How to Use swaddle in a Sentence

swaddle

verb
Definition of swaddlenext
Synonyms for swaddlenext
  • The woman swaddles the boy in cloth and nestles him in the straw.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Just as the lyrical, swaddling suiting in earthy shades at The Row makes sense.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2018
  • She was swaddled in two blankets wrapped up to her neck.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 4 Sep. 2019
  • His gift of hope, pardon, comfort and love was swaddled in cloths and placed in a manger.
    — Leslie Anne Tarabella, al, 12 Dec. 2019
  • In the shot, the little girl looked up at the camera as she was swaddled in a white blanket with a pink hat on her head.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • Tyler was barely born, a sack of warm flour and red skin swaddled in blankets on our couch.
    — Brianna Randall, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Kate wore a red dress and the new baby was swaddled in a white blanket with a matching white hat.
    — Alex Warner, Marie Claire, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Nurses swaddled the boy up in an Olaf the snowman costume.
    — David Williams, CNN, 22 Nov. 2019
  • For much of the second half of the Premier League season, Stamford Bridge was swaddled in green shoots.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 May 2024
  • In the early morning, the hills that flanked the dry riverbed were swaddled in mists that had drifted inland from the Skeleton Coast.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • Therefore, swaddling can be calming to them and help with comfort and sleep.
    — Samson McDougall, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That's where the travelers found Mary, Joseph and their newborn son, swaddled and lying in a manger.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The camera moves toward the crying babies, one swaddled in black, the other in white.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2020
  • The whole show felt choreographed to overwhelm even its star, and when Lana left the stage for the final time, she was carried off, swaddled in a white sheet.
    — Pitchfork, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Do not swaddle babies who are attempting to roll over or who are able to roll over.
    — Jessica Booth, Parents, 3 Apr. 2024
  • This week, Ramzy was swaddled in a onesie outgrown by another child in the camp.
    — Hajar Harb, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
  • But the child, which pops out pre-swaddled, is not what anyone expected.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Doctors swaddled Antonio’s arms in thick casts and braces and wired his jaw shut.
    — Lizzie Johnson, Washington Post, 3 May 2023
  • Women walk on the sand carrying items on their heads and babies swaddled in clothe on their backs.
    — Erica Ayisi, NBC News, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The thesis, bound by two clips and swaddled in an open-knit baby blanket, is held by Curtis in the photos.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 5 June 2019
  • Nurses had wrapped the tiny body in swaddling blankets anyway.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 6 June 2019
  • In the photo, Williams holds her daughter against her chest as the little girl is swaddled in a polka-dot blanket.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The staff at the Venetian—like everyone else in Macau—have their faces swaddled in surgical masks.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Both royal babies were swaddled in a white G.H. Hurt & Son soft wool baby shawl.
    — Lyndsey Matthews, Town & Country, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The girl’s body was swaddled in a blanket, completely dressed and showed no signs of physical abuse.
    — Josh Magness, miamiherald, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Delta banned straws, turned to compostable stir sticks, and stopped swaddling its utensils and amenity kits in plastic.
    — Jasmin Malik Chua, Vox, 9 July 2019
  • The second of my four children was very colicky: swaddling, sucking and swaying helped a lot and got us through that first year of her life.
    — Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • One is a note from his birth mother, and the other is the blanket in which the days-old baby was swaddled in when he was placed inside a shoebox.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Aggie was bottle fed every three hours (thus the 3 a.m. feeding) and kept cozy, swaddled in blankets in a storage box near the wood stove.
    — Rita Nader Heikenfeld, The Enquirer, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Further shots showed Katelyn smiling down at their little one, who was swaddled in a hospital blanket, and a close-up black-and-white snap of Krewe's feet.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 20 June 2024

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