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

"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

August started to sing then in a humming sort of way, “ ‘Mary brought forth her firstborn child and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the manger.’

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd