was dandling
- past progressive of dandle.
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
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 Hapgood, Isabel Florence
She was dandling a sad baby while the sad baby sucked a disk of salami, heavy with spices.
From Across the Fruited Plain by Means, Florence Crannell
Ransey was dandling Babs upon his knee, but he now put her gently down beside the cat.
From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Stables, Gordon
