swaddle
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She told police she had learnt how to wrap and swaddle babies on the job and had no formal training in how to put children down to sleep.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 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
Can you imagine a daytime talk show host asking the late Madeleine Albright to swaddle frightened voters?
From Salon ● May 1, 2024
Don’t use loose blankets either — swaddle or use a sleepsack instead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
She’s wearing a halter and I hold on to it, but mostly she stays still as I swab out her nostrils and swaddle her throat in flannel.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
Saran Rat: A trap that swaddles rodents in clear plastic film.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 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
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
He lay swaddled in a blue furry blanket and asleep, while his mother recovered nearby.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
The Monogram Series of the Mercedes-Maybach, a sub-brand that competes with Rolls-Royce and Bentley, comes with an eye-catching logo and swaddled in Nappa leather.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
She leaped into bed and swaddled herself in the most beautiful quilt Ella had ever seen.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
Toler said she enjoyed her quiet morning swaddling the monkey and was happy it would receive the care it needs at the Oakland Zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2025
"I pulled him up, I was swaddling him and I walked him up the hill."
From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024
The model also urges hospitals to keep infants in dark, quiet rooms with their parents; to teach skin-to-skin bottle feeding and lactation; and to support swaddling, among other treatments.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
I wrap my love for Marie into a tight ball of mental swaddling.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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