(v. t.) To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant.
(v. t.) To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet.
(v. t.) To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Soames spent many days at Chartwell, the Churchill family home, as a young boy, and remembers being dandled on the great man’s knee.
(2) His second wife's parents ran the home at La Preference, and the Guardian has found photographs of him in a Santa suit, dandling children on his knee at Haut de la Garenne.
(3) Born in the Sierra Leone bush, the son of a chief, he came to Stockholm to study engineering – it was he who introduced her mother to the music of Miles Davis, upon whose lap she was dandled as a child.
(4) At lunchtime, I talk to him as he dandles his twin babies on his knees, and is matter-of-fact, rather than techno-triumphalist, about what he's trying to do.
Dangle
Definition:
(v. i.) To hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion.
(v. t.) To cause to dangle; to swing, as something suspended loosely; as, to dangle the feet.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dumbbells were formed by the association of two hairpins with self-complementary dangling 5'-ends.
(2) A photograph of her confronting a row of police officers, a handbag dangling from her arm, became one of the iconic images of the 1970s.
(3) This paper describes a new method of reconstructing acquired complete and incomplete cleft earlobes which are elongated and have lost their normal bulk due to the wearing of heavy, dangling earrings.
(4) In contrast, d(GGGGTTTCCCCTTTGGGG) and the three corresponding 18-mers containing one G and two C tracts each forms a single hairpin duplex with a dangling single strand.
(5) In the first image , his brother looks like a cool New Yorker in a leather jacket, cigarette dangling from his mouth.
(6) A cigarette dangled from my lips as I rasped away at the audience.
(7) (2) For both core duplexes, 5' dangling T residues induce a greater increase in the optical tm's than 3' dangling T residues.
(8) In 2002 he was seen dangling Prince Michael II from the balcony of a hotel room while legions of photographers watched in horror below.
(9) Upon an increase in the temperature, two cooperative transitions were observed: formation of a double-stranded structure with a dangling x-(dT)12 extremity, then formation of a single-stranded coil structure.
(10) Photograph: Pasona Group At the Tokyo headquarters of the Pasona Group , a staffing company, tomatoes dangle from the ceiling, herbs grow fragrantly in meeting rooms and a rice paddy is the lobby centerpiece.
(11) Changing the conditions allows the same oligonucleotide in a duplex form with a (dT)12 dangling arm.
(12) While small stuffed birds used to dangle from rear view mirrors – the Maltese version of fluffy dice – such displays are now rare and hunters can face hefty fines of up to €5,000 (£3,600) and jail if they are caught killing protected species.
(13) As they attempted to free themselves, a sudden pull swept up her colleague, who was left dangling in the air between the whaler’s bow and a 10-tonne corpse.
(14) It's the second world war and your targets are the Nazis, so these are Nazi testicles housing billions of Nazi sperm: ovoid-shaped mass-produced bastard factories dangling in a funny pink skin sack with nut hairs all over it.
(15) The hierarchy of the hairpin transition temperatures is dictated by the identity of the first base of the dangling end adjoining the duplex in the order: purine greater than T greater than C. Calculated melting curves of every hairpin were fit to experimental curves by adjustment of a single parameter in the numerically exact theoretical algorithm.
(16) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
(17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
(18) With his little legs dangling and a look of intense concentration as he slowly writes new words for a homework exercise, it is a scene to inspire hope that the last UN millennium development goal (MDG) is making progress.
(19) • Calle de la Palma 76, no website Sala de Despiece Sala de Despiece The ceiling is a jigsaw of polystyrene fish crates; meat hooks dangle above your head; the bartenders dress as butchers and the menu is a delivery slip.
(20) Neville Thurlbeck claimed Colin Myler, the former News of the World editor, and Tom Crone, the former head of legal at the newspaper, had left him "to dangle as a suspect for the next two years" after he first told them in July 2009 that he had "final proof" that phone-hacking at the paper went beyond a single "rogue reporter".