Example Sentences

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“I was my mother’s only daughter,” Ms. Phillips notes, “the one who would inherit the dishes, the cradles, the women’s things, and the stories.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

In the tender maternity shoot, Jepsen cradles her bump in bed alongside Marsden Greif-Neil.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

Surrounded by Renaissance masterpieces, this was a meeting in one of the great cradles of Western civilisation.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2025

If it seems to many of us that Jones has been with us since we were in our cradles, that’s because he was.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024

What about a little motor attached to the cradles to rock the babies to sleep?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr