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
The child wishes to be constantly at the breast, and suckles eagerly, but vomits the milk shortly after, usually curdled.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
