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
Then when she had suckled him for thrice seven years, she led him out to the forest again and ordered him to pull up a beech-tree by its roots.
From The Shoemaker's Apron A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore
A woman in the company raised her voice in an invocation of blessing on the mother who had given birth to such a Son, and on the breasts that had suckled Him.
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
Dutch Debby sat beside Mrs. Simons at the table of that good soul's married daughter; the same who had suckled little Sarah.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
