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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Betty lived at Michael, ma'am, and died when her baby was suckling.
From Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon by Sir Hall Caine
‘Brick houses,’ said one woman, who was suckling a baby, ‘are so full of draughts.’
From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by George Smith
The latter, a radiant woman of smiling beauty, was suckling her latest born, with her other two children, Ewrag and Rosneven, respectively four and five years of age, at her side.
From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue
She had menstruated and was suckling a child sixteen months old.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
As he spoke he closed the door; and, taking up the light, approached the bed, where his wife was suckling the child.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various
