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

I don't go out to the hospitals and dandle those kids on my knee.

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 dandles on his knee a little princess, daughter of Amenhotep III., whose foster-father he was, and who died before him.

From Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt by G. (Gaston) Maspero

Molière is kind to his bourgeois, envelops him softly in satire as in cotton-wool, dandles him like a great baby; and Coquelin is without bitterness, stoops to make stupidity heroic, a distinguished stupidity.

From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Arthur Symons

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 yellow beard caressed her burning cheek.

From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott

Then she dandles him in her arms, and packs off the little pinched hope of the family, so far as wishing can do it, to the domains of Licinus, or to the palace of Crœsus.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

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 could see the stream where Denna and I had dandled our feet.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

Recording the old popular tune “I Don’t Know Why” in 1950, for his outstanding Columbia Records debut, Garner’s fingers lick at the keys and he drags the melody along, dandling it, relishing it.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

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

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