suckle
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Mazakpwe cited a range of lactation issues mothers can face, from sore nipples to babies born too sick or too weak to suckle and stimulate milk production.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 1, 2024
On Thursday morning, she tried to get her 9-month-old daughter to suckle.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 21, 2022
Meanwhile, Love Shaiska was struggling to suckle, forcing her parents to pull together cash to buy formula.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2021
There was no guarantee that the other mothers would protect Lucy, much less allow her to suckle, as that would mean fewer precious nutrients for their own calves.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 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
Persons who are interested in the doings of the class Jeames calls the "hupper suckles," will perhaps be a little disappointed, as, truth to tell, the narrative is rather homely.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 by Various
The other two are named Romulus and Remus, after the mythical founders of Rome said to have been suckled by a she-wolf as infants.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 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
And as God willed, no longer did he need to be suckled, nor did I take fever; that I might not be tormented by care for the child and by the pain of my breasts.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
"As a babe I suckled on icicles, boy. I like the cold."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Roast pork belly redolent and tender as Castilian suckling pig.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 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
Prior studies have shown that non-nutritive suckling on a pacifier produces data that can be used to evaluate breastfeeding.
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
I will never forget Romulus suckling the Tiber.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
