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Example sentences for: cradled

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One admiral declares that he was literally thus cradled, under the breast of a gun-carriage.”
A relief to turn from these pictures, which seem to prefigure our own sexually anxious age, to such comical dreams of resurrection as Spencer's exuberant The Dustman (1934), in which the Cookham garbage man has returned from the dead and is cradled like a baby in his wife's arms, while neighborhood children offer gifts of empty cans and other trash.
I cradled the telephone between shoulder and ear, poured, and—took a sip of coffee.”
It is said that she was buried with her infant at her feet, but when their bodies were exhumed, the child was found cradled in her arms.
Over the years, Jesse Jackson has got a lot of mileage out of remembering the blood of Martin Luther King Jr. that smeared his shirt when he cradled the dying leader in his arms.