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Example sentences for: cradle

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Concord’s literary heritage is rich indeed, for it was the cradle of Transcendentalism and the place where Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry David Thoreau all wrote.
In the meantime, Connery whisks her to his castle on an Inverness loch, where he rigs a cat's cradle of red string to represent the lasers that she won't, at the site, be able to discern.
It’s difficult to miss, in this proud cradle of New France, that the town is borrowing a leaf from the book of the modern French republic by calling its provincial parliament the Assemblée Nationale.
The big surprise is the discovery of talent in director Curtis Hanson, who was roundly drubbed for a previous film, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle . "Nothing in Hanson's previous work ...
the name of “Spud Island,” a less grandiloquent alternative to “Cradle of Confederation”), tourism rates as the number two industry.