turns with my brother and sister. |
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I sucked it up, however, complimented her on her gown, and wished her and her friends a fun evening. |
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He sucked in his breath through his teeth, biting down hard to try and suppress the throbbing left behind by a revolver's bullet's passage. |
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Farmers' savings were sucked away into repairing buildings, clearing woods, draining marshes, and buying animals. |
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She stopped smiling and looked at him with a twisted mouth, like she'd just sucked on a lemon. |
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He sucked out their very essence, and they died instantly, leaving just empty shells of bodies behind. |
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A sherbet powder was produced which could either be made into a fizzy drink, or sucked into the mouth, where it would likewise fizz. |
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The Kiwi scrapper was sucked in big time, bit on Gilchrist's comments and was out LBW next ball. |
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I distributed them equally between my four pockets, and sucked them turn and turn about. |
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As our party walked single file along a narrow path, one careless step left me being sucked waist deep into mud. |
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There was nothing to do but snowboard and skateboard, but skating sucked because it was rough everywhere. |
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It was Ally that we really wanted to punch, but poor old Bridget just got sucked along in Ally's slipstream. |
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Sweden is fighting to end a European ban on snus, a moist tobacco popular across Scandinavia that is sucked rather than chewed or smoked. |
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Sophia felt as if someone had just sucked out all breathable air from the room. |
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A stump grinder was on hand, and two high-powered vacuums sucked up leaves. |
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Winston fitted a nib into the penholder and sucked it to get the grease off. |
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There is always a risk of getting sucked into the firestorm, so no comment is often a judicious approach. |
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But they obviously liked it, and Mark spits the dummy, says all the performances sucked, and storms off. |
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After reading it, I plan to become more vocal, rather than letting myself be persuaded or sucked in by the medical model of childbirth! |
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I watched a ton of television as a kid, so I have a bad habit of getting sucked into shows for hours. |
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He didn't howl in pain, only sucked in his breath while his face turned a shade of pasty oatmeal grey. |
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He bailed out, the machine falling away, but his parachute was sucked into a storm cloud. |
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Their roots sucked up storm water and held earth in place, preventing erosion. |
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As the tsunami event began, water was sucked away from the beach and scores of fish were stranded. |
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You can get sucked into one very easily if your not strong enough to stand against the gravity. |
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This is the last view myriad insects have in life before being swamped by a long, sticky tongue and sucked back into the chameleon's mouth. |
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She just stood there, her arms out at near shoulder level, like she was balancing on a high wire, her breath all sucked in. |
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When the pranksters revealed their hoax on Tuesday, the TV reporters threw a major hissy fit, outraged at having been sucked in. |
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They have no cheliceral teeth and their prey is consequently not mashed but sucked dry. |
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Sleeves rolled up, Sebastian leaned against the wall with his chair tipped back on two legs and sucked on a cheroot. |
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It's not runnable in our craft and, if we're sucked into the hole beyond the chute, perhaps not survivable. |
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She clutched her forehead and sucked in a swallow of air as she steadied herself. |
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This struck me as unusual because on previous visits the drain has always been sucked out before any water was swished down it. |
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The next morning I mixed in some lime zest and added some more cold coconut milk because the rice had sucked up all the moisture. |
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Unfortunately, some get sucked into the perils of addiction before they know what has hit them. |
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Famine was a regular occurrence, while spices, coffee and sugar were sucked out for Western markets at vast profit to Dutch business. |
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This is the film where Chaplin gets sucked into the bowels of a machine, tightening screws as he get squeezed through a series of cogwheels. |
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I was so impassioned that my mom got sucked into the scheme and helped me with the binding. |
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With hordes of yellow pilotfish bouncing off its nose, and longer than I am tall, it could have sucked me into its maw in one watery gasp. |
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All concerned countries will be sucked in, regardless of their subjective wishes. |
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If we were lucky, it wouldn't have gotten sucked into the fuel pump, the fuel line or the injectors. |
