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.
But atavistic, or vestigial, geotropism in Genesistrine -- or a million larvae start crawling, and a million little frogs start hopping -- knowing no more what it's all about than we do when we crawl to work in the morning and hop away at night. The Book of the Damned
Zack, all beaming blondness and supersocial to the core, charmed all the guests, crawling on the lawn and the deck, raising his arms to ask people to pick him up. Falling Apart in One Piece
These are almost invariably twisty, wet, uneven, covered in spilt diesel, negatively cambered and crawling with fools.
The food isn't very good, and the place is crawling with criminals.
If you have a fireplace, get a proper fireguard to put in front of it - those of you with children already crawling will know how fast they can move.
They saw the pillars of society pulled dowry by an unseen Samson and watched the victims crawling painfully from the ruins. Inflation and War Finance
A study condiected by the Home Safety Council shows that although 95 percent of parents claim they took measures to babyproof their homes, a suprising 50 percent waited until their children were already crawling. Toys 'R' Us partners with Home Safety Council on child safety program
But actually they are crawling upwards all the time. At first they twist this way and after a moment they would turn the other way.
The deterrents could well prove useful in deterring them from kerb-crawling and helping to make Goitside respectable again.
Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, light-handed, heavy-hearted. The White Silence
Bierce also fought at Chickamauga, which lends its name to the title of his powerful story of a lost little boy playing with a wooden sword who wanders into a forest and comes upon "freaked and maculated" men crawling and falling in battle. Lacerating Wit, Seasoned Cynic
The crocodile was crawling along the riverbed
According to reports in Panama, the teenagers spotted the creature crawling out of a cave while playing in the town of Cerro Azul north of Panama City. The Lovecraft News Network
What would a representative of such an august organ be doing in an urban fastness of Fife at 11.30 pm if it was not kerb-crawling?
That apple is crawling with worms.
Pain rippled outward from her womb, crawling up her spine and down her legs. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Itching, tingling, and ‘formication’ (sensation as of crawling insects) are also common symptoms due to bubbles forming in the skin.
‘Their place is going to be crawling with bodyguards and other low-life goons,’ he mumbled.
His temples burned and his sores itched, like a thousand worms underneath his skin, crawling and burrowing deeper, ever deeper inside him.
They seemed to be crawling in the tunnel for a lifetime before they found another grille.
When the kerb-crawling is banished, what happens to the street workers? Sex Workers: Once again, what’s best for us? « Bound, Not Gagged
Bill's always crawling to management, hoping for promotion.
So we are crawling through traffic on Bedford Avenue, passing jerk chicken shops, coiffeurs advertising braiding and corn rows, music shops blaring reggae, salsa, zouk, RocB, hip-hop, fusion music of all kinds.
You may think your home is babyproofed, only to learn the hard way that a crawling 10-month old has zero qualms about digging under a heating vent to find a Cheerio that rolled under there during the Carter administration - and then eating said Cheerio. Meredith Lopez: Adventures of the Tricksy Hobbit
Although crawling predators, such as spiders, were occasionally able to enter predator exclosures through ‘ant entrances,’ net bags were nevertheless very effective at excluding predators.
You have not been long enough in India to case-harden into the cursed egotism of this hard-hearted land, and remember, age, crawling on, has indurated old A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story
From here the route becomes a bit of a blur as a section of flat crawling and squeezy bits were negotiated, until we eventually arrived at the head of the Serendipity Pitches.
Sanford is a creep, without any perspective on how he may be viewed, and, his most recent skin crawling disclosures show a narcistic side. Sanford leaves to visit family in Florida
It was a regular antheap all the way in, with the miners crawling over the tree-clad slopes, and the ceaseless thump of picks and scrape of shovels and ring of axes, and ramshackle huts and shanties and sluice-boxes everywhere, with dirty bearded fellows in slouch hats and galluses cussing and burrowing, and claim signs all along Sweetheart Mine, Crossbone Diggings, Damyereyes Gulch, and the like. Isabelle
A conservation success story is crawling through the swamplands of South Florida, northernmost home of the American crocodile, Crocodylus acutus.
A deputy head teacher has been suspended from a North Lincolnshire primary school, awaiting trial on charges of kerb-crawling.
On ascending the ladder and crawling inside, smoke from the hearth stings the eyes. Times, Sunday Times
A deputy headteacher's career is in ruins after he was convicted of kerb-crawling in a notorious red light area.
This whole huge area was crawling with soldiers, and each wave of a heavy gun resulted in quick, frightened obedience from the people.
