Example sentences for: sucker

How can you use “sucker” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Losing his life savings to a menacingly fey Russian gangster (John Malkovich) in the first 10 minutes, Damon's Mike has you rooting for him not only to get payback from the weird Russki but to take what he can off anyone dumb enough to sit across a card table from him, accepting the rightness of the line "It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."

  • 1) The gross-out scenes (one youth shtups an apple pie; another drinks a beer laced with semen) are just "sucker bait to entice teenage audiences into the tent to see a movie that is as sweet and sincere at heart as anything Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland ever experienced" (Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ). 2) Grossness is the film's essence: "[D]irty jokes are inserted at regular intervals like pop songs to perk up the action ...

  • I mean, you'd think a guy with all that high-tech know-how could do something about that sucker.

  • They sucker the poor with false advertising, do a lousy job at raising revenue (only 34 cents of every dollar spent on lotteries goes to state treasuries), and are magnets for corruption.

  • An inmate is downgraded to sucker by breaking the rules, one of which is never, ever, to reveal the secrets of the anti-language, no matter what pardon or privilege is offered.


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