Example Sentences

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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

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

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2013

Eve, with a distaff, suckles Cain in the background.

From The Dance of Death by Dobson, Austin