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Bat flies evolved closely with two other groups of blood sucking flies, the Hippoboscidae, and the Glossinidae.
There were all these children with tooth decay yet you see them sucking lollies.
The adults of most species feed on nectar and honeydew produced by aphids and other sucking insects like leafhoppers, whiteflies and mealybugs.
With the fan sitting at the other end and sucking air out, a strong airflow is running through the casing.
Last year, Arthritis New Zealand ran billboards featuring a middle-aged woman sucking on a fat marijuana cigarette.
I am thankful my wife walked the last 5 km with me because I was definitely sucking the kumara.
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.
Personal allowances and thresholds will probably be indexed, sucking more people into higher-rate tax as wages rise faster than prices.
The sucking lice or the anoplurans have mouthparts fitted for piercing and sucking.
Mr Griffiths was sucking hopefully at his pipe, which had refused to light properly.
As a group, aphids attack a plant by sucking its fluids from tender new growth.
He was sucking a lemon, but had finished it and threw away the rind, folding his arms across his chest.
In addition, try sucking a throat lozenge as the sucking action helps to keep a dry throat moist.
So, lollipops and sucking sweeties were banned, but soft sweets and chocolate were deemed OK in moderation.
The grass has taken and was long and wet in the morning and was full of snails sucking to thick blades.
All weaken a plant by sucking sap, causing chlorotic spots on the tops of the leaves.
Turning the old male menopause theory on its head, Eclair continues while sucking on a Silk Cut.
Symptomatic relief of teething discomfort includes sucking on cold teething rings or wash-cloths.
You snake your way through mangroves where trees stand tiptoe on their roots to avoid sucking up much brackish water.
He is the thinker of the gang, manifestly sucking his wisdom out of his thumb.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Cherrys are good, but they are too mutch like sucking a marble, with a handle tew it.
Does not the air pump, which you used in the experiments, on pneumatics, operate upon the same principles as the sucking pump?
The sucking Insects include all the kinds of plant lice, the squash bug and all the scale Insects.
Here is placed the pharyngeal pump which is provided with a sucking apparatus.
The scolex is about the size of a pin-head, and is surrounded by four sucking discs, but has no hooklets.
After the pipette has been filled by sucking at the end of b, the stop-cock d is closed and the cap c placed on the capillary.
It was as if the place was a vampire that was sucking the life and health from our veins.
In fact, she almost did forget them once or twice at moments when Janet McFadden was busy sucking the jaw-breaker.
There was a great gurgling and sucking in the darkness, followed by a gasp from the drinker.
They make the puncture and are interlocked with the labrum to form a sucking tube.
They moved by sucking in the water at one end of the lobe, and expelling it at the other.
The second crocodile hadn't finished yet, so he followed right after the first, still sucking his lollipop.
Other authorities speak of the general belief in witches sucking the dugs of cows in the form of hares.
The usual mode of milking is to leave the calf sucking on one side, while the milker sits on the other, and gets his portion.
The tube-feet usually have a tiny sucking disk at the tip, and by means of them the echinoderm can cling very firmly to rocks.
The latter had shrunk up in his chair and was looking as chopfallen and guilty as a dog caught sucking eggs.
The horrible doubts which he had driven away were sucking at his heart like a vampire.
There was a Low Country fellow there, waist deep in schnapps, and a Finlander sucking strong beer like a hog.
No wonder they hung around Durval's machines sucking up what free energy they could.
Thus furnished with all the requisites of a backwoods bivouac they are sucking it in gleesome style.
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