cradle

Example Sentences

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The 2026 quota request didn’t pass Congress, and Mr. Bessent can kill it in the budget cradle this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Receivers who lunge and cradle in the air have nowhere to go.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

A spit of land with only 150 residents and cut off twice daily by the sea, it is considered the cradle of early English Christianity.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

The researchers explain this effect using an analogy to a Newton's cradle, the desktop device with a row of suspended metal balls.

From Science Daily • Jan. 7, 2026

Still, as Neewo’s miserable and now hysterical sobbing continued and even got stronger, she decided to make a grown-up decision and take Neewo from his cradle board.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich