Example Sentences

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As the baby suckles at the breast, it picks up more microbes from its mother’s skin.

From Nature • Mar. 6, 2018

The baby is put to the breast and suckles from a slender tube attached to the breast that delivers breast milk that someone else has pumped.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 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

After that, a calf suckles from its mother for about four months.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2013

After being held two or three times while the puppy suckles her, the ewe will generally adopt the little creature, and love it as well as if it was her own lamb.

From Minnie's Pet Lamb by Leslie, Madeline