Claude Comley, a software designer, stood in Sydney's teeming railroad station the other day, with a frazzled look and a phone cradled in his shoulder.

Mickens was juggling a variety of tasks at his desk, the phone cradled to his ear as he pointed to a stack of résumés.

It strained against his soft cotton shorts and, without questioning his motives, he stripped himself bare before crawling into bed, phone cradled against his ear.

Mudger passed a Mercedes on the Jersey turnpike, heavy rain, the phone cradled between his head and shoulder.

"You didn't call me up just to congratulate me," Eric said, sinking down into the chair in front of the stereo with the phone cradled on his lap.

Adam stood at his desk, phone cradled to his ear, and reached for a coffee mug.

The phone cradled between his neck and shoulder, Eric looked down at his hand.

He grabbed the phone, fumbled it, cradled it.

Dillon shrugged as well as he could with the phone cradled on his shoulder.

As a customer-service representative at an insurance agency, she'd spend long hours with a phone cradled between her neck and shoulder.