And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes. Chapter 7
They knew their business, crawling up over him, the motion of their limbs, and their bites and stings, arousing him. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
I'm always suprised by ones crawling about on the next level down!! landshark Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else'
The parley, so far as Raoul was concerned, proved fruitless, and he went back into his own lines convinced that the men on the Big Rock could hold out for years, though he would have been swiftly unconvinced could he have observed Tehaa and the Raiateans, the moment his back was turned and he was out of sight, crawling over the rocks and sucking and crunching the scraps his dog had left uneaten. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
He survived by crawling on the stumps of his legs and begging for food. Times, Sunday Times
The tingling was back and she rubbed her hands against arms that felt alive with bugs crawling over her skin. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
There have been numerous attacks in recent years as people were trapped in the crawling traffic. The Sun
ThinkGeek's Crawling Zombie Torso Gelatin Mold is just what every elegant dinner party needs, especially if you make an aspic-and-baby-marshmallow gelatin salad with it. Boing Boing
I love shallow, weedy, silted up estate lakes to pursue crucian carp, tench, bream and carp and I love the sort of creeping and crawling tactics needed to get within inches of the fish.
No sooner do I lie him flat when, whoosh, he's on all fours again and crawling off at top speed.
A little girl who was sitting in the row in front of me had lent me her copy of the play a moment before, and now, absorbed in Dr. Furness's argument, I forgot the book wasn't mine and began scrawling controversial notes in it with my very thick and blotty fountain pen. The Story of My Life
We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.
Walking is better than crawling in slow traffic, wasting fuel and adding to air pollution.
Later, staring up at the ceiling, you picture yourself being lifted up and crawling out of this painful skin, then walking around the room, free at last, a protoplasmic blob. In the Valley of the Shadow
In the beginning, the area had been crawling with soldiers and bristling with guns.
The admin worker woke when she felt something crawling on her. The Sun
Once he was filmed crawling along the ground singing as he approached a sow and two cubs.
Young children are prone to picking up germs because they spend time crawling on the ground and don't wash their hands as frequently as adults.
One of a pair of identical twins was given a lot of early practice at a particular skill, such as crawling.
In response, the girl just cowered away from him, crawling backwards on her hands and knees.
Never work on roofs without proper crawling boards and roof ladders.
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.
A new study shows that although 95 percent of parents claim they took measures to babyproof their homes, a surprising 50 percent waited until their children were already crawling. Baby & child health and safety news roundup
A strong warning has been sent to men who trawl Rochdale's streets for sex after four were caught kerb-crawling in what the police described as a ‘name and shame’ operation.
I suddenly felt an insect crawling up my leg.
Unfortunately, it has blown its budget and will have to come crawling to Congress for the money it needs to start over from scratch.
He looked with compassion at the creatures crawling over the hollow log.
Nick bellowed in pain, as she scrambled for her purse, crawling away.
During a divisional vice operation in the Listerhills area, four men were arrested for kerb-crawling and three women were detained for soliciting.
As Martin approached the disrupted field he was taken aback by the beauty he beheld, for as long as the web had lasted, perhaps the last 300 years, and as long as he had Crawling it, he had never before seen such intense light. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
He became abusive; Abelard was a crawling viper (coluber tortuosus) who had come out of his hole (egressus est de caverna sua), and after the manner of a hydra (in similitudinem hydrae), after having one head cut off at Soissons, had thrown out seven more. Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
Statutory regulations binding on both parties required crawling boards to be used on fragile roofs.
Wigg had his own brush with authority in 1976 when the police charged him with kerb-crawling around Marble Arch. The charge was dropped after Chapman Pincher, a Fleet Street contact, told the court that Wigg drove around the area not to pick up women but the first editions of the morning papers. Betty Bothroyd The Autobiography
To explore the hole you needed a very long ladder and a strong constitution: it stank and was crawling with rats.
Sooner or later you will find one or more adult insects crawling around inside the cage.
The insects are crawling all over each other, searching for escape.
See, now will I charm this snaily from its cell with the air that Réné taught _me_," and together the two heads bent over one of the vicious little "desert snails of Egypt," which young Isabelle of Tyre had found crawling along the casement of the palace. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
This place is gonna be just crawling with military by morning. DESPERADOES
I currently have at least 6 species of insect larva crawling around the front yard, and I just checked.
I look for products that contain lemongrass oil and geraniol, these work quite well without that skincrawling feeling I get from Deet. How Bad is DEET?
Other than the ‘eyes’ of the Crawling Eye model, the conodont is revealed to be a very ordinary sort of vertebrate.
