suckle
verb (used with object)
to nurse at the breast or udder.
had suckled
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past perfectof suckle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The act of suckling her infant had symbolic importance, for she could plead with the son she had suckled as no one else on behalf of sinners she thought worthy of heaven.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Very different was the little girl Andree, whom La Catiche had suckled.
From Fruitfulness by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly
At this time she had suckled a very hearty baby for ten months, and was not able to furnish such good living as usual.
From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis E. Anstie
She was out of work, and food had been rather scanty; she had suckled the dead baby as long as she could, but her milk dried up.
From Orientations by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
