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

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

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

"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

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

In one sit the servants   And band of musicians, Most busily playing;   The second one groans 140 'Neath a mountainous wet-nurse,   Who dandles a baby, A withered old dry-nurse,   A motionless body Of ancient retainers.

From Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia? by Juliet M. Soskice

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

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

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

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