Irrespective, this evidence establishes the existence of actively crawling organisms, almost certainly bilaterians, and almost certainly above the grade of planarians because of the implied hydrostatic skeleton.
Three prisoners escaped by crawling under the wire.
She glanced down to find a kitten crawling up on her boot.
Let's say that the person you are competing against in the California GOP Senate primary releases a political advertisement that is expensive and deranged, with fake sheep crawling around with lite-brite eyes in a field, and a terrible, malformed metaphor that actually insults the fiscal conservatives whom everyone wants to win over. Luckily For Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' Ad, Her Competitors' Responses Have Been Terrible
Next time I see a chief engineer crawling around the bilges will be the first time. San Andreas
He didn't relish the thought of crawling to anyone's feet; it wasn't even something he did for most women.
She sought sanctuary in the guest room, closing the door behind her and crawling under the covers.
You don't have to look far to see these dumb creatures crawling across the branches of many organizations today.
A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
Little Amy was crawling around the floor in a "Daddy's Girl" onesie.
Next thing you know, the t-shirt companies will come crawling to you, asking for you to be their ambassador!
From 1 April the police will no longer need to establish that a man is "persistently" kerb-crawling before arresting him. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
There's an insect crawling up your leg!
Without their hands-on mother there to steer them clear of trouble, they also meshed with the new generation of club-crawling, hard-drinking, sometimes drug-taking aristocrats. William and Kate
To look at them crawling about on deck or in the rigging is enough. CHAPTER XXXV
The admin worker woke when she felt something crawling on her. The Sun
What most cheese - be it blue, hard, soft, or crawling off the cheeseboard - really likes is a mature soft, savoury, spicy, gently oaked red with few tannins and restrained fruit.
Here, wetting defects, such as cissing, crawling and even bad adhesion of the paint film occur.
Crawling into a cave to hibernate, the bruins survive winters of hardship by going back into the uterine Earth.
The place is now crawling with thick-necked men with attitude.
A plush Volvo of latest make was crawling up a narrow lane squeezing itself into the gap between houses like a gleaming dagger into a tight sheath.
I picked up the flower and looked at it closely; the petals were white but the inside of it was pink and a tiny black beetle was crawling around.
Some individuals also experience extreme hallucinations, such as the sensation that there are bugs crawling beneath the skin.
By nightfall, this place will be crawling with soldiers.
In my mind, I had pictured a Medusa, a pox-ridden hag with missing teeth and long, dirty fingernails crawling with worms, yet standing before us was a woman who looked proper and stately, hair in a bun, apron neatly ironed, nails trim and pink. Deadly
The place was crawling with gun-toting security men.
The gecko glowered at Nawin with appetite and fixed interest as if he were an esculent appetize -- the gecko crawling on the railing of the BTS Skytrain station looking down at the small womanly morsels and traffic below and amorous Nawin doing the same but as he glanced up dizzyingly at the facade of the colossal Intercontinental Hotel with its eerie pale-blue light diffused throughout, he felt like he was falling into a deep - blue eternal space. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
When they are miles high in the air they can count the ants crawling on the ground. The Story of Doctor Dolittle
I was talking to an older lady when I noticed a spider crawling in her lacquered hair.
Miguel was parking the car-backing up, crawling forward, until the trunk of the Ford Escort ahead gleamed with his headlights.
The application of bands of burlap or "tanglefoot," or of other substances often seen on the trunks of elm trees is useless, since these bands only prevent the larvae from crawling down from the leaves to the base and serve to prevent nothing from crawling up. Studies of Trees
There I found Camponotus schmitzi workers crawling on pitcher plants that grow as vines at the base of the meranti.
Flies were crawling in one pad when it was removed. Times, Sunday Times
Inside it is crawling with maggot-like insects.
My sweatshirt had ridden up a little bit, exposing about two inches of skin, which was getting quite the tickling as she was nosing around and crawling over to my other side, so that now she is on the edge of my bed that is not up against a wall.
While the lawsuit has been crawling through the system, everyone involved seems to have had a change of heart.
He released his grip and began crawling forward on his hands and knees.
So if I go there this summer it will be crawling with maddening crowds? Times, Sunday Times
But no search engine factors truthfulness is crawling the Web for Web links relevant to your search query. CPA fined $33,000 after blaming Google for mistake
There was at least 20 police vehicles, and the station was crawling with them.
Worst of all, though, was his penchant for kerb-crawling around Baghdad. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Police in Bolton are to crack down on kerb-crawling following the murder of two prostitutes in the town.
