cradle
Example Sentences
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In September, Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute, the cradle of the island’s chip industry, awarded Lo one of its highest honors for his technological feats.
“I like being cradled under that Bob De Niro umbrella,” Bibb said.
From Seattle Times
A group of them sit on a rickety bench cradling their gloves watching the training session.
From BBC
Instead of constantly crying, like their son had, Elena had “the worst cradle cap of any baby I had ever seen,” Martinez says.
From Seattle Times
A thin cotton cloth was all his mother Mohsena had to cover him, as she cradled her tiny baby under a flimsy makeshift tent, on an empty patch of land.
From BBC
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