How to Use sucker in a Sentence

sucker

1 of 2 noun

• That kid is a mean little sucker.
• He's just a con artist looking for another sucker.
• Just write that sucker down, hang it on the tree and voila!
  — Allyson Reedy, The Know, 20 Jan. 2017
• Jones picked this up easily and did what Jones does: reel in the sucker.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• Black horse-braid knots ran up and down her arms like the suckers of a cephalopod, or spikes of armor.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• But the principle remained the same: Don’t be a sucker.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• On the lower Colorado there, a lot of it is species of suckers, which are fairly good sized fish.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
• This may have been the biggest sucker Jones ever caught.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
• The young are suckers for rebellion, and Spencer’s is a rebel movement.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
• In their place: What kind of sucker would not press all his advantages?
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 May 2017
• There’s a sucker, a boxing fan and a Cowboys fan born every minute, and bless us all.
  — Vince Langford, star-telegram.com, 7 May 2017
• The caterpillars sport suckers on their undersides that let the larvae glide and stick to the bottoms of leaves.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
• Only the suckers are spending big money now—best to wait to see what works for others.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2023
• This included 21 trophy-sized smallmouth bass and a brown trout, along with dozens of suckers and carp.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 14 June 2023
• The suckers have sensors that include not just feeling, but also smell and taste.
  — Mark Graves | , oregonlive, 23 June 2023
• So take note, Chargers suckers, er, fans: The folks who own the 49ers did not install their son as the team’s football president.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
• To maintain a tree-form, establish a single trunk and remove suckers at the base.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 19 Feb. 2024
• Pando’s problem is that it’s comprised of too many old suckers.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
• With the exception of this sucker out in Tonga, for the most part, people are not impacted by them.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• This has been portrayed as a ‘sucker punch’ and a random occurrence.
  — Ken Ritter, The Seattle Times, 12 May 2017
• Women's Health editors are suckers for a good pair of running shoes, but that's not to say there hasn't been some sneaker flops here and there.
  — Lily Wohlner, womenshealthmag.com, 16 May 2023
• Each sucker has about two cirri — which are fleshy, nipple-like structures.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
• There are also chocolate suckers available in a variety of shapes for $2 to $3 each.
  — Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 8 Feb. 2024
• Realistic replicas of firearms: No to carry-on, but go ahead and check that sucker.
  — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
• Reporters who take him seriously should know that they too are being played for suckers by the likes of Roger Stone and Steve Bannon.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 26 June 2023
• Yet, for employees, being played for a sucker is hardly good fun.
  — Nate Bennett, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• These suckers are caused by the herpes virus and, unlike canker sores, can easily be spread via skin-to-skin contact like kissing.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 18 Mar. 2024
• Popular baits include shrimp, squid or pieces of dead herring, pikeminnow or sucker.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Living in the present is for suckers who don't have access to Max's wide-ranging catalog of science fiction shows.
  — EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
• Made of 18-karat yellow gold, the animal features white diamond suckers and black diamond eyes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 26 Mar. 2024

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sucker

2 of 2 verb

• Melt that sucker down in a saucepan and enjoy a nice soup.
  — Colin Stokes, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2020
• The fake to the running back suckered in the Cincinnati linebackers, who were stuck in no-man’s land.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2019
• Here’s what to expect in the inevitable event that you are suckered by a subway discount code.
  — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 14 June 2018
• These women will vow not to be suckered in because been there, done that and stirrups as street wear are ridiculous.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
• Apparently the Morouns think Mr. Trump can be suckered out of it.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 July 2018
• Ordinary humans suckered this time will click more cautiously on the next one — or not click at all.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity.com, 8 May 2017
• Sizer gave Mesa 50 percent of what his boiler room suckered from its phone targets.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 26 June 2017
• At a rigged roulette wheel, they’re taxed at a higher rate than businesses or the wealthy, then, via shell game, suckered into subprime mortgages.
  — Daryl H. Miller, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• There are horror stories of mobile games that seem designed to sucker people out of their money.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• In his plays, naturalism is a red herring, designed to sucker you.
  — New York Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• These trees have strong and spreading root systems that sucker readily.
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2019
• While Charlie Brown dodged kite-eating trees and got suckered into football pranks, his dog soared, swooped, battled, danced, skated and, best of all, wrote.
  — Steve Bennett, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Dec. 2017
• And so, in the end, all this really proves is that women below the average marrying age are more likely to be suckered by a sparkling rock.
  — Aimee Levitt, Chicago Reader, 10 Apr. 2018
• His team suggests the president was suckered into making a bad call by Mr McConnell.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Too many of us journalists get suckered into going along.
  — The Hive, 13 Jan. 2017
• In the case of the filibuster, Democrats really do have the power in their hands, and truly have nobody else to blame if they get suckered into handicapping themselves.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 28 June 2018
• After his presidency, he was suckered once more, partnering with a Ponzi schemer who left Grant ruined.
  — David Plotz, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• But Trump’s belief that Americans have been suckered by bad trade deals turned out to be much more deeply held than the elites realized — especially with the pro-market forces weakened and marginalized in the West Wing.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• The commercial web steams on as a hopped-up, strung-out system of hyperlinks, engineered to mix Barnumesque humbug with authentic reports, and to overlap ads and news—the better to sucker the eye.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 23 May 2018
• After returning home from Good Sam’s and eating dinner, the kids suckered me into accompanying them on their walk around the neighborhood with Bucky.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2017
• The people who get suckered into marrying or reproducing with them have been through enough hell, and don’t need or deserve to live under a cloud of suspicion ever after.
  — Carolyn Hax, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2018
• The roots will continue to sucker until dead, so regular (as in possibly weekly) removal of suckers will be needed, probably for a few years.
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2019
• Edwina is suckered in by the Union corporal, John McBurney, who knows of her heritage and manipulatively speaks to her acute feelings of otherness.
  — Corey Atad, Slate Magazine, 20 June 2017
• To fall in line with their line of thinking is to acquiesce on choice and be suckered into believing the tired sentiment that only another old white man can defeat Sweet Potato Saddam.
  — Michael Arceneaux, Essence, 14 Aug. 2019
• What connects all of us who get suckered into emotionally investing in these quirky sports that pop up once every four years at the Olympics are the moments of agony and opportunity written on faces and shouted in fist pumps.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2018
• Instead, the show bubbles over with goofy in-jokes about product placement, bad money management, and the highly specific Hollywood danger of getting suckered by one’s scheming influencer spouse.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Acting as the teen, Boynton Beach undercover detectives suckered Mitchell into sending pornographic images of the teenager.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 4 Apr. 2018
• At first, criticism of this decision focused on the prospect that our prodigiously ignorant, easily flattered commander-in-chief would get suckered into a lopsided peace deal.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Mar. 2018
• Unlike The Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) tree found in middle America, bottlebrush buckeye is a vigorous, suckering shrub.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 19 July 2019
• KrebsOnSecurity said that a fraud investigator for a midsized bank had several customers who got suckered after searching for the customer support line for Amazon.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024