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crawl

[krawl] / krɔl /




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Not a basket of breads you’ll feel compelled to eat, nibble by nibble, or some roast that will eventually grow horns and crawl out of the refrigerator.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Similarly to that crawl, L.A.’s will feature a passport system, which involves delegating stamps for every purchase of $10 or more at each stop.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Compared with brachiopods, bivalves have greater energy demands because of their larger bodies and muscular "foot" that allows them to burrow and crawl.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

I crawl in back with her and am overwhelmed by the smell of lavender.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

And sheer uncertainty abounds over how to handle raw fruits and veggies while this parasite crawls about.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

The percussion on “2 Hard 4 the Radio” bangs and jumps where so much of the record crawls, and his fleet verse recalls the cadence of his 2018 hit “Nice for What.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

While Kumar’s book crawls on average draw about 20 attendees each, she said the community that’s formed around them is much larger.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 16, 2026

Residents across the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales have been waiting anxiously as Cyclone Alfred crawls towards them, leaving thousands in the dark.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2025

She lifts up the blanket and crawls under the bed.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

Once inside, they climbed, rappelled, crawled, and even floated through flooded sections while recording the caves' shapes and fracture patterns.

From Science Daily Jun. 2, 2026

She ran and then, unable to see, crawled on all fours to escape.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026

I crawled inside W01B, a lower bunk in an all-female wing.

From The Wall Street Journal May 6, 2026

They all jumped back as a red snake crawled between their feet and vanished into a hole in the dry ground.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.—France and Morocco were about to take the field, and Emily Austin was still crawling through traffic toward Gillette Stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

“I came across the Waymo a car or two in front of me in the left-hand lane when I saw these kids start crawling out of the car,” Shahsavani told The Times.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 2026

But higher mortgage rates and prices, along with a limited supply of homes for sale in some parts of the country, have kept sales crawling.

From Barron's Jun. 4, 2026

He heard a splash behind him and immediately started crawling up the bank, hoping Rashawn was right about how difficult it was for a large gator to get up a slippery hill.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith




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