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Jack was thrown forward by the concussion of the blast, and then sucked back as all the air in the ship was sucked into space. |
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He brought the cigar to his mouth and sucked on it, the orange tip growing a fiery hot yellow, then returning to its usual dullness. |
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Once when he tried to suck up liquid in a pipette while testing metals, he accidentally sucked some of the dangerous liquid into his mouth. |
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Secondly, oil collects all the unwanted foreign matter like dirt and grime that gets sucked into the engine through the air intake. |
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Finally, she sucked on my finger, sucked on my finger, sucked on my finger, and conked out in my lap. |
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As we continued up the hill, the sound of air being sucked into the firebox was deafening, even with ear plugs. |
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They get sucked into the comfort zone and become content with their achievements. |
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But when I was a kid I thought that if you took the plug out of the bath while you were still in it you would be sucked down with the water. |
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When I got back from Wellington, my flatmate casually mentioned that the rubber bung had somehow been sucked down the plughole. |
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In addition, are these profits being converted into cash or are they being sucked up by items like capital expenditure? |
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As the lights go up the rigging falls through the trap door and the backdrop appears to be sucked inwards towards the centre of the stage. |
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The instant coolness sucked away all the sun's heat and chilled him more quickly than he had expected. |
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On a map, the fleet's movement over the next week would look like iron filings sucked in by a magnet. |
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The fibers sucked by vacuum onto the outer surface of the foraminous cathode. |
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She could be sucked down the drain and the world would have one less evil dictator to cower in fear from. |
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Oh, yeah, there are also some weird cloud formations and a couple of people get sucked into the sky. |
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One was taken when the spout was relatively far out and the other over the surf line where the broken crest of a wave is being sucked up. |
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All of a sudden, when the trees were burnt to a crisp, the flames were sucked back in the center as if by a vacuum. |
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In control broods the fry were sucked into the tubing and then released straight back into the pit. |
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I sucked all the spit from the pouches of my cheeks, making a nice squishy sound. |
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A cuckoo called, and swallows swooped low in east winds sucked dry by the hot land. |
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The air is sucked out of the infected cavity and replaced with ozone, a powerful germicide. |
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The chimney was drawing well and the smoke was quickly sucked out of the room. |
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If you enjoy noticing these kinds of narrative goofs, you'll really enjoy it when characters start getting literally sucked into space. |
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Construction, agriculture, water diversion, and diking have sucked away at the waterway since settlement boomed here in the 19th century. |
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The surface of the mirror began to twist and swirl, distorting Ferik's own image until it had been sucked away completely. |
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One of their catches gets kept in the dungeon of their castle, to be sucked and dined on nightly. |
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Nath sucked down some flaming blue cocktail and his eyes bugged out. |
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Japanese newspaper Daily Yomiuri reports that police suspect that a computer virus might have sucked up this sensitive data and spread it over the Net. |
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The toddler just sucked his thumb and discovered his own entertainment. |
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They've ripped out our hearts and sucked us dry financially. |
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They are all destitute, since the corporation has already sucked them dry. |
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He got sucked into trouble and appeared before the courts on charges of failing to stop after an accident, burgling an unoccupied building and kicking a car. |
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Conflicting accounts have her either falling back and getting sucked under the bulldozer or being hit head one. |
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I sucked in air, feeling goosebumps and tingles erupt all over my skin. |
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Sister Margaret Geary, 85, survived on celery sticks, a bottle of water, and cough drops she sucked on to quell her thirst. |
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In 1951 he proposed, what is today called the Schwinger effect in quantum electrodynamics, where electron-positron pairs are sucked out of a vacuum by an electric field. |
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I sucked it up and did what I said I would do for donations. |
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When an old coach route from Lancaster to Kendal used to take a shortcut across the bay, several coaches were either overtaken by the tide or sucked under in quicksand. |
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I'm a complete sucker for aerial views, and this sucked big time. |
