suckle
verb (used with object)
to nurse at the breast or udder.
had been suckling
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past perfect progressiveof suckle.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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She had been thinking only of her baby, she had been suckling it for several days, and it had given her pleasure to suckle it.
From The Untilled Field by George (George Augustus) Moore
In her lap was an infant, which she had been suckling, though now it had fallen asleep; so had the young mother herself for a few minutes, under the drowsing effects of solitude.
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various
In her lap was an infant, which she had been suckling, though now it had fallen asleep; so had the young mother herself for a few minutes, under the drowsing effects of solitude.
From A Changed Man; and other tales by Thomas Hardy
