Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
dandle . - noun The act by which somebody is dandled.
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Examples
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And after Siegfried slays Mime, he sits around, dandling the dwarf's severed head on his knee.
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He plays with the long composition, repeating figures: there's Dad off to work; there's Kelly slaying buffalo; there's Lily and April sur l'herbe in their swim-team suits, lunching with the painter; there's Jimmy flinging U.S. currency to the wind; there's Connie dandling Erin; there's Ernest intently making a drawing, his first.
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Her father had looked about, dusted himself down, and said aloud the name of the place to his dandling child, his teeth good and strong in his smile.
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When your hand moves from side to side your dandling my dark abstraction and then when you send me to womb strewn I'm entirely marooned on the swoon.
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A girl of about eight seemed to be the designated babysitter, dandling a well-wrapped infant on her knee while simultaneously keeping a small herd of toddlers out from underfoot and away from the stove, where a batch of doughnuts was sizzling in hot lard.
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He could imagine her dandling a babe on her knee, crooning softly to it about hot cross buns and mulberry bushes as Mother used to do.
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She spent the rest of her childhood dandling babies, stirring pans, and forcing sodden washing through the family mangle.
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“You love your dog,” the vet said, her hand finding her throat and dandling the necklace there.
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He could imagine her dandling a babe on her knee, crooning softly to it about hot cross buns and mulberry bushes as Mother used to do.
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He'd be sitting round the fire dandling children on his knee, rather than running about on strange assignments for Cranmer and Catherine Parr.
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