[
UK
/kɹˈɔːlɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈkɹɔɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈkɹɔɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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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
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.