The pump sucks water through this foam and spurts or trickles it back, often creating a distinct current.

The pump sucked air with a wet gurgling, the sound drowning Rhin's reply.

He would have chuckled at her reasonable tone, but the hot pump between his legs sucked the humor right out of him.

It begins with an almost frantic sense of emptiness inside oneself, as if the pump of one's heart were sucking on air.

Five hours later, the game long canceled, the pump was still sucking water from a ball field that recently underwent a two-year, $985,000 reconstruction.

She turned to peer down into the crevasse, where the pumps were sucking the meltwater from around the hydrogen fuel complex.

And of course the pumps are above the tanks; without some kind of rather complicated priming, a reversed pump could suck only air.

The pumps sucked the good air out and let the bad come in.

The pumps sucked the tank deck dry and suddenly one could stand without clinging on to the chart table.

Round and round would go the crank, but the pump would never suck dry.