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When you slide the front section out and unscrew the front, you can see that the intake fan has two removable dust filters to help stop dust being sucked into your case. |
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Some players can get sucked into an ego trip and try to milk the media. |
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The next morning, in a small ramekin, I mixed in some lime zest and added some more, cold, coconut milk because the rice had sucked up all the moisture. |
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He held his breath and swung his arms out, but a fist buried itself in his belly, emptying his lungs, and when he sucked in air, he knew he was in terrible trouble. |
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His furnace was placed at the middle of a side wall, where waste heat could be sucked up a chimney to prevent the workshop from becoming too hot in summer. |
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I was so depressed by it and so lost, it completely sucked all the joy out of playing music for me. |
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Her voice chilled him farther than her hands did, hissing like dried ice and dying smoke as it wreathed over his head and sucked into his mouth and clung damp to his lungs. |
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It may simply be a dressed up reaffirmation of their right to remain militarily neutral in any future global conflict into which the EU is sucked. |
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She has been mysteriously sucked into a movie by an evil force to provide us with more than enough motivation to hop into the red tights and commence with the beat-down. |
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Her mouth was pinched, almost sulky, as if she'd sucked on a lemon. |
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Brake fluid sucked from the reservoir by a motor pump is discharged to each of the branched out conduits between the valve and the wheel cylinder. |
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Even when he opens up, the sentences are wooden, the scenes sucked dry of emotion. |
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In case of massive, lifethreatening pulmonary thromboembolism the clot can be sucked out through a large catheter via the percutaneous angiographic route. |
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I sucked more of it from my finger, until it was licked, clean. |
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Like the kids in today's army, I was just another poor boy sucked into the machine and told how honorable and patriotic it was to offer myself as cannon fodder. |
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As air is sucked towards the equator on the trade winds and rises, it loses its moisture as rainfall before moving back towards the poles on the antitrade winds. |
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One flight attendant was sucked out to her death and 65 passengers were injured but, miraculously, the 737 landed. |
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In one experiment that compared zinc to a placebo, participants who sucked on zinc lozenges every couple of hours found that the length of their cold was cut in half. |
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The bugs, bacteria, and nasties are sucked into the first millimeter or so of the wood and are trapped there. |
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Occasionally, two or three waves stack on top of each other, and the backwash is sucked into the breaking waves, spraying white foam 25 feet into the sky. |
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I walked up to it and I saw white steam being sucked under the door. |
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Today, they are still extracting revenge and blood from a barren land that has been sucked dry by a despotic ruling class and its natural allies in Washington and Paris. |
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To one side of her a young boy in overalls sucked on his ticket, to the other a plump man frowned through a monocle at a pocket watch chained to his vest. |
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Which means I frequently find myself bent over my bed, or her crib, or her Moses basket, with my wrist contorted into this odd and painful position as she sucked away. |
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And yes, that is kat Dennings getting her breast sucked by two men while a third pours liquor down her throat. |
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It is easy to get sucked up into the harangues of Rockwell and company when one has limited knowledge of the conditions and behaviour that made such legislation necessary. |
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There is a blueness about the businessmen that the silver man serves, their natural colour sucked away by too many vacuum-sealed five star environments. |
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I sometimes sucked on cough drops to escape moments of boredom. |
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He complied, leant over the bowl, and sucked the food into his mouth. |
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Since last year, Greece has been sucked into a vortex by the debt woes that are now threatening the very foundations of the euro. |
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By the time the last rows have done their scraping, the beak is completely closed, leaving the algae trimmings to be sucked in during the next chomp. |
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Hesitantly, I sucked in the smoke drawn through the pipe, holding it in my lungs and feeling the warmth inside of me, before slowly letting it out. |
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It begins with me being nudged awake by a waxy moon spilling silver-white light through the window as I sucked my thumb. |
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Nicky gave me a long hard stare and sucked on his cigarette. |
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The sequels sucked so what makes them think a tv series will work! Smh. |
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Like all boys he immediately put his thumb into this mouth and sucked it. |
