swaddle

[ UK /swˈɒdə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. wrap in swaddling clothes
    swaddled the infant
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How To Use swaddle In A Sentence

  • His eyes widened as she unwrapped the sword from the black cloth she had swaddled it in.
  • 'decencies' that swaddle it, or that we best reverence such sacred object by a prurient prudish conspiracy of silence concerning it? Prose Fancies
  • She was gone before her baby was properly swaddled, and her name was just about all Virginie knew of her.
  • Traditionally, newborns were swaddled; today they are wrapped in warm blankets when they are very young, but swaddling is no longer practiced.
  • It often reminded me of modern _bassi-rilievi_ and portrait statues, in which gentlemen looking sideways with very modern faces, and both hands full of swords, pens, or books, stand impotently swaddled up in ancient togas or the folds of similar enormous cloaks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
  • swaddled the infant
  • On a transparent blue expanse, a swaddled figure lies in a passive curve, suspended in a heavenly hammock of spidery filaments, surrendered to the life of the mind.
  • Over an aching vocal performance, Tipton swaddles Nilsson all in bells, oboes, glockenspiels, blurted brass, pizzicato'd violins, and xylophones, bidding an elongated adieu to pop's previously ornate design.
  • Lastly , pull the lower corner up to tuck it under babys chin to complete a secure swaddle .
  • She sat by the fire, swaddled in a blanket.
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