- present participle of milk.
milking
Example Sentences
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When bovine TB led to the loss of his entire herd, dairy farmer Mervyn Kelso struggled with the sadness of the empty fields and the silence of the milking yard.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
He has already moved on from assailing the frontier labs to milking them by selling them compute at a steep markup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Sometimes you lose because the cow kicked off the milking machine. Something just happens,” he said.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
“But he said no cows. He might have been traumatized by the early mornings and milking twice a day.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026
Jaya pressed a button on the side of the milking parlor and the door hummed open.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
