Bat flies evolved closely with two other groups of blood sucking flies, the Hippoboscidae, and the Glossinidae. |
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There were all these children with tooth decay yet you see them sucking lollies. |
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The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs. |
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With the fan sitting at the other end and sucking air out, a strong airflow is running through the casing. |
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Last year, Arthritis New Zealand ran billboards featuring a middle-aged woman sucking on a fat marijuana cigarette. |
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I am thankful my wife walked the last 5 km with me because I was definitely sucking the kumara. |
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It occurs to me now that I'd regressed to the stage before I had teeth, when the only kind of eating I could do was sucking. |
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Personal allowances and thresholds will probably be indexed, sucking more people into higher-rate tax as wages rise faster than prices. |
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The sucking lice or the anoplurans have mouthparts fitted for piercing and sucking. |
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Mr Griffiths was sucking hopefully at his pipe, which had refused to light properly. |
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As a group, aphids attack a plant by sucking its fluids from tender new growth. |
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He was sucking a lemon, but had finished it and threw away the rind, folding his arms across his chest. |
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In addition, try sucking a throat lozenge as the sucking action helps to keep a dry throat moist. |
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So, lollipops and sucking sweeties were banned, but soft sweets and chocolate were deemed OK in moderation. |
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The grass has taken and was long and wet in the morning and was full of snails sucking to thick blades. |
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All weaken a plant by sucking sap, causing chlorotic spots on the tops of the leaves. |
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Turning the old male menopause theory on its head, Eclair continues while sucking on a Silk Cut. |
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Symptomatic relief of teething discomfort includes sucking on cold teething rings or wash-cloths. |
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You snake your way through mangroves where trees stand tiptoe on their roots to avoid sucking up much brackish water. |
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He is the thinker of the gang, manifestly sucking his wisdom out of his thumb. |
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Then they chew the fibrous fruit into a ball of pulp and spend ages sucking out the goodness. |
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The cow came loose from the bog with a fearful sucking noise and an overwhelming smell of marsh gas. |
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Half-time came, and while the team were sucking oranges or mandarins we had a breakfast bap. |
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Those who cannot make their own fame will feed off the fame of others like a tick sucking the blood out of a dog. |
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He's so cool, he's like a professional, blowing big bubbles then sucking them back into his mouth with a pop. |
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Factors as diverse as skeletal muscle pathology and sucking a digit can substantially influence the growth of the face and dentition. |
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I mean if she had a lollipop in her mouth and started sucking her teeth, I would have thought she was Glamour Girl Sue. |
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For the most part, they sat through the trial drawing, sucking their thumbs or crying. |
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The lice are parasites and are sucking off essential fluids, while leaving a gaping wound prone to infection. |
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I kicked my girlfriend out of my apartment at college because since we moved in together she has been sucking me dry of money. |
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Now the mortgage is finally paid off and he no longer has any children sucking him dry for allowance, tuition and other costly fees. |
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Did I stumble onto some airline cult, sucking me in with low, low fares and a direct flight to Boston? |
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When David inevitably piles up a debt he can't pay, Tony moves in on his business, sucking it dry and draining his son's college fund. |
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Long moans, clicks of his tongue, and the sucking of his teeth were clearly heard. |
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Crooked teeth are often inherited from our parents, but they can also be the result of the early loss of milk teeth or thumb sucking. |
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Sleeping with an animal for comfort is not like sucking your thumb or dragging a blankie around. |
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No more tatty trouser hems dragging through mud and sucking up puddle water like blotting paper. |
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The wind and rain continued unabated, sucking this once respectable vessel further into the quagmire of decay. |
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A loud sucking noise in the piping of a fixture indicates that there is a siphonage action which needs correction. |
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Their laterally flattened bodies are covered in bristles and spines and their mouthparts are especially adapted for piercing and sucking. |
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No bigger than an apple seed, the bedbug is descended from plant-feeding insects that evolved skin-piercing mouthparts for sucking up blood. |
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Dipterans typically have sucking mouthparts, and may feed on plant juices or on decaying organic matter. |
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Fortune, unchastened in its shameless sucking up to CEO's, is running a puff piece about Terry Semel at Yahoo. |
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There will be 100 to 150 people, mainly made up of friends and family and a few obligatory old ladies sucking on boiled sweets. |
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Next, they took an unfertilized egg from a second sheep and removed its DNA, carefully sucking it out with a thin glass tube called a pipette. |
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The last thing I remember before I drifted off to sleep was the annoying slurping noise of him sucking on his thumb. |
