suckle
verb (used with object)
to nurse at the breast or udder.
suckles
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present tense formof suckle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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President Volodymyr Zelensky has been heeding a wise Ukrainian proverb: A gentle calf suckles two mothers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
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
Nobbles obliges, old pardner, and great is the power of "form"; Rads may rail at "the clarses" like ginger, but all on us likes to be "warm," And rub shoulders with suckles more shiny.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 16, 1890 by Various
