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Example sentences for "cradled"

Lexicographically close words:
cracks; cracksman; cracksmen; crackt; cradle; cradles; cradling; craft; crafte; craftes
  1. The Master slept, cradled on the bosom of His own sea.

  2. Are you to remain here cradled in the lap of nature?

  3. Field was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a rural village nook which lies calmly and peacefully cradled among the green Berkshire hills, a spot which would delight the eyes of a true artist.

  4. Only five minutes from the time the vessels struck, and all that was then the Princess Alice lay cradled in the mud at the bottom of the Thames.

  5. The Christ had evidently been conceived in her mind, and cradled in her heart, even before He became a conception of her womb.

  6. How did I ask of Pity's care, To shield and strengthen, in thy breast, The nursling I had cradled there.

  7. I compared myself wandering alone in darkness and sorrow, on such an awful errand, to the fair, smiling being cradled in wealth, then doubtless sleeping in her bed of down, watched by attending menials.

  8. A few days after his departure, as I was seated in the nursery, watching your innocent witcheries as you lay cradled in the lap of Peggy, I was told a lady wished to see me.

  9. We passed to and fro between Washington and the two family homesteads in Tennessee, which had cradled respectively my father and mother, Beech Grove in Bedford County, and Spring Hill in Maury County.

  10. Deathlike yet lovely, every feature speaking In such dear calm and beauty to my sadness, And cradled still the mother's heart, in breaking, The softening love and the despairing madness.

  11. Soft cradled thee thy fortune till to-day; Thy duties thou couldst exercise in sport, Indulge all lovely instincts, act forever With undivided heart.

  12. The engines were left running and a short time later, like a tired child, the Tropic Queen cradled herself in a bed of soft sand and her voyage was over.

  13. Cradled in the heaving seas it was watched by scores of anxious eyes on the Tropic Queen, now in her death struggle.

  14. And so he takes it all in; the stone bed empty and waiting; the Beloved cradled for the last time on His mother's knees to be washed, lapped round, and laid to rest as if He were again the Babe of Bethlehem.

  15. Mr. Cook was standing on the porch, feet braced apart, a rifle cradled in his arms.

  16. Checking to make sure the safety lock was on, he cradled it in his arms and turned to Mr. Cook.

  17. With the telephone still cradled to his ear, he maneuvered the cord across the desk and sat down in the chair behind it.

  18. She is a Mutilla, the scourge of the cradled grubs.

  19. In them, the atrocious assassin of cradled children lies hidden under the splendour of the garb.

  20. He had loved her as well as his own Russell, and his wife, who cradled her in her arms and taught her to walk by clinging to her finger, would almost as soon have parted with her son as the little Electra.

  21. I cradled you in my arms, lest death should snatch you.

  22. So, cradled on the heart that loved her best, Sylvia was gently carried to the end of her short pilgrimage, and when her husband laid her down the morning had already dawned.

  23. Deep as was her husband's love it did not possess the soothing power of a woman's sympathy, and though it cradled her as tenderly as if she had been a child, Faith's compassion would have been like motherly arms to fold and foster.

  24. But He was cradled as a little child, that men might revere humanity for the sake of Him who had graced it; that they, thinking on Him, might be good to one another and to all little children.

  25. Wassail for the kingly stranger Born and cradled in a manger!

  26. And cradled there in the scented hay, In the air made sweet by the breath of kine, The little child in the manger lay, The child, that would be king one day Of a kingdom not human but divine.

  27. In the tumult of the air Rock the boughs with all the nests Cradled on their tossing crests; By the fervor of his prayer Troubled hearts were everywhere Rocked and tossed in human breasts.

  28. Mist on the mountain height Silvery creeping; Incarnate beads of light Bloom-cradled sleeping, Dripped from the brow of Night.

  29. It was no longer empty: there lay a child asleep, a little babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes and cradled in the manger!

  30. She had never realised so vividly that the Lord Jesus Christ was indeed born in a stable and cradled in a manger; and she trod softly, with her heart beating, like Joan's, faster than usual.

  31. As he approaches the salt water, a succession of the most beautiful and picturesque lakes seems to be lying softly cradled in the arms of wild, rocky forest shores, whose outlines are ever changing with the windings of the road.

  32. He was awake, sitting up, smiling down at her, and she was cradled in the curve of his arm.

  33. She cradled his head against her breast and sobbed as he died in her arms.

  34. There can be no true liberty until our children are cradled in it, educated in it, taught to hold it as the air, without which they cannot breathe.

  35. The girl is an aristocrat--nourished on blind superstition, cradled in tyranny," said his brain.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cradled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.