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The tankers are capable of sucking out waste, sludge, and slurry from a depth of eight metres in absolutely no time. |
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Beneath the projecting snout there is a small, toothless mouth with thick, sucking lips. |
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He can almost imagine the sound it makes, a sucking noise, like pulling one of those rubber soap dishes away from the bath. |
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The soft carpet beneath his feet might as well be molasses, sucking him down, trapping him. |
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The meat is said to be tender and well flavoured, resembling chicken or sucking pig. |
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There is the sucking lamb, named after the aforementioned child who still likes mommy's milk, and then the weaned lamb. |
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Persistently sore nipples usually indicate that the baby is not sucking correctly. |
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It is, therefore, after this age that there is a possibility that thumb, finger, or pacifier sucking will contribute to buck teeth. |
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If your baby is having trouble sucking, try using a rubber suction bulb to help clear his or her nose before each feeding. |
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Next I had to fling some victuals into the sucking void of self-digesting agony that was my stomach. |
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The post ripped out of the thick mud with a sharp sucking sound and a splatter of wet dirt, and the ropes slipped from Talon's wrist. |
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Wool sucking, in particular, is prevalent in the oriental breeds, such as the Siamese, Burmese, and Himalayan. |
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Nick was already hefting the cooler himself, sucking in his gut and trying to pretend it was feather-light. |
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The salivary glands, stylets, and sucking pharynx are known as the buccal apparatus. |
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On papaya, mealy bugs damage the plant by sucking its juices and excreting a clear, gooey substance called honeydew. |
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Pistol once again brings attention to the seamy side of war, in his declaration that in France they will be like horseleeches, sucking blood. |
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For this reason, sucking any pastille, lozenge or boiled sweet can help to relieve a sore throat. |
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Burning cleanly with no pollutants, this may be an answer the energy sucking economy is looking for. |
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Alpine pennycress is one of these plants with a penchant for sucking up metals and storing them. |
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The only downside is the vigour of the tree, which is weakened by the sap sucking of the coccids. |
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I would not take exception to a member discreetly sucking a peppermint or a throat lozenge, but it should go no further than that. |
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If you can't stand the after-taste of garlic, try sucking a coffee bean or nibbling on some fresh parsley. |
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They will hold your hair off of your face and prevent salty perspiration from sucking all the moisture out of your hair. |
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I try to teach the children lessons about the sanctity of life as the fish, sucking for oxygen, lose their heads and innards. |
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He tipped the vial over and plunged the needle into it, sucking out the liquid. |
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They feed by sucking juices from soft-bodied invertebrates through a long proboscis. |
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He treated the throat by alternating between sucking on cough drops and chain smoking. |
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The visitors, in direct contrast, played the patience game, sucking their opponents in or attempting to succeed on the counter-attack. |
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A hollow candle is stuck into the ear and lit, allegedly sucking out earwax and negative energy. |
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Power couples are all around us, dahling, sucking up all the oxygen out of the room. |
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Self-help measures for a sore throat include gargling with salt water or sucking on throat lozenges. |
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There were two pretty bad ones, but the worst injury was called a sucking chest wound. |
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The lines in the dirt clung to his heels, not with the delicate gossamer of a spider's threads, but with the thick grume of sucking mud. |
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The creature grows to a tremendous size, begins sucking down the exhaust from some towering smokestacks, and generally wreaks havoc. |
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She popped a bubble with her gum, slowly sucking it back into her mouth, making her look like a fish. |
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They made the leathery meal soft enough to swallow by alternately sucking on and gumming it. |
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Named after the sucking fish, Remora is a 16.5 tonne remotely operated rescue vehicle built about a diving bell. |
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The drone begins to sound similar to a vacuum cleaner sucking up all the surrounding life. |
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They're just sucking up to their own bosses, their own lusts. |
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When Dracula feeds on a human, the blood sucking is more graphic than on True Blood, even. |
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Mites damage ferns by puncturing the edges of fern fronds with their tube-like stylets and other mouthparts, sucking up the nutritious contents of frond cells. |
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Borges had an almost Evelyn Waugh-like capacity for sucking up to the upper classes. |
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They are like vampires sucking the lifeblood out of the taxpayers. |
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The insect families that scientists lump together as aphids belong to the huge order of true bugs, which typically deploy sucking mouthparts much like built-in soda straws. |
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For the New Year a sucking pig roasted was a delicacy worth waiting for and for Easter the paschal baby lamb or goat roasted whole on a spit is universally loved. |
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I felt swept under, the way a wave would take you unawares at the shore, and roll you down into the breakers, sucking you in and pulling you across the sand underneath. |
