breast-feed

Example Sentences

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She plans to breast-feed as long as she can, aiming for a year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

So researchers are left mainly with observational studies, which examine the babies whose mothers have chosen to breast-feed.

From The New Yorker • May 27, 2019

As the guards lined up the families on Tuesday night, Moore saw a woman breast-feed a toddler in the middle of the road.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2018

The study’s authors said that the woman was able to exclusively breast-feed the infant for six weeks.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2018

Another problem was that I refused to breast-feed.

From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola