verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
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Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.
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On a bench a young woman with red hair had been suckling her baby .
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Once, on the dunes, she opened her dress and suckled her baby .
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All she is fit for is to suckle a baby , that ancestor woman, that white ghost.
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During most of the sixteenth century, condemnation of women who employed a wet-nurse to suckle their babies was minimal.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Suckling me where your mouth suckled?
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But neither of these facts is of much relevance, for both apply to older children, not to suckling infants.
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For instance, an adult female will purr while suckling her kittens and when she courts a male.
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Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.
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It is the woman who conceives, bears, and suckles the child.
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On a bench a young woman with red hair had been suckling her baby.
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Pups suckle for three to four weeks before gradually learning to go their own way.