A writhing mass of white snow-snakes hissed, crawling from hidden cracks and crevasses in the bifurcations of the cave-rocks.
A million red ants crawling inside a silk sheet, that was what I should have seen.
He pictured himself now, crawling in the mud of a ditch, filthy and wretched, scampering in retreat.
The victim apparently tried to escape from the attic fire by crawling toward the furthermost point from the chimney, where a cubbyhole might have provided an exit.
I was dying to be with my pals and witness the crawling procession, but I had been made to hold a bottle of rose water, which I must sprinkle on the guests as they sat down on carpets, leaning against bolsters.
On ascending the ladder and crawling inside, smoke from the hearth stings the eyes. Times, Sunday Times
She would always talk to us about our troubles, help us when we cut our knees crawling through the undergrowth and give us ice creams.
On the evening of the 5th of October a small snake and several very large scorpions came crawling about us as we sat round the fire; we managed to bottle the scorpions, but though we wounded the snake it escaped; I was very anxious to methylate him also, but it appeared he had other ideas, and I should not be at all surprised if a pressing interview with his undertaker was one of them. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
What's the point if you don't tackle kerb-crawling and prostitution?
Yes | No | Report from jamesti wrote 5 days 12 hours ago muley, if they don't get hunted, they will be eating people including crawling in their stands. can we sell tickets to have Bella wrestle a couple of these? Florida Python Cast & Blast
The baby was crawling around on its hands and knees.
This particular story involves disappearing houses, old men crawling through the undergrowth, beautiful women impaled on railings and deception on a grand scale. Times, Sunday Times
The juxtaposition of pristine glass structures and the grimy creatures crawling at their feet makes for an interesting visual contrast.
My brain is just a field of scattering deer, a birdsong is a bridge of wings, there are ants crawling in and out of my ears. The Memory Palace
Bending so low, she was practically crawling; Liton drew out her blowpipe, along with eleven darts, pre-dipped.
Wes dropped me off at my apartment and told me that if that's the way I felt, I shouldn't come crawling to him for any more favors.
But whenever I read it it calls forth for me an image that surely was nothing at all like what Eliot had in mind: that silent sea is, for me, the paleozoic one of the Cambrian or Silurian period of four hundred million years ago, and the owner of that pair of ragged claws is the curious mud-crawling creature known as a _eurypterid, _ a vaguely lobsterish thing that reached lengths of eight feet and more. Asimov's Science Fiction
It might feel goofy, but crawling around the banks on your knees, hiding behind trees, and using the river's steep gradients to remain concealed can ensure a stocked creel.
See Tomkins with a telescope and marine jacket; young Nathan and young Abrams, already bedizened in jewellery, and rivalling the sun in oriental splendour; yonder poor invalid crawling along in her chair; yonder jolly fat lady examining the Brighton pebbles (I actually once saw a lady buy one), and her children wondering at the sticking-plaister portraits with gold hair, and gold stocks, and prodigious high-heeled boots, miracles of art, and cheap at seven-and-sixpence! The Newcomes
The baby was crawling about on all fours.
She said: ‘The village was crawling with police cars and vans looking for Stuart, who had gone to the fish shop.’
Its idiots out crawling around with potbellies in camo being wannabe soldiers who frighten the population when it comes to firearms ownership. Follow-up: Patriots or Extremists?
As they floated after Tally, scraping past girders and jagged chunks of concrete, Aya and Frizz collected scratches like they were crawling through a thornbush. Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet
A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
Inspecting the marsupial in question, I noticed it was crawling with fleas.
In crawling infants the forearms, extensor aspects of the knees, and the ankle flexures are often the most affected.
A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
They found a single female octopus crawling towards a rocky outcrop. Times, Sunday Times
We had to leave after two nights because the whole place was crawling with insects. Times, Sunday Times
When there were enough resources to send a loach over, Skeeter set off a smoke marker but he was nowhere near a clearing and the place was still crawling with enemy. Again to Carthage
The researchers used a laser vibrometer to record vibrations produced during interactions between members of 11 species of caterpillar and compared the vibrations of non-signaling movements (such as crawling or pushing) to the ritualized vibrations. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
A few minutes later I found myself crawling under the flowery, feminine covers with Ms. LaMonica, wishing for Jen to be there with me.
At last it really seems tired of eating, and after it has cast its skin four times, the fifth one becomes thick and hard, and the caterpillar hangs itself by a fine silken thread of its own spinning to a twig, and passes into its second stage -- that of the "pupa," or chrysalis, from which it will awaken, a thing of life and beauty, to live in the air instead of crawling. Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
Once, he was bullied into crawling between the legs of one of them in public.
He started on a downbeat note, reminding us of the Establishment's crawling opening party to launch the channel, which was full of snobbery and intellectual pretension.
‘God yes,’ she replied, eyes not leaving the sheets of writing paper she was scrawling all over.
This is the day of the year when swarms of flying ants erupt across the country, crawling over the ground, filling the air. Times, Sunday Times
However, you can't see any of it (even though you're crawling along at 10mph behind a Belgian caravanner with no sense of direction and no ability to check his mirrors) because of ten-foot hedgerows along 90% of the roads. In Which Dungeekin is Bill Bryson...
Always before Peter had come home lipperty-lipperty-lipperty-lip, but now he was crawling, actually _crawling_! The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
The red man continued to burn into my retinas, or maybe it was the Windolene… the chemicals burned past my optic nerves and the red man became a small red arrowtip frog, crawling out of the black plastic baffles of the crossing lights.
All he was aware of now were ants crawling up the leg on an endless march towards the wound.
This creates slightly harsh, overexposed areas of light that most video scalers tend to turn into a blob of crawling noise.
I thought, remembering the fun we used to have outwitting the police copters by crawling underneath parked cars until we reached safety.
The narrow opening supported a child's body and encouraged children to perambulate by keeping them from sitting down or crawling.
Caked in cracked dirt and seeping sweat, crawling on all fours, suffocating from the heat, and trying to avoid startled lizards and bats, I cannot help but feel that I am glad they widened the tunnels for us.
The moat was drained of water with only moss growing at the bottom and the outside walls crawling with thorny vines.
Surely these forces can not result in the ship crawling off the launch pad?
He had known how to brace himself for that other authority -- there had, at any rate, been consistency and even a kind of chiselled magnificence in that stiff brutality -- now there was degradation, crawling devilry, things unmentionable .... Fortitude
The water's crawling with the larvae of brine flies and midges these waterfowl love.
I always wondered if Cyrus came crawling to me, if I would help him.
He made a quick leap for the wall, falling short several feet before crawling forward on his hands and knees.
And it was his pride more than anything else that prevented him from crawling to her and begging her to let him sleep outside.
As if this freezing bunker on this godforsaken heath, the 18-hour days, the crawling about in the mud and route marches weren't bad enough, he's brought his own weights with him.
From hesitantly crawling 3 weeks ago, she can now circumnavigate the house in 2 minutes flat.
The coastal rocks and islands were reported to be crawling with seals, which brought good prices for their carcases and their oil.
- Types of escorts and unsafe methods such as kerb crawling, phonebox cards etc Freelancer.com - New Projects
The train station yesterday was crawling with police and sniffer dogs, but alerts come and go.
It felt as if he was crawling although the speedometer showed seventy miles an hour.
From the beginning of time even when we were still crawling from the sea. A Nice Day For A Forced Wedding. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
But, now, she was scrawling badly jumbled words in an old spiral notebook that she rarely ever used.
They found a single female octopus crawling towards a rocky outcrop. Times, Sunday Times
But if you do, don't be surprised if you end up on the lunch menu on an island crawling with massive prehistoric creatures. Christianity Today
Mauch, who talked to Tennessee Conservative's Mick Wright for an hour outside of the Hilton, was in possession of a flyer announcing the "afterparty" protest at Brennan's, which he gave to Wright while scrawling both the address of the Iron Rail Book Collective and the name of the YouTube account which once hosted the protestors 'video files. Latest Articles
I yelled, crawling forward to the edge of the concrete, and outstretched my arms to grab at him, but he wasn't there.
Apparently, its limbs were primarily adapted for swimming and walking along the bottom of a lake, rather than for crawling on land.
The eyes, mouth, and nose were worn away, with small, fattish yellow worms crawling around.
This place was getting under her skin, crawling on the underside of it, out of her reach and control.
The old cheese was crawling with maggots
In one window, a distressed officer sits at a sturdy acacia desk, scrawling a final correspondence of some illiterate contadino killed weeks before on an accursed massif.
We even went crawling back to our previous hovel but our beds had already been filled.
Now it is a dumb, stupid mastodon of a thing, crawling off to Bal Harbour to die.
BEIT FAJAR, WEST BANK - Arsonists set fire to a mosque in this Palestinian town early Monday, charring Korans, burning holes into the carpet and scrawling "revenge" in Hebrew near the doorway. Arsonists set fire to mosque in West Bank town
The place was crawling with good looking, very funny, very intelligent, eligible bachelors!

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