Swaddled

In Goma, an eastern commercial hub, a young woman with a baby swaddled to her back had left a polling station the previous evening without being able to vote.

The large wrap, bursting with filling, was then expertly wrapped up like a swaddled baby and presented to me with a side order of piping hot chips.

A nursery worker who swaddled a baby girl and strapped her face down on a bean bag before ignoring her cries for an-hour-and-a-half has been found guilty of manslaughter.

Their success could be attributed to them simulating the reassuring touch akin to hugs, being swaddled, or cradled.

The jury heard that Genevieve had been swaddled and face down on the beanbag when she became unwell.

How do we treat heroes once they’ve become swaddled in controversy off the field of play?

Inside, swaddled in blankets, was her son, asleep.

Wrap tinfoil around each of your cotton-swaddled nails to keep the swab in place.

Dressing up as a baby is fairly safe, in his debut to the world, Archie was swaddled in all white blankets and a matching cap.

Murderers – including those whose guilt is not in dispute – are swaddled with special rights and privileges.

Police shared heart-rending bodycam footage of an officer tearing open the plastic bag in which she was swaddled.

In the video, Kylie cradled her niece, who was swaddled in a baby blanket.

I pass the bathing-room where freshly-washed people, some of them young but damaged, others gaga with senility, are swaddled like babies in big white towels.

It’s hardly surprising to see conspiratorial whispers attach themselves to the Trump White House — after all, Trump’s entire political persona is swaddled in conspiracy.

There is something unnerving about seeing it so close up on its easel; the black background, the heads packed together, the baby as tightly swaddled as a chrysalis – apart from his poor little fingertips.