Crossword-Solution: SUCTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Suction | v. t. | The act or process of sucking; the act of drawing, as fluids, by exhausting the air. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “SUCTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Modus operandi of a toilet plunger | 1 answer |
| Vacuum cleaners' force | 1 answer |
| Vacuum effect | 1 answer |
| Vacuum strength | 1 answer |
| Vacuum-cleaner sine qua non | 1 answer |
| What a vacuum cleaner has | 1 answer |
| Type of pump | 2 answers |
| Vacuum feature | 3 answers |
| Kind of cup | 6 answers |
| Vacuum | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUCTION (5)
Never, if Saint Antoine knew his own sufferings, insults, and wrongs! Armed men and women flocked out of the Quarter so fast, and drew even these last dregs after them with such a force of suction, that within a quarter of an hour there was not a human creature in Saint Antoine’s bosom but a few old crones and the wailing children.
Implicated in this invention (and, in the Duchess’s eyes, the most attractive part of it) was an electric suction dredge, specially designed for dragging to the surface such objects of interest and value as might be found in the more accessible levels of the ocean-bed.
The other breathed a cautious prolonged sigh of relief “You'd better light a fresh one, hadn't you?” he asked, observing with a kind of contemptuous tolerance the old man's efforts to ignite a cigar which had more than once unrolled like a carpenter's shaving in his unaccustomed fingers, and was now shapelessly defiant of both draught and suction.
The rag-rooms alone still employed hundreds of girls who picked, sorted, dusted over the great suction bins.
Whence it follows that the Bank, to-day the suction-pump of wealth, is destined to become the steward of the human race.
Quotes with SUCTION (3)
The letter said that they were two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye in its palm. The creatures were friendly, and they could see in four dimensions. They pitied Earthlings for being able to see only three. They had many wonderful things to teach Earthlings, especially about time.…
Finally when he climbed below deck after dark, wondering where his dinner was, perhaps with a storm come up and rough seas and blinding rains, I'd sulk and lure him into the warm and steamy darkness and from the hairs of his warm body I'd breed a myriad smiling, sparkle-eyed one-year-olds, my broods, my flocks. In the churning seas, below the waves, together inside our hammock woven in coarse sailcloth by Unguentine's deft hands, a spherical webbed sack which hung and swivell…
This what you want, huh?” He pulled her hips off the wall with his spare hand to fit snug against his body. “Me using you like this?” His head lowered to her other breast, replacing the pinching with suction, soothing the stinging tip as his fingers tortured the other. Yes. This. Them using each other. That was what she wanted. What the hell was wrong with that? The irrational anger she’d felt in the car boiled up in her again. “Fuck you,” she panted, grounding her head and s…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1970–2021).