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38 example sentences for CRADLE, such as:

1. The baby slumbered in his cradle.
2. Life is a battle from cradle to grave.
3. Greece was the cradle of Western culture.
4. Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
5. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRADLE
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cradle
 n.  small low bed for an infant, often furnished with rockers; infancy, or very early life
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  "The cradle of our race," she seemed to say.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
2  She had a daughter too, she told him, in the cradle.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
3  But the cradle was by the bounty of Heaven washed ashore.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
4  Wrapped up carefully to preserve it from damage and dry-rot was the old family cradle, of rosewood.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
5  I only hope this'll teach master not to have any more of these dreadful creatures, that are born to be murderers and robbers from their very cradle.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In I
7  So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  She was seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat's and everyone thought she should be content with her lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Clutching the wallet to her, Scarlett ran across the hall to the room where little Beau was sleeping in the low cradle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  From the cradle, Alfred was an aristocrat; and as he grew up, instinctively, all his sympathies and all his reasonings were in that line, and all mother's exhortations went to the winds.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  I was once Emperor of all the Russias, but was dethroned in my cradle.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
12  Within was a large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun hanging on the wall.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING
13  Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons decked.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF
14  Behind these beds, and half hidden, stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had cried all the evening lay asleep.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H...
15  After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, and nursed it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Example Sentence:
1  The baby slumbered in his cradle.
2  Life is a battle from cradle to grave.
3  Greece was the cradle of western civilization.
4  Greece was the cradle of Western culture.
5  The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
6  Fossil records indicate that Africa was the cradle of early human evolution.
7  There was a sweet smell, and this one he could identify: the bag of pine sachet his mother had placed first in his cradle, then, later, in his first real bed.
8  That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence.
9  It shivered in my heart, like a suffering child in a cold cradle; sickness and anguish had seized it.