As strong winds moved around these structures, areas of low pressure emerged on the opposite side of them, creating suction forces that pulled at the buildings, causing them to sway back and forth.
Now imagine making this decision with a crying baby suctioned to your hip and you can see why a lot of new parents are positively at their wits end over parental leave policies.
This is a plunger or toilet plunger and it has a rubber cup at the end of the handle and you would use a plunger to unclog your toilet because it creates a suction to unclog everything in there.
It has led, in recent years, to renewed interest in Flettner rotors as well as other wind technologies, including rigid sails, giant kites and tall structures called suction sails.
So, floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it, when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex.
And eventually, those slabs get too heavy and break off, plunging slowly toward the core and creating a suction force that pulls mantle material along behind it.
Off the California coast, scientists measured a blue whale's heart rate for the first time, using a device attached to the animal's skin by suction cup.
Scientists know this because on the bodies of washed-up whales, they frequently find huge, round suction scars, emblazoned there by large, grasping tentacles.