How to Use swaddle in a Sentence

swaddle

verb

• He swaddled the baby in a blanket.
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• And when the game was made, their fencers embraced each other on the piste and swaddled themselves in American flags.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 28 July 2024
• 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
• The first picture showed Taiga just after his birth, swaddled in a hospital blanket while lying in a bassinet.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024