swaddling

Example Sentences

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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

The model also urges hospitals to keep infants in dark, quiet rooms with their parents; to teach skin-to-skin bottle feeding and lactation; and to support swaddling, among other treatments.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 28, 2023

He glared at Quentin, leaning forward over the table now, looking huge and shapeless as a bear in his swaddling of garments.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner