teats

Example Sentences

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He said there was no longer any way of sterilising their milk and bottle teats to the required standard.

From Reuters • Nov. 13, 2023

According to the World Health Organization’s “Ten steps to successful breastfeeding” tips, health-care providers should “Counsel mothers on the use and risks of feeding bottles, teats and pacifiers.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 28, 2023

A good idea doesn’t stay secret for long, and fermented yogurt became part of the diet of people from Scandinavia to the Steppe, anywhere that animals’ teats were mined for their precious mammal-nectar.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2022

Since the mother does not have enough teats for all of the lambs, three will be reared by their individual mothers and two will be bottle fed.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022

And I’d seen eggs laid, bloody puppies wet and shimmery, calves encased in a blue bubble, slippery wet ponies thin and vulnerable, and hundreds of pink piglets suckling engorged teats.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago