Cradling [verb]

He flung himself half-around on his chair so that his arms rested on its back, cradling his face.

Tenderly they lifted him up, cradling the blond, blood-soaked thatch in their arms, and bore him back to the city.

Through the open door, he saw Mrs. Kalaufa across the street, still cradling the child.

Heavy, heavy—his eyelids were drooping; the wet walls receding into a great darkness, a hand cradling his head.

Tongues of fire flared from the hole, speared to the ground and were deflected upward, cradling the metal ball in a wave of flame.

Shann made his way at an angle to avoid the smoking pit cradling the wreckage of the Terran ship.

Cradling him tenderly in his arms, he got quietly to his feet.

Crebillon had then ended by cradling himself in a sort of imaginary nobility.

The cradling boat and the patter upon the roof soon put us to sleep.

Green and Pinkerton were busy at the claim, cradling the last of the wash-dirt taken out.