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The horse's flanks were already heaving as she sucked in deep breaths. |
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The situation is hardly helped by the brain drain, in which Northern towns suffer an exodus of the most educated and skilled who are sucked away to London. |
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So, in the interest of brevity, here's a quick rundown of what sucked. |
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I borrowed a shop vac and sucked up everything that wasn't nailed down. |
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All around her Caroline could see that even some of the smaller boats were being sucked under the water by the pressure created by the sinking ship. |
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Huddled against each other were two gargantuan dragons, so large that a passing breath might have sucked all of my eight feet into the depths of a nostril. |
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Is he being sucked into the febrile world of bickering, backstabbing artists, or can he use the RA as a platform to improve the status of architecture in Britain? |
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She sucked her lips together like the doors of a lift clamping shut. |
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The Blackburn Rovers boss saw his side collapse to a 4-0 defeat in an Anfield horror show that sucked them further into a fight for Premiership survival. |
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The two flattened their backs against the pilothouse and sucked in their guts. |
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Blinded by the glittering of gold, a multitude of people are sucked into the maelstrom of seeking windfalls by whatever means within reach, legal or illegal. |
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We were sucked into doing exactly what Celera has always done, which is to talk up the result and watch the reports come out saying that it's all done. |
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Her wrists still burned from the rope chafing her flesh and she sucked a breath in through her clenched teeth as her forehead touched their raw skin. |
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We'd sit in store front Thai noodle houses, eating Pad Thai, and drinking mango bubble tea with wide pink and green straws that sucked up the tapioca balls at the bottom. |
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And, once she had invented a slit valve that allowed liquid to be sucked out but prevented accidental spills, Mrs Haberman thought the hardest part was over. |
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I ended up developing a blister on one of my vocal cords, so that kinda sucked. |
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I sucked on the hose that he handed me and was instantly really high. |
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You might think your boyfriend's straight, but he sucked me off last night. |
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The house is pale as though its life-blood were sucked and the Cabots reduced to unbeings. |
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Organisms that trip the plant's sensory hairs are sucked inside bladderlike traps to be digested. |
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But as bubba is wont to do, he sucked up all the oxygen in the room. |
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These animals normally hit the plane's windshield or get sucked by the engine, in which case authorities label the incidents as avian ingestion. |
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The dog was sucked down the drain after Leona, and her parents believe he may have unsnagged her along the way, ultimately saving her life. |
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He's a big dog and, when he got sucked through, the force of him hitting her has unsnagged her and spat her out. |
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The Chinook Mountain winds had sucked out most of the storm windows, and broken glass totally encircled the house. |
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Roofs were torn off and one window was completely sucked out of a pub by the updraft. |
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Once a fire starts, the heat attracts an updraught, and the hotter the fire gets the more oxygen-rich air is sucked through the deck to feed it. |
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If you are sucked in by random prank emails or urban legends, you can now log onto snopes. |
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Bird strikes, also referred as Avian ingestion when sucked into the plane's engine, commonly occur during takeoff and landing. |
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In particular, a phenomenon known as a white dwarf hypernova could have sucked alien life into a black hole. |
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And to copper-fasten the misery, Pilkington looked on as the Canaries were sucked under and relegated from the Premier League. |
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The man was being battered on rocks off the coast of Porthcawl after he was sucked into a small bay by a rip tide. |
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And he's such a foul character that the whole thing is about as much fun as getting your privates sucked down a plughole. |
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We must recruit from the miserable and hopefully before they are sucked into otherworldly hopes. |
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Oil is the long-entombed dreck of extinct sea creatures, baked in primeval sediments sucked down into the crust of the earth. |
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A RAIL worker told yesterday how he desperately battled to save a Scots woman after she was sucked into the cogs of a moving walkway. |
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The interpreter and Isolda dined in a restaurant on the shore where every evening the child sucked long spaghettini into himself. |
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He sucked in another lungful of smoke, the burning end of his roach glowing orange for a second and then going dark red. |
