swaddling

Example Sentences

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How familiar too is the fact that his little feet have kicked free of his swaddling, revealing 10 bare toes and the underside of one foot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

Video shows firefighters and emergency personnel delivering the child and swaddling the newborn in a white towel.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

"I pulled him up, I was swaddling him and I walked him up the hill."

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2024

Other statues represented gods and goddess, but also men, women and small children, wrapped in swaddling cloths.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

His arms and legs, freed from their swaddling, beat the air.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein