How to Use teat in a Sentence

teat

noun

• 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
• Then, a calf, clearly exhausted, dropped onto its knees to nurse from its mother’s teat.
  — Jackie Caradonio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
• 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 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, 6 Oct. 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

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