dandle

Ropes dandle like a makeshift cape against her back.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2023

Buy your house and invite your mother-in-law over to dandle the grandkids on her knees as much as she likes, but don’t ask them to move in with you.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2016

And as I recline next to Lillian Hellman, I dandle Miss Kathie's adopted baby on my knee.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2010

On the Mississippi, Jimmy Carter drifted downstream in an imitation 19th century steamboat, waving, dancing and playing a calliope, stepping ashore periodically to shake hands, dandle babies and try to sell his energy program.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Lord Bronn would sound better. I could grab the boy for you just as well. I'll dandle him on my knee and sing him nursery songs if there's a lordship in it."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

The stately U.S. elm, which inspires the weekend artist and dandles the infant oriole, is in worse danger than ever.

From Time Magazine Archive

He smiled whimsically, and presently one arm swept beneath her knees, so that presently he held her as one dandles a baby; and presently his stiff and graying beard caressed her burning cheek.

From Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

A father who never dandles his child on his knee cannot have a very keen sense of the responsibilities of paternity.

From In Darkest England and the Way Out by William Booth

That mother, whose spirit in fetters is bound, While she dandles the babe in her arms to the sound.

From Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 by Thomas Hanly Ball

"And the flowers half-opened on the surface," replied Minha, "and which the current dandles like the breeze!"

From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Jules Verne

David Jordan, 53, of Northwest Washington, dandled his 6-month-old son on his lap as the rest of his family played on a blanket.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2022

Now he dandled a baby on his knee, greeted his former cellmate’s mother, checked his phone, answered a call, then yelled congratulations to another family.

From New York Times ● Aug. 13, 2022

And then we see Walt’s baby Holly, in a pink hat with cat’s ears, being dandled on Hank’s knee.

From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2012

Call the child to be dandled with rhymes,livened with drum-talk, cuddled and calmedwith flutes and fiddles, anthems and psalmody.Welcome the child with a sky full of chimes.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2010

I told her how I often recalled Sunday mornings at home when I dandled her on my knee while Mum was in the kitchen making a roast.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

And those who know Farage well understand his very human reluctance to see someone else dandling his baby on their knee.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2019

Moments later, Rick imagined him and his friends blissfully sitting around an al fresco table at Alexandria, eating a meal, with Abraham still alive and Glenn dandling Maggie’s baby.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 24, 2016

Som was on the cellphone with their older daughter, who was away at school; Niang, a teacher, was dandling their 7-month-old baby, their third child.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2015

He also moved back into the house without discussing it first with Skyler, then presented Scarface, with baby dandling on his knee, as fond family entertainment.

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2012

Then we sat on a stone, dandling our feet in the water and enjoying each other’s company as we rested.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss