cradle

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times

Or that Winston Churchill—who in 1919 said Bolshevism should be strangled in its cradle—became Stalin’s puppet 22 years later?

From The Wall Street Journal

Did she mean that she went to their houses and played cat’s cradle, or went out for walks with them, or to secret parties at night?

From Literature

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

From BBC

The last thing Papa did was to make a two-baby cradle.

From Literature