Cradle example sentences

In1831, Cyrus McCormick invented the first mechanical reaper which could cut in one day as much as five men could cut with cradles and 16 men with sickles.Before the 1830s, the grain used to be harvested with a cradle or sickle.Poets and artists lauded Greece as the cradle of European civilisation and mobilised public opinion to support its struggle against a Muslim empire.He sat frowning at the oily component he cradled in his hands, as though it were a small dumb animal and he was willing it to speak.