swaddle

Cookson told police she had learnt how to wrap and swaddle babies on the job but 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

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

Eva’s last child, Plum, to whom she hoped to bequeath everything, floated in a constant swaddle of love and affection, until 1917 when he went to war.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison

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

A crucial part of spinning, the researchers found, requires the spidroins to separate themselves from the watery buffer that swaddles them inside silk glands — a step that hyper-concentrates the proteins.

From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2020

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

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

That’s part of the life of a quarterback, the expectations of toughness and stoicism, and the reliance on improvisation, even when a hand is swaddled in a cast or heavy brace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

And swaddled with some sort of soundproofing material.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

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

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

He glared at Quentin, leaning forward over the table now, looking huge and shapeless as a bear in his swaddling of garments.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner