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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cradle .
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Examples
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The Captain cradled the baby girl throughout the ceremony, surrounded by his favorite male and female concubines.
365 tomorrows » Hoist That Rag : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2005
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The Captain cradled the baby girl throughout the ceremony, surrounded by his favorite male and female concubines.
365 tomorrows » 2005 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2005
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Exquisite too is the Kohinoor Diamond of a dub cradled among rocks on the Black Sails ridge above the plunging depths of Red Dell on one side and Coppermines Valley on the other.
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Certain it is they are rocked on the deep from their birth, "cradled" in the sea, sleeping on their backs in the water, clasping the young in their arms like a human being, tossing up seaweed in play by the hour like mischievous monkeys, or crawling out on some safe, sea-girt rocklet, where they shake the water from their fur and make their toilet, stretching and arranging and rearranging hair like a cat.
Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward 1903
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"Up, now, my friends, to the palace of the czar, where these usurpers dwell and inflict upon you the shame of calling a cradled infant your emperor.
The Daughter of an Empress Nathaniel Greene 1843
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"cradled" the dying man in his arms after Martin stabbed him.
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His words came cradled in his light but distinctive Portuguese accent.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He set down the large, wide-mouthed glass cradled between his hands.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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His words came cradled in his light but distinctive Portuguese accent.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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He set down the large, wide-mouthed glass cradled between his hands.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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