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He's doing a partial vacuum with air being sucked in the front and being shot out under some skis. |
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And it sucked extra, because for all Frankie's totally nonacademy-approved insubordination and occasional dickheadedness, he was an amazing chef. |
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And Charles Chester Smithers sucked on that warm black dingus for as long as he could. |
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He paled a little, and sucked his lip, his eyes wandering to the girl, who stood in stolid inapprehension of what was being said. |
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I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry. |
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As air is sucked through the carburetor into the engine, the local air pressure is lowered, which causes adiabatic cooling. |
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Here it was sucked from tiny one-shot bottles wrapped in coarse paper, taken between drafts of good East German beer. |
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Due to this pressure aortic and pulmonary valves are opened passively and due to relaxation blood is sucked from the venae cavae into the atrium. |
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Consequently, air is sucked into or expelled out of the lungs, always moving down its pressure gradient. |
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The module feeder's loose cotton is then sucked into the same starting point as the trailer cotton. |
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A smoke sample is simply sucked through a filter which is weighed before and after the test and the mass of smoke found. |
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The ghost hypnotized them, and they wandered into the mire, fell through the ice, and were sucked into the thick bog. |
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Byron sparked the cigarette. He sucked it dramatically and thrust it into Marko's hand. |
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I sucked in my belly, hoping to hide the extra weight I had put on over the holidays. |
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Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried. |
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Using a tiny straw-like glass instrument called a micropipette, researchers sucked out the cell's nucleus, the part that houses genetic information. |
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So, if you have a return grille in the floor of your home, the return air is being sucked into your house from the basement, crawlspace, or attic. |
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Now it seems that Pa Senik was a little deaf. Awang noticed that his father-in-law sometimes poured the gravy of his curry on his rice and that sometimes he sucked it up. |
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There is also a danger that manpower resources will be sucked into the urban areas of South Wales and Gwent to the detriment of the ruralities elsewhere. |
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Native plants like Fremont cottonwood and seep willow have recolonized treated areas, and springs that were nearly sucked dry from tamarisk are returning to historical flows. |
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As there is a partial vacuum inside the drum, the liquid is sucked inside the drum and the insolubles are deposited on the outer surface of the membrane filter. |
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If Nini Mo were alive today, she would not stand by idly as Califa is sucked ever deeper into lapdoggery, as we bow our heads ever lower to the Birdie yoke. |
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So after 8 days, pool water sucked by the pump and after the passed through a sand filter, disinfected and then magnetized by magnetizer and returned back to the pond. |
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The outflow is spread out over a large surface area and the inflow enters as a sheet of water in front of the outflow, so the jellyfish do not get sucked into it. |
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After sharing a handfasting ceremony with Bob, things seemed to be on the up but she is quickly sucked into the love triangle between Debbie, Cameron and Chaz. |
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Water can also be sucked away from shore prior to a storm surge. |
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It was a lunch hour more than 10 years ago when Terri Lozier, now a principal in another district just outside Chicago, was sucked into the violence of a school fight. |
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Sometimes when you're angry, it feels like you've been invaded by a Body Snatcher who has sucked every ounce of rational thought right out of you. |
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Maggots actually feed by extracorporeal digestion, a process in which they spit enzymes onto the tissue, which breaks down into a semiliquid that can be sucked up. |
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This time Rob Corddry takes over the reins but his character Lou is so foul that the whole thing is about as much fun as getting your privates sucked down a plughole. |
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The invertebrate is sucked into the bladder, where it is digested. |
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Regardless of the fundamentalists' position, we cannot and should not abide when mainstream media gets sucked into their messaging, in the so-called pursuit of evenhandedness. |
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As she sucked in her cheeks and stuck out her chest for the cameras, Clever Carol looked as dumb as any B-list actress making hay while the flashguns shine. |
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But his next words sucked all the air out of my rationalizations. |
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I really didn't want to be on the committee, but somehow I got sucked in. |
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If you have been sucked in by the clammer for 4x4s but don't want to compromise your beliefs or pay through the nose then the Kuga is a great go-anywhere alternative. |
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