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He still has to suck it up as he has been sucking it up all his life. |
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No amount of sucking my cheeks in, blowing them out, poking them in with my fingers, attempting to trap them between my teeth while attempting to hold a smile worked. |
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After about a minute of sucking up and butterfly kisses, he gave in. |
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I heard a bunch of sucking noises, smacks, and giggles below. |
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Coming to a halt, she rested her hands on her hips and tilted her head upwards, sucking at the air like a claustrophobic who'd been trapped in an elevator for too long. |
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The sky was icy blue and the chill wind made it feel like everyone in the whole world was sucking on a moon-sized peppermint every time we breathed in. |
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Other insecticides have a narrower range of activity, such as dimethoate and Metasystox-R, which are toxic primarily to sucking pests such as aphids. |
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That being said, it's sort of crazy that the two hot chicks end up sucking face for SO MUCH LONGER than any of the hetero couples. |
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In a grand gesture of sucking up, I offered them my lunch to pillage. |
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Now try to imagine him waving a dayglo wand and sucking a dummy. |
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For a monarch caterpillar, ingesting milkweed poisons is not a surefire defense against a predatory stinkbug, which harpoons its victims before sucking up the body fluids. |
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Bugs, though not as many as there would be naturally, hung around her head in a perpetual cloud, midges and no-see-ums buzzing in her ear and sucking on her sweat. |
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He was just sucking up to the hippie establishment, trying to be cool. |
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Infection is through the oral route when sucking from teats contaminated either by faeces in ewes harbouring the bacteria in their intestinal tract, or by infected soil. |
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Seventy-five miles and 6.5 hours from the start and we are scarfing some hot food and sucking down cold beers, legs a bit sore but the soul quenched. |
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But abacus and similar deals were already sucking money out of Rhineland, according to a person familiar with the matter. |
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My dad's a dentist who uses drills, explorers and sucking tubes. |
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Strictly speaking, there is no gene for a sucking reflex, let alone for female coyness or Scottish thriftiness or cognizance of the concept of zero. |
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Much of the mystic vampire appeal certainly emanates from the overt sexuality of the core image of a male vampire sucking the blood of a nubile maiden. |
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He started sucking on his pacifier a lot, and he slept less. |
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While the nymphs lie low, sucking roots in sheltering soil, you will steer a course from the eager springs of boyhood to the braided delta of manhood and majority. |
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Gene is caught sucking on a lemon because he has a frog in his throat. |
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She added in the high-pitched, over-enunciated voice, like she was alternating between sucking on helium and a bong. |
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Of course, when your company is based upon the idea of your customers sucking you dry via a multi-level marketing scheme, there's nowhere to go but up. |
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Something is missing if I can't drive along that steamy central section of the Florida Turnpike at night, sucking the heady smell of orange blossoms into my lungs. |
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If you can, avoid using a dummy and discourage thumb sucking. |
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It was an age of excess, of overweening ambition, of greed, and phoniness, and sucking up, and the glorification of strange, obnoxious, preening, uninteresting people. |
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Stay well clear of them as they are all blood sucking parasites. |
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The beer engine draws the brew out almost like sucking on a straw. |
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I realized that the vampire was sucking my blood out from my arm. |
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Zied suggests popping a breath strip, sucking on a strong mint, or reapplying your lip gloss. |
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The idea is, hold back the barbarian hordes, and excise the cancerous growth that is sucking the lifeblood from our economy. |
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Which is why, I'm pleased to report, in the interests of empathy and investigation, I sit here thoroughly doused in meths, sucking happily on a cuff. |
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I was one of the brave men and younger men who was in the trenches of Grenada, sucking up mustard gas grenades that the lazy pinkos were tossing at us for 58 days straight. |
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Because, as everyone knows, celebrities are for sucking up to only. |
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It is still young enough to be sucking milk from its mother. |
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Yet again, you have to wonder about the company Tony keeps and his apparent fondness for sucking up to media barons and other people of wealth or influence. |
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We have infestations at different times of things like Spider Crabs and Spider Crabs are very fond of nipping the ends off the arms and sucking the gonads out from inside. |
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Coren was sucking on a saxophone reed, listening to them talk. |
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Pavel took a long draw on his cigarette, irritably sucking the smoke in. |
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There were children paddling in the streams, and girls carrying brushwood bundles on their heads, and old men sitting in the shade, sucking at their silver hookahs. |
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I suppose a blutwurst once a decade can count as a blood substitute, but the idea of sucking a teenager dry has little appeal. |
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Insect vectors known as triatomines, or blood sucking bugs, which are widespread throughout Texas, transmit the trypanosome parasite. |
