suckle
IPA: sˈʌkʌɫ
noun
- (obsolete) A teat.
- An act of suckling
verb
- (transitive) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.
- (intransitive) To nurse; to suck milk from a nursing mother.
- (transitive) To nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).
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Examples of "suckle" in Sentences
- The mothers suckle their babies.
- Do you mind if I suckle my baby
- Immediately, the newborn begins to suckle.
- They taught mothers how to suckle their babies.
- They also will suckle even when the mother leaves.
- His voice lowered as he bent to suckle at my neck.
- The mother returns periodically to suckle her offspring.
- The need to suckle is instinctive and allows newborns to feed.
- After the birth two Hathor goddesses suckle the baby and its astral self.
- These “Judas Goats” here want big govt. and to suckle from the breast of it.
- They snuggle up to their mother and suckle for the three additional months that she hibernates …
- Since this is a contest whose winners will suckle daily on the teat of special interest money, the "greed" is all but implied.
- Totally random thought, I love how the verification words are sometimes real words or close to real words...today it's "suckle"
- Now, perhaps once male numbers were manageable enough, once we’d stopped allowing them an automatic and entitled suckle at the female teat, we could consider the possibility of educating the brutality out of them.
- His nipples had become tight raisins of need, and she brushed them with her fingers and then bent to suckle them, putting tears in his eyes as he moved against her harder when she finally sought his mouth again for a kiss.
- But viewers will hear some flat lines, some predictable lines and, well, some memorably awful lines, such as "Music is magic and magic music" or "You were so young then, mischievously playing in my puddles" or -- brace yourself -- "See their songs suckle on society like the stained lips of rape children to their wavering mother's breast."