cradle
Example Sentences
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When he cradled him in both hands, J.W. keened and moaned but didn’t thrash.
From Literature
Snow had drifted into his nostrils in a cruel parody of breath, but his ice-filmed eyes were open, staring at something Torak couldn’t see: something that was cradled in the crook of his dead arm.
From Literature
Receivers who lunge and cradle in the air have nowhere to go.
From Los Angeles Times
Or that Winston Churchill—who in 1919 said Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle—became Stalin’s puppet 22 years later?
Did she mean that she went to their houses and played cat’s cradle, or went out for walks with them, or to secret parties at night?
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
