cradle
Example Sentences
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In September, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, the cradle of the island’s chip industry, awarded Lo one of its highest honors for his technological feats.
He is cradling the ball in his left hand and warding off impending tacklers with his right, a striking bronze symbol of a university’s resilience and strength.
From Los Angeles Times
I told Sun I got to know Juan Romero, the Ambassador Hotel busboy who cradled the wounded Kennedy, whom he had met earlier while delivering room service.
From Los Angeles Times
“I know because I felt its pull after losing my son. I cradled vengeance like a second grief, a sacred companion. I told myself a story about right and wrong, about punishing the guilty.”
From Salon
The Paris he gives us might as well be cradled in a snow globe, it’s so schematically perfect; similarly, Ms. Kelly’s smile, which outshines the City of Light.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
