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.
have dandled
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present perfectof dandle.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I have dandled you on my knee many and many a time; I know the very house, yes, the very room, in which you were born.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris
O my dear child,— I love thee so, I cannot call thee king,— Whom I so oft have dandled in these arms!
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
But I have dandled Madame as a child on my knee, and her wish is law; wherever her fortunes lead, I must follow.
From The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
They have dandled the baby on her knee, and supported the little toddler taking his first steps.
From Rembrandt A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
I have dandled your sons and daughters, Roberta, and may I live to dandle theirs!
From The Martian by George Du Maurier
