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How to use suckle in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun, verb

Suckle means a teat. Example: “The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.”

Examples of suckle by meaning

nounAn act of suckling.

  • The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.

verbTo give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.

  • A relief of a goat suckling her young.1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 21

verbTo nurse from (a breast, nursing mother, etc.).

  • Buz attempted to suckle his left nipple.1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Avon, published 1983, page 60
  • The baby suckled her.1997, Ridley Pearson, Beyond Recognition, New York: Hyperion, page 129

More sentences with suckle

  • Positioned thus, Lehua suckled her newborn son.2012, Michael Herr, The Old Queen and the Maui Maiden, page 13. From the entry okole
  • The mother digs a nursery burrow and deposits the puggle, returning every 5 days to suckle it until it is weaned at 7 months.2012, Joseph Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology, page 498. From the entry puggle
  • Sometimes, a willing female partner will permit her partner to suckle at her breast while pouring milk onto her breast to simulate lactation.2001, Stephen T. Holmes, Ronald M. Holmes, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behaviour, 2 edition, Sage Publications, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry diaperism
  • The majority of peasant farmers in the tropics allow the calf to suckle before milking in order to obtain a let-down of milk.1990, WJA Payne, An Introduction to Animal Husbandry in the Tropics. From the entry let-down
  • Their blood and body temperatures are warm and constant, and they bring forth living offspring — and produce milk to suckle their young whalelings with.1937, Henry Goddard Leach, Forum and century - Volume 97 - Page 108. From the entry whaleling
  • A lamb falls to the ground, i.e., begins to eat grass instead of being suckled when about five weeks old, for then they have had their fulth of milk.1924, Yorkshire Dialect Society, Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, page 41. From the entry fulth

Meaning of suckle

  1. noun A teat.
  2. noun An act of suckling.
  3. verb To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs.

Full definition of suckle

Questions about suckle in a sentence

How do you use suckle in a sentence?
Suckle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The baby was having a suckle at its mother's breast.”
What is a short sentence with suckle?
“The baby suckled her.”
What does suckle mean?
Suckle means a teat.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: suckle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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