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

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

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 the child of the forest on his shoulder instead of his children by you in the house.

From Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen

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

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

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

Angie dandled our infant daughter off to the side of the kitchen while we pretended to cook something for the camera.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2017

Ms. Cruz, 24, dandled the baby, Brandon, and offered juice.

From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2012

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

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

Elsewhere, hugging Down syndrome kids on a rope line and dandling her own on her lap, Palin is downright inspirational.

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2012

Mrs. Zielinski had been a great friend of my mother’s, dandling baby Helena on her knee.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron