suckle
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The National Pig Association estimates 60% of UK sows are kept on indoor pig units and the majority of them give birth and suckle their piglets in farrowing crates.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2022
When he was first taken from Menari, Roux — who wasn’t yet named — couldn’t even suckle, said Forbes.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Meanwhile, Love Shaiska was struggling to suckle, forcing her parents to pull together cash to buy formula.
From Reuters ● Aug. 23, 2021
There was no guarantee that the other mothers would protect Lucy, much less allow her to suckle, as that would mean fewer precious nutrients for their own calves.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 20, 2021
Human wet nurses to suckle sickly faerie infants.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
After that, a calf suckles from its mother for about four months.
From Slate ● Feb. 14, 2013
As the cradle does not weigh much above two pounds, it generally lies on the mother's bed, who suckles the infant occasionally.
From History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing by Le Page du Pratz
“There is no food or water. Sometimes I have nothing to give the kids,” she said as her 14-month-old suckled on her deflated breast.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I watched as a ewe suckled two lambs that she had adopted in this way.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2024
“Good baby!” said a woman to one as it suckled on a bottle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2019
Then all of them going out from the dungeon took their pleasure; I suckled my child that was now faint with hunger.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
He had fallen overboard as a baby from the side of his father’s ship and been washed up on a desolate shore, where a female wolf had suckled him and kept him alive.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
There’s only so much suckling pig and paella one could handle, so I found myself seeking the finest examples of tomato bread, city by city.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
But a pregnant or suckling female is especially ravenous and will continue to forage for two for up to 1 year after giving birth.
From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2024
After clinical assessments, parents were provided the opportunity to introduce the modified pacifier for a 60 second measurement of their infant's intraoral suckling vacuum.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 29, 2024
In 2015, a research team from two U.S. universities tested tunes incorporating feline-centric sounds that included purring and a pulse reminiscent of suckling.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 2, 2024
We had roast young suckling pig and drank rioja alta.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
