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
The picture has improved a bit since then—babies now breast-feed a little longer—but the over-all pattern holds.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019
It’s an unusual combination of autobiography, diplomatic history, moral argument and manual on how to breast-feed a child with one hand while talking to Secretary of State John Kerry on a cellphone with the other.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2019
The pope encouraged women to breast-feed their child if needed in the Sistine Chapel:
From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2018
For us, as in America, it’s known to be healthy to breast-feed.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
