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.
was dandling
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past progressiveof dandle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Som was on the cellphone with their older daughter, who was away at school; Niang, a teacher, was dandling their 7-month-old baby, their third child.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2015
Last week the Council of Europe, meeting at Strasbourg, was dandling the German problem on its knee.
From Time Magazine Archive
She was dandling on her lap some white object which he had not observed before.
From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang
At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees.
From Les Misérables by Isabel Florence Hapgood
Across the way, in a window opposite, a young man was dandling, twirling one side of a moustache, cocking a conquering eye.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