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Unlike the masticating mallophagans, anoplurans have mouthparts modified for piercing epidermal tissues and sucking up blood. |
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Most harpists back then played cross harp, sucking in on the notes to bend and bluesify them. |
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It was going to be hard not to blow with a girl like her sucking on his crank. |
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They are characterized by a unique cephalic sucking disc by which the echeneid attaches itself externally to its host. |
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The red gumbo soil uttered ugly sucking sounds at the touch of a man's boot. |
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These insects sit on the veins of tree leaves, sucking their sap and excreting a sugary solution known as lerp. |
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When an exhausted sucker is hauled to the top of The Wall, usually its muckling circle of a mouth goes into a frenzied sucking spasm. |
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These operate by sucking through a long tube, like some vacuum cleaners but on a larger scale. |
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They fly back to their roosts to eat the fruit, sucking out the juice and spitting the seeds and pulp out onto the ground. |
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Other ectoparasites include biting lice, sucking lice and the fleas Pulex irritans and Ctenocephalides canis. |
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These usually avoid the noxious secretion by puncturing the tadpole's skin and sucking out its juices. |
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Their mouths and gills form a powerful sucking system that sucks their prey in from a distance. |
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First, they employ limb pumping, sucking air into their lungs and pushing it out by moving the limbs in and out relative to the shell. |
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Reduvids live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack human beings. |
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Cows addicted to the habit of sucking themselves should be taken in hand as soon as they are known to be self-suckers. |
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The tide seized us and swept us along, and in the races where this happened there were sucking whirlpools, strong enough to twist us round. |
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This tube is composed of 4 stylets, 2 maxillae and 2 mandibles, that interlock to form 2 canals, one for saliva and one for sucking food. |
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See the future king intently sucking on a biro as he plans the day below. |
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Does anyone care that these mostly unelected windbags are sucking up our money and then flushing it straight down their newfangled eco-toilets? |
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A voracious giant squid sucking a pirate ship down to Davy Jones' locker. |
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He was crib-biting and wind sucking, and all his teeth had worn down, so we were hand-feeding him. |
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Occasionally pathognomic features of cysticercosis lesion like scolex or sucking parts of the larva may be demonstrated. |
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The Elysia chlorotica is a sea slug that looks like a leaf and eats by sucking the insides out of strands of algae. |
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Like a minuscule vacuum cleaner, it can easily slide over a copper surface, sucking up loose copper atoms. |
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This is done with a spoon, and Martin encouraged the judges to make loud slurping sounds by sucking the coffee off spoons. |
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Dear reader, FROM toe sucking to foot fetishes, feet are a common erogenous zone. |
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We are the ultimate abusive guests, parasitically sucking the good bits from the earth and excreting only rubbish. |
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A calm day, but we still ended up spinning through scary tide rips with 2-foot standing waves and sucking whirlpools. |
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Prevent spider mites from sucking out juices from leaves, flowers, and the blossom ends of fruit by eliminating the dusty environments they love. |
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When King gave Josie a sponge bath, the brown-haired, brown-eyed toddler grabbed the washcloth and began sucking on it feverishly. |
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A sucking chest wound of 1 cm diameter on the left parasternal border in the 4th intercostal space and a hyperresonant left chest with decreased breath sounds were noted. |
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Her biggest challenge was low muscle tone, which delayed her development in most areas, including eating and sucking, and she had not yet begun to sit or teethe at 1 year. |
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It protects many fruit and vegetable crops against sucking insects like aphids, scales, mealy bugs, woolly aphids, whiteflies and certain thrips species. |
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Among the problems that respond to early treatment are crossbites, underbites, crowding, spacing, thumb sucking habits and impacted teeth, he said. |
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With a huge, specially designed carburetor sucking air like a ram jet and individual pipes rather than a standard exhaust manifold, the result was like riding an ack-ack gun. |
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Many Bank Bali staff see it as a foreign invader bent on sucking them dry. |
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Despite the potential of derivatives from Annonaceae in arthropod pest management, little is known regarding their action against sucking insects that transmit phytopathogens. |
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I want the ground to swallow me up. I want to hide in a corner, curl up, and weep, sucking my thumb. I want the TARDIS to appear and take me away. |
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I knew he must've woke up sucking a lemon when he didn't even say hello. |
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Lice have traditionally been divided into chewing lice and sucking lice based on the structure of their mouthparts and the resulting feeding strategy. |
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By searching for rootworm DNA in their guts, Lundgren found that predators with sucking mouthparts ate more rootworms than any of the other predators tested. |
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Have you ever observed a tight school of mullet sucking the neuston layer? |
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