Sentence examples for like a cradle from inspiring English sources

The rambling three-story house between 33rd and 35th Avenues doesn't look like a cradle of the gay rights movement.

The canoe, anchored at the head of Moore's Pool, rocked like a cradle in the gentle grasp of the Upsalquitch River.

But now and then, as my car rocked to and fro in the wind, it also felt like a cradle, and I could almost hear a voice singing, "There is no one, no one, but thee".

AND Mr. Burns had to face the cantankerous world of jazz, where critics, academics and musicians are divided into hostile camps that can make the Balkans seem like a cradle of good will.

She finds herself desperate to belong, especially in terms of religion - but while by the end of the first year she's fingering her rosary like a cradle Catholic, there's also a "small core of rebelliousness" in her.

'There are two main ways of holding the wood,' said Alan. 'Either use your hand as a claw and grab it, or shape your hand like a cradle to lay the wood on.' I tried both and settled for the cradle.

It carries across the millennia the tales of its travels and the adventures of its crew: At first it is wordless, like crooning over a cradle, then it swells into a song.

"I felt I was swaying like a child in a cradle," the woman, Nutpisut Thongkika, a 50-year-old teacher, said in a telephone interview from Chiang Rai.

You'd connect your cable to a port in the back which would be wired to the cradle part of the AirCurve so you could drop your iPhone into it like a regular cradle.

You can wave a stick like a wizard, cradle a soccer ball whose hexagons are studded with wireless commands, or merely think deep thoughts and your TV screen will respond.

It's got a 30-gigabyte hard drive (a 60-gigabyte version will also available) and there will also be some accessories like a home cradle and a car GPS kit.