swaddle

She told police she had learnt how to wrap and swaddle babies on the job, and had had no formal training in how to put children down to sleep.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

But he’s also puckish – sylph-like and otherworldly, seductive and repellent, as likely to swaddle Sarah in her heart’s desire as he is to toss her into the belching, farting Bog of Eternal Stench.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

“We knew absolutely nothing about child care. We needed someone to show us: This is how you change a diaper, this is how you swaddle, this is how you wash a baby’s hair,” said Zhu.

From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2024

The word “overbundle,” meaning to swaddle a newborn too tightly, appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday.

From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023

I get the kids out the pool, swaddle em up in towels.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

Chasing down a comment on male-imposed expectations — and, more subtly, self-imposed ones — her macro lens swaddles everything in consumable lushness.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024

There are add-ons—sleep sacks and swaddles and sheets—that only work with the Snoo.

From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2023

Saran Rat: A trap that swaddles rodents in clear plastic film.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2019

It lives in the unglamorous and sleepless postpartum haze of breast pumps and swaddles.

From Washington Times ● May 2, 2018

The puke swaddles down the pillow onto the sheet—green-gray, with flecks of orange.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Based on those, she had thought that she had been abandoned in the street, her brother swaddled on her back with their names and ages pinned to their clothes.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Filippo Brunelleschi, the architect, designed the Innocenti building, while Andrea della Robbia, the sculptor, was responsible for depicting idealized versions of the swaddled infants the institution took in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025

That’s part of the life of a quarterback, the expectations of toughness and stoicism, and the reliance on improvisation, even when a hand is swaddled in a cast or heavy brace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

"With Love, Meghan" is like a Calm app episode with a host swaddled in creamy neutral tones.

From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2025

Her hair was swaddled in a beautifully printed scarf tied the same way Ella wore hers at night.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

How familiar too is the fact that his little feet have kicked free of his swaddling, revealing 10 bare toes and the underside of one foot.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

"I pulled him up, I was swaddling him and I walked him up the hill."

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2024

Many people here treat their monkeys like children, swaddling them in cribs at night and dressing them in diapers — cutting a hole for their long tails to peek through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2024

There will be many more: hands grasping river silt, long fingers against the weave of a blanket swaddling a newborn, hands clasped in youthful want.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

And'it was across the Tumblestone that they came home now, though the boy wore plate and mail in place of swaddling clothes.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin