cradle

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2026

Longer consultations allow for continuity, she says, similar to when she started her career and family doctors gave "cradle to grave" care.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 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

The service combines traditional music with symbolic gestures such as placing a statue of the baby Jesus in a cradle.

From Barron's • Dec. 24, 2025

Her husband held her hand in one of his own, and used the other to rock the cradle that held the future of their new and no longer curséd family.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood