How to Use suckle in a Sentence

suckle

verb
Definition of sucklenext
Synonyms for sucklenext
  • They're all nestled in a big bed and all pups are suckling fine.
    — Saryn Chorney, PEOPLE.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • What's even stranger is that once the eggs hatched, the creatures suckled their young, like mammals.
    — Matthew Martinez, sacbee, 31 May 2018
  • At one point in the video, the calf tries to suckle on the tires of the blue car, which could indicate that the calf thought the car was its mother.
    — National Geographic, 6 July 2017
  • Pulling the joey from its mother, Midson then cut the mother's teat, on which the joey was still suckling.
    — National Geographic, 1 May 2017
  • Some slaves, Jones-Rogers could say, were even known to serve as wet nurses, suckling the babes of their white counterparts.
    — Nathan Deuel, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • If Greece was founded by a princess raped by a bull, Rome was founded by a baby suckled by a she-wolf.
    — Simon Jenkins, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Martins knew that the kittens would at four months not be suckling anymore.
    — Bill Lindelof, sacbee, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The specialities are suckling pig, lamb, and some beef.
    — NBC News, 10 June 2019
  • The trenches resembled a litter of suckling piglets, and thus a nickname was born: pig iron.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2018
  • Hundreds of piglets — some even just a few hours after birth — are suckling, squealing and jumping around in their pens.
    — Casey Smith, Indianapolis Star, 10 June 2019
  • Kim tells the group baby Saint is no longer suckling from her sure-to-be-insured teet because North West wasn't having it.
    — Mariah Smith, Cosmopolitan, 21 Apr. 2016
  • The artist Saeborg Latex created the largest work in the show, a room-size inflated vinyl pig with suckling piglets.
    — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Like Romulus or Remus, I too was suckled by the Roman she-wolf.
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
  • Renfield suckles from the same vein, but gets barely a drop of hilarity from it.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Among the new offerings will be suckling pig and shareable paella.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 19 June 2017
  • Gillin said the method is used on suckling pigs and neonatal animals in the euthanasia guidelines.
    — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The high-ranking youngsters get to swim, play, and suckle from their moms in the pool, as the lower ranking monkeys look on dejectedly.
    — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2010
  • Cows munch lazily on hay; newborn piglets suckle their mothers’ teats.
    — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Surprising new research has revealed that the colorful great apes suckle for up to eight years, and in some cases longer.
    — National Geographic, 17 May 2017
  • Surprising new research has revealed that the colorful great apes suckle for up to eight years, and in some cases longer.
    — National Geographic, 17 May 2017
  • Xiang and his colleagues found that over the course of five birth seasons, more than 87 percent of infants suckled from females that were not their mothers.
    — National Geographic, 22 Feb. 2019
  • The last straw happened when Hera agreed to suckle the baby Heracles, a nice, forgiving gesture.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 30 Oct. 2020
  • But when a baby suckles a mom’s breasts, the mother’s brain’s posterior lobe secretes oxytocin, and some of that pain is relieved with the release of milk.
    — Julia Belluz, Vox, 15 June 2018
  • What kind of shameless black woman imagines a little white boy sucking on the tip of an African girl’s banana skirt as the girl also suckles herself?
    — Zadie Smith, The New York Review of Books, 11 Feb. 2020
  • His mother, Smita Umar, was herself malnourished, so Ali was born too weak to suckle.
    — NBC News, 17 Nov. 2021
  • Indeed, no visit to the island is complete without a meal of babi guling—spiced suckling pig—at a warung, the local version of open-air, street-food dining.
    — Elizabeth Woodson, ELLE Decor, 26 Mar. 2012
  • Observed off the coast of a Russian island, walrus moms tend to keep their babies on the left while bobbing along the waves, and their calves swam over to their mother’s left side before diving to suckle.
    — Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
  • The find indicates that the ability to suckle and feed on milk evolved before the last common ancestor of today’s mammals.
    — Riley Black, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2022
  • But once the new restaurant is up and running, Lamagna hopes to roll out a double-rotisserie rig once a month or so and cook lechon, the deeply bronzed roasted suckling pigs.
    — Michael Russell, oregonlive.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Executive chef Chris Flint plans to cook Benedict with rye English muffins and smoked salmon; and a breakfast burrito with suckling pig.
    — Jenn Harris, latimes.com, 19 Feb. 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'suckle.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: