pacifier

Example Sentences

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Prior studies have shown that non-nutritive suckling on a pacifier produces data that can be used to evaluate breastfeeding.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024

Make sure the crib is empty, other than the baby and perhaps a pacifier.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2023

About a third of the kiddos in most classes at the two Seattle area high schools where I teach have just checked out and use them as a pacifier.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

She called herself a "human pacifier" and reluctantly started co-sleeping before realizing she needed to make changes before going back to work.

From Salon • May 12, 2023

He sucked on his nummer, the rubber pacifier his mother had just begun to tell him that he was getting too old for.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman