swaddling clothes

Example Sentences

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This is turning into a season of swaddling clothes; of adult snugglies and softness; of clothes so squishy they are like a portable form of self-care.

From New York Times

They are consciously not us — not working from home, not resorting to jeans and swaddling clothes — but they embody our official reference points.

From New York Times

Only on Wednesday, at last, did the Duke and Duchess present their firstborn, wrapped in swaddling clothes, to the prying gaze of the world.

From The New Yorker

A grateful Mary, mother of God, gave them a piece of the baby's swaddling clothes.

From BBC

She transformed herself into an astonishingly large hawk, descended on the child, gripped the swaddling clothes in her talons, and lifted the baby into the sky.

From Literature