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suckle - use in sentences
Object
- milk: Sometimes, special dental plates can be used to seal the roof of the mouth to help the baby suckle milk better.
- child: There are songs in the crevices of every happy child; a bitter life for the child suckled on anger.
- lamb: Suckling lambs with orf lesions may be disinclined to suck and ewes with sore teats may not let their lambs feed.
Modifying Another Word
- naturally: For calves born to beef cows this can be achieved by allowing the calf to suckle naturally.
- then: All the mothers will then suckle any of the cubs, allowing the others to go hunting.
Preposition: with
- bedding: Their piglets try to suckle with no bedding as comfort.
Modifying Another Word
- not: He had entered the field to feed a calf, which was not suckling.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: No more will we periodically have pictures paraded across our television screens of starving fly covered children suckling up to their starving mothers.
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