How to Use teat in a Sentence

teat

noun
Definition of teatnext
  • The dog’s teats are full and four puppies stay close by.
    — Sarah Fowler, The Seattle Times, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The lucky ones latch onto the teat and stay attached for up to 3 months.
    — Cheryl Conley, Houston Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The titular son of Son of the White Mare suckles at the teat of the titular horse for 14 years.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
  • If one milk meter doesn’t attach to a teat, the machine will record that.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • They aren’t deadbeats sucking on the teat of the government.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • Our would-be managers and planners are, in fact, useless as teats on a boar hog.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Cows have stopped feeding calves because their teats are scorched.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • The platypus's milk seeps through pores in its abdomen, not through teats as in all other mammals.
    — National Geographic, 30 July 2016
  • The platypus's milk seeps through pores in its abdomen, not through teats as in all other mammals.
    — National Geographic, 30 July 2016
  • The babies make their way to mama's pouch where only 13 teats are available.
    — Cheryl Conley, Houston Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Her young foal is tied to her rear leg to trick her into thinking that its mouth, not your hands, is tugging at her teats.
    — Douglas Girardot, Washington Post, 2 May 2023
  • Within a month they are no longer permanently attached to the teat.
    — Anthony Ham, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The Magnolia owner offered a YouTube star a drink of milk, delivering it to him...straight from the cow's teat.
    — Selena Barrientos, House Beautiful, 13 Sep. 2019
  • As a farmyard pig who has just had a litter, Gunda has a tag through her ear and a hungry, needy little mouth clamped to every teat.
    — Jessica Kiang, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Mother devils are kinder to the four survivors, carrying them around, attached to their teats, for a hundred days.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • And when the camera drifts over the hay toward a lone piglet that’s yet to find its way to a teat and, soon after, Gunda lands on that piglet with an unforgiving hoof — more cries.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Cows munch lazily on hay; newborn piglets suckle their mothers’ teats.
    — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Since Beau only has ten teats, Barrett is helping the dog feed the 13 puppies, bottle-feeding those who can’t find a space during feeding time.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 28 Oct. 2019
  • For example, the algorithm may suggest adjusting the type of teat drip, the nutritional content of the feed or the amount of time each cow spends feeding.
    — Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
  • The parish, in a town called Calbe, had removed for restoration a sculpture of a Jew suckling at a pig’s teat, but then decided to retire it altogether.
    — Jasper Bastian, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
  • There is no waiting for Josh Gordon to finally pass enough drug teats to be eligible.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 26 July 2017
  • One day this past October, Ms. Stefanik stood in front of a dozen gigantic bins of bovine teat cleanser, decrying the war on chocolate milk to a nodding crowd of farmers.
    — Nicholas Confessore, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • For an elephant, keepers had to trick a nursing mother into letting them stimulate one of her teats.
    — Serena Solomon, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Her foodie travelogue is careful and vivid, going well beyond flatbreads and koofteh to sheep’s feet, milk teats and rosewater.
    — Max Watman, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2017
  • These carnivorous marsupials give birth to dozens of tiny, hairless imps—up to 50 at time—but only offer four teats in their pouches.
    — Brian Handwerk, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • The firm that stands out among those fattening themselves off the taxpayer teat is Amazon, which has taken in nearly $10.4 billion in federal contracts, according to the IPS.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The unflappable Luke Skywalker, formerly a shimmering, golden Jedi, has become an aged, crotchety beard-o who drinks green sludge from the teat of a space aardvark.
    — Steve Heisler, Chicago Reader, 4 May 2018
  • While the cows chow, a robotic arm, similar to the kind that pops quarter panels onto frames in auto factories, swerves into position under the cow’s udder, where lasers guide the gripper toward the teats to clean them.
    — Jason Nark, Philly.com, 5 July 2018
  • Clinical signs include blisters around the muzzle, tongue, ears, teats and coronary bands, the agricultural department said.
    — Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 2 Aug. 2019

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