dandle

Example Sentences

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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

His three children, now famed players Ethel, Lionel and John, would crawl on adolescent Ralph Modjeski's knees, and he would dandle them up and down.

From Time Magazine Archive

She turns that into a tune: “A moth-er, a broth-er, a fath-er. A doodle, a dandle, a candle.”

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech