swaddle

She told police she had learnt how to wrap and swaddle babies on the job, and had had no formal training in how to put children down to sleep.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

“We knew absolutely nothing about child care. We needed someone to show us: This is how you change a diaper, this is how you swaddle, this is how you wash a baby’s hair,” said Zhu.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2024

Once you have those coveted white Nikes in your grasp, you lovingly clean and swaddle them in protective shoe covers, and save wearing them only for favorable weather days.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2023

The word “overbundle,” meaning to swaddle a newborn too tightly, appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

I get the kids out the pool, swaddle em up in towels.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Chasing down a comment on male-imposed expectations — and, more subtly, self-imposed ones — her macro lens swaddles everything in consumable lushness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024

They purchased supplies for the baby — a portable crib, diapers and wipes, a breast pump, onesies, swaddles, shampoo.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

There’s the Ostrich Pillow, a gray “ultimate cocoon” that swaddles your head so you can rest it on the tray table.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2019

It lives in the unglamorous and sleepless postpartum haze of breast pumps and swaddles.

From Washington Times ● May 2, 2018

The puke swaddles down the pillow onto the sheet—green-gray, with flecks of orange.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

I swaddled it in paper and successfully completed my introductions with a non-moist handshake.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

At a store selling harmonic healing devices, I watched a man cradle a swaddled Chihuahua within a 9-foot-tall golden pyramid structure in an attempt to heal the dog’s vertigo.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

Sloth jaws and sabertooth fangs and a truly astonishing amount of ancient vertebrae — all of it will be swaddled, catalogued and crated for the next two years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Based on those, she had thought that she had been abandoned in the street, her brother swaddled on her back with their names and ages pinned to their clothes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

I considered, scarcely daring to entertain the prospect, a father might hold me swaddled in his arms, and raise me to his sister’s lips.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024

Many people here treat their monkeys like children, swaddling them in cribs at night and dressing them in diapers — cutting a hole for their long tails to peek through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

There will be many more: hands grasping river silt, long fingers against the weave of a blanket swaddling a newborn, hands clasped in youthful want.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

He left behind no heir except Messer Giovanni, then only in swaddling clothes.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli