bottle-feed
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Or bottle-feed a joey on Australia’s Kangaroo Island?
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023
Are you going to breastfeed or bottle-feed or some combination of both?
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2020
MeoowzResQ agreed to foster and bottle-feed the puppies, authorities said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2019
There was one occasion when my father was in black tie and my mother in a long evening dress and they were trying to bottle-feed lambs surrounded by poo.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2016
Over coffee they shiver: they themselves are fastidious, they will bottle-feed, which is anyway more sanitary.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Zoo biologist Michele Viana introduced me directly to Miguel, who was raised by hand and bottle-fed in rehab.
From Slate ● May 27, 2026
She shared black-and-white photos of herself posing in a suit, heels and a white lace bralette and another photo of her newborn being bottle-fed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2026
“The nutrition of every bottle-fed infant in America is at stake.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 17, 2026
The infant manatees had to be bottle-fed every four hours.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2024
Or get bottle-fed, if you’re a small blind kitten with a white dot between your eyes that only needs a little extra love to become a pouncing, lively mouser.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
But now we found ourselves bottle-feeding Hayden, as we named him, four times a day and later celebrating his successful use of the litter box like the proudest of parents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
“No one ever judged me, but I felt ashamed I was bottle-feeding and sad that I couldn’t breastfeed like them,” she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024
“Past the age of 6 months I will continue to support breastfeeding and bottle-feeding our daughter breast milk as much as possible, while also supplementing with formula only when absolutely necessary,” he wrote.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
“Your eyelashes freeze in minutes out here,” said Ms. Agan, adding that the biggest challenge was keeping her fingers warm, even in thick gloves, while bottle-feeding some of the calves.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
Mrs. Ortiz often fostered infants, so she spent many hours bottle-feeding them.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
