suckle
verb (used with object)
to nurse at the breast or udder.
was suckling
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past progressiveof suckle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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His wife, with a neckerchief tied round her head, was suckling a baby.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
She was suckling a new-born child, and another child, stark naked, was playing at her feet.
From Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Girls, girls!" scolded a young bride, who was suckling her plump little baby at the foot of the hill, "one ought not to joke about such things.
From Tales From J?kai by M?r J?kai
The woman was suckling them all, and all crowed alternately, so that they made the bare floors and walls light up as with pictures.
From Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend
Ephraim Phillips cautiously took the swaddled-up infant from the bosom of Milly where it was suckling and presented it to old Hyams.
From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill
