How to Use teat in a Sentence

teat

noun
  • Reba’s teats are firm and warm.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Cows have stopped feeding calves because their teats are scorched.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Dents and crevasses pockmarked her teats.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The lucky ones latch onto the teat and stay attached for up to 3 months.
    — Cheryl Conley, Houston Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2018
  • If one milk meter doesn’t attach to a teat, the machine will record that.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Our would-be managers and planners are, in fact, useless as teats on a boar hog.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 4 Feb. 2020
  • A lot of those cattle are still alive but the hooves are burned off, the teats on their udders are burned off.
    — Anna Betts, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The platypus's milk seeps through pores in its abdomen, not through teats as in all other mammals.
    — National Geographic, 30 July 2016
  • 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
  • The babies make their way to mama's pouch where only 13 teats are available.
    — Cheryl Conley, Houston Chronicle, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Then, a calf, clearly exhausted, dropped onto its knees to nurse from its mother’s teat.
    — Jackie Caradonio, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Colleges won’t need donors - just endless access to the federal teat.
    — Neetu Arnold, National Review, 20 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • Other workers have chronic pain from the repetitive motions of attaching tubes to cow teats hundreds of times a day.
    — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 3 June 2024
  • There is no waiting for Josh Gordon to finally pass enough drug teats to be eligible.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 26 July 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Dairy farm workers typically express milk by hand from cow teats before attaching milking equipment.
    — Lena H. Sun, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the initial stages of its life, a baby kangaroo, known as a joey, faces the crucial task of maneuvering through its mother's fur to reach and secure itself onto a teat within the pouch.
    — Maeghan Dolph, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • One of the more puzzling developments in states’ rights conservatism has been the combination of don’t-tread-on-me militancy with a determination to keep sucking on the federal teat.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • The young remain firmly attached to the milk-giving teats for a period corresponding roughly to the latter part of development of the fetus in the womb of a placental mammal (eutherian).
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026

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