crawling

[ UK /kɹˈɔːlɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɔɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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 crawling In A Sentence

  • Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
  • We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.
  • For them there was no shelter from the cold, no shrewd crawling to leeward in snug nooks. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
  • The place is crawling with highly trained, professional researchers.
  • There was an old lady who swallowed a crab. why did she grad that crawling crab?
  • The demons were brilliant - creeping and crawling, twisting and writhing as one would expect them to.
  • It was not until 1985 that the law penalized the client for kerb-crawling, even though for many years it had penalized prostitutes for soliciting in the street.
  • I helped myself to breakfast, doing my best not to spill too many cornflakes and cleaned up afterwards, crawling under the table to chase stray flakes.
  • The jury did not know he had convictions for kerb-crawling in 1994 and, the following year, for indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14.
  • Borates are the most effective treatment for many crawling insects including, roaches, silverfish, larder beetles, carpenter ants, and other woodborers, as well as wood decay organisms.
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