He has a habit of sucking his pencil.
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Sucking
//ˈsʌkɪŋ//
Synonyms for "sucking" (20 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (6)
Related words (10)
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17 translations across 13 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَصّ noun (act of sucking)
Bulgarian
2 entries- бозаене noun (act of sucking)
- сучене noun (act of sucking)
Czech
2 entries- cucání noun (act of sucking)
- sání noun (act of sucking)
Finnish
2 entries- imeminen noun (act of sucking)
- imentä noun (act of sucking)
French
2 entries- succion noun (act of sucking)
- sucement noun (act of sucking)
German
1 entries- Saugen noun (act of sucking)
Hungarian
1 entries- szopogás noun (act of sucking)
Ido
1 entries- sugo noun (act of sucking)
Latin
1 entries- sūctus noun (act of sucking)
Macedonian
1 entries- цицање noun (act of sucking)
Russian
1 entries- соса́ние noun (act of sucking)
Spanish
1 entries- chupadura noun (act of sucking)
Telugu
1 entries- పీల్చుట noun (act of sucking)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Carpets have the effect of a dust pocket, with merit of sucking up dust and stopping it flying around, but you can say that effect backfires.
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Look at those conformists, they're always sucking up to the man.
Source: tatoeba (868237)
The baby is sucking his finger.
Source: tatoeba (1663048)
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