suckle
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On Thursday morning, she tried to get her 9-month-old daughter to suckle.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
The National Pig Association estimates 60% of UK sows are kept on indoor pig units and the majority of them give birth and suckle their piglets in farrowing crates.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2022
When he was first taken from Menari, Roux — who wasn’t yet named — couldn’t even suckle, said Forbes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Meanwhile, Love Shaiska was struggling to suckle, forcing her parents to pull together cash to buy formula.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2021
This continued throughout the day whenever he wanted to suckle.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
President Volodymyr Zelensky has been heeding a wise Ukrainian proverb: A gentle calf suckles two mothers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
It is named for the she-wolf who suckles twin boys in Rome’s origin myth.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
As the baby suckles at the breast, it picks up more microbes from its mother’s skin.
From Nature ● Mar. 6, 2018
When the infant suckles, sensory nerve fibers in the areola trigger a neuroendocrine reflex that results in milk secretion from lactocytes into the alveoli.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
And, finally, we discover that it suckles its young.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John Mason Tyler
I stared at Noah’s bobbing Adam’s apple as he suckled at his bottle.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
“There is no food or water. Sometimes I have nothing to give the kids,” she said as her 14-month-old suckled on her deflated breast.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I watched as a ewe suckled two lambs that she had adopted in this way.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
They were discovered by a female wolf and suckled by her, eventually growing up and exacting their revenge on their treacherous uncle.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
He had fallen overboard as a baby from the side of his father’s ship and been washed up on a desolate shore, where a female wolf had suckled him and kept him alive.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
We’re prescribed to order cochinillo asado, the roasted suckling pig in the book, and sopa de ajo, garlic soup just for fun.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
But a pregnant or suckling female is especially ravenous and will continue to forage for two for up to 1 year after giving birth.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
The other half, whose data patterns were abnormal, and whom the algorithms identified as needing a frenotomy, did benefit from the operation with much improved suckling behavior after the surgery.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
In 2015, a research team from two U.S. universities tested tunes incorporating feline-centric sounds that included purring and a pulse reminiscent of suckling.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
Uncle Bertram honed his knife, then homed in on the problem: how to carve a roast suckling pig. hyper/hypo.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
