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Examples of sucked

sucked

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

But there will not usually be other complex components as components get 'sucked into' the dominant component before becoming complex.
People find themselves 'sucked into an argument' - 'we can't talk with each other; we talk to each other'.
The patient explained that he had felt restlessness in the mouth and chewed gum and sucked candies to relieve this sense of inner restlessness.
Sucked pods were tagged, labelled and monitored daily till they were harvested.
The low-speed critical suction limits are also measured and a design criterion, based on the sucked streamtube characteristics, is established.
So the mobilized member is often 'sucked in' precisely because of the particularist appeal rather than general environmental appeal.
He sometimes chewed gum and sucked candies.
The characteristic longitudinal vortices were not predicted and the sucked streamtube now extended between adjacent holes, thereby removing all the boundary layer below a certain height.
It has been suggested that the size of the sucked streamtube envelope (figure 1) has a similar effect to that of a roughness element, for which many data are available.
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