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His body lay cradled in Sue's lap.
For Ballard, dissection enables psychological as well as physical forensics: "Sitting beside her, I pared back the skin of her shoulder, dividing the muscles and exposing the nerves of her brachial plexus, the strings that had once moved her arms as she caressed her husband, brushed her hair, cradled her child".
"Our religion does not permit us to touch small children and women, we don't kill children," he said, reading from sheets of paper as he cradled a Kalashnikov.
He held his pipes, high over his head at first to keep them from the wet (for while whisky was said to be good for the bag, salt water wasn't), then cradled in his arms to play.
The LED blanket bathes the baby in blue light instead of just exposing it to a light from above, improving the therapy and allowing the child to be picked up and cradled during treatment.Little, however, beats vanity and anything that hints at anti-ageing.
Mr Snow himself, pipe or unfiltered Camel clamped in his mouth, would wander between the bones and the TV, or the bones and his pot of ever-boiling coffee, sometimes with a skull cradled gently in his hands.
With a rubber-tipped stick strapped like a unicorn's horn to his forehead, and dosed with a new pill that calmed his neck muscles a little, he picked out one letter, then another, on a typewriter, "by a bent, nursed, and crudely given nod of his stubborn head":His own mother cradled his head but he mentally gadded here and there in fields of swishing grass and pursed wildness.
Cradled in her lap, Anisa's younger daughter Amina is just shy of her third birthday.
Rather than push him across the line Mr Antley jumped off, settling for third place, and cradled Charismatic's shattered leg, saving the horse's life.Unlike jockeys smaller or slighter of build, Mr Antley needed to lead a life of staggering deprivation to meet the strict weight restrictions of his trade.
Much harder to swallow are its claims that Pakistan's blundering spies had no idea that Mr bin Laden had been kept, probably for years, not in a remote cave on the Afghan frontier but cradled in the arms of retired and serving generals in a pleasant hillside town.
Overall, however, the PC has continued to follow its evolutionary trajectory from a 50lb (23kg) lump that dominated the desktop to a 1.5lb device that can be cradled in one arm or curled up with in bed.
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The primary grammatical function of "cradled" is as a past participle of the verb "cradle". It is often used as an adjective to describe something being held gently or securely, or as part of a passive verb construction. As Ludwig AI confirms, the usage is generally correct and accepted.
Expression frequency: Very common
