crawl

[ UK /kɹˈɔːl/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɔɫ/ ]

VERB

move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
show submission or fear
be full of
The old cheese was crawling with maggots
feel as if crawling with insects
My skin crawled--I was terrified
swim by doing the crawl
European children learn the breast stroke; they often don't know how to crawl

NOUN

a very slow movement
the traffic advanced at a crawl
a swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick
a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body
a crawl was all that the injured man could manage
the traffic moved at a creep

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How To Use crawl In A Sentence

Now, gentlemen, standing up here before you, I feel a good deal like Pat, and maybe after Ive spieled along for a while, I may feel so darn small that Ill be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all! Chapter 14
Turning downriver, she kept the revs low, Night Watch just noodling along at a crawl. CORMORANT
Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward.
Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house. Greenmantle
Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
The letters were carved in a cramped scrawl, moonlight etching the crevices and staining the shadows silver.
It would be wonderful to crawl into bed, to ask Matron for an aspirin.