What is "sucked up"

Usage examples of "sucked up".

And men irrigated, but the wind sucked up the water almost before it could seep into the ground.

The giant pines seem to have sucked up into their immense boles all the nutriment in the earth, and starved out every minor growth.

The end of this, of course, was that I gave down my liquor of love over his tongue and he greedily sucked up every drop, declaring it was most delicious.

She pulled up and her cheeks hollowed as she sucked up the stiff warm tube of male meat.

He lit a Lucky and sucked up the smoke as if it were orange juice.

The night-vision goggles Walker had borrowed from Farnsworth and Peel sucked up every bit of stray illumination and turned it into a sickly green glow.

Almost simultaneously, Hatch heard a great, reluctant throbbing from the Pit as water was sucked up from its depths.

Zacharias lost all sense of up and down, and he fell, but only smashed his face into the bundle of clothing that dissolved all at once into nothing until, when he took a coughing, wheezing breath, it was as if he inhaled all the dust of what had once lain there, sucked up into his mouth and lungs.