Sentence examples for teat from inspiring English sources

'teat' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is most commonly used to refer to the nipple of a mammary gland, particularly in farm animals such as cows and goats. It can also be used to refer to the rubber or plastic nipple on a baby's bottle or pacifier. Example: The farmer carefully cleaned the teats of his cows before milking them.

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teat

noun

The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female mammals, milk is secreted.

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Just as I underestimated the sheer hard work involved in writing funny election columns, Cameron clearly thought being prime minister would be a lark, a breeze, and a wizard wheeze, something to chalk up on his business-class bucket list, along with getting a selfie with Helle Thorning-Schmidt and sucking the bass player from Blur's luxury cheese direct from the goat's teat.

Now that Cesc Fábregas is safely ensconced in Pep Guardiola's bosom, guzzling the teat of joga bonito, the world needs a new will-to-live-sapping transfer saga.

They discovered early on that the problem with philanthropy in Africa was finding partners "on the ground" reliable enough to do the work and not just suckle on the milksome teat of Seattle.

Many of the continent's biggest companies were suckled at the state's teat.

"A COUNTRY like this can put a satellite into space but it can't put a safe bottle teat into a child's mouth".

Mr Grunwald's instinct is to praise the splashing around of government money for untested new technologies which, when exposed to life without the government teat, may quickly wither.

How could anybody else draw lessons from a business in which "strategy" means finding a more comfortable position to attach yourself to the overflowing Pentagon teat?

This "teat" receives and transports nutrients from the hepatopancreas to the embryo, which uses its pharyngeal musculature to pump nutrients into its body.

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There was always some joker who tried to sneak a suck straight from the teat-like end, to see how long he could go before having to spew.

This is perhaps a glass-teat-half-empty point of view.

In fact, while this round of the raw milk fight may be over, it has left behind a nascent political movement — call it the Teat Party.

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