Meanings
Verb (5-dan, う, transitive)
1. to smoke; to breathe in; to inhale
2. to suck; to sip; to slurp
3. to absorb; to soak up
4. to kiss
Kanji used
suck
Pitch accent
Top 1700
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
to smoke a cigarette
to smoke a cigarette
to be onto a good thing; to make money without working; to line one's pockets
Examples (25 in total)
Do you smoke cigars?
Paper absorbs water.
Inhale, and exhale.
The baby is sucking his finger.
Paper absorbs oil.
You don't smoke, do you?
I need to stop smoking.
A sponge absorbs water.
Take a deep breath, please.
He sat on the bench and smoked.
This paper doesn't absorb ink.
I didn't know Tom smoked.
"Do you have a match?" "Sorry, I don't smoke."
Tom never used to smoke, but he does now.
This towel really absorbs water well.
My father neither smokes nor drinks.
My father used to smoke, but now he doesn't.
The air we breathe consists of oxygen and nitrogen.
His teeth are yellow from smoking too much.
When I take a deep breath, a pain runs down the right side of my back.
The tall guy smoking a cigar over there is a famous director.
He went outside for a breath of fresh air.
The very air we breathe is polluted with smog from the factory chimneys.
How many packs of cigarettes do you smoke a day?
She went outside to get a breath of fresh air.