dandle
verb (used with object)
to move (a baby, child, etc.) lightly up and down, as on one's knee or in one's arms.
had dandled
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past perfectof dandle.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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I could see the stream where Denna and I had dandled our feet.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
She had dandled and crooned over the boys as babies, and, as they had grown up, she had become almost as fond of them as the parents themselves.
From The Rushton Boys at Rally Hall Or, Great Days in School and Out by Spencer Davenport
She had seen Walter and Cicely married and had dandled their babies.
From The Eldest Son by Archibald Marshall
Jason took liberties; but they were the genuine heart liberties of a lifetime's service—and why not, since, as he was fond of saying, he had dandled his Master Jim as a baby on his knee!
From The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
For three days he had dandled a new-born joy, to find it stark upon the fourth….
From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates
