suckles
- present tense form of suckle (3rd person singular).
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
Eve, with a distaff, suckles Cain in the background.
From The Dance of Death by Dobson, Austin
