- present participle of crawl.
crawling
Example Sentences
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There, crawling on eight legs across the white sheets toward us, sporting a single dot on its back, was a deep-red, plump tick.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
“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
Thrall told BBC's Newshour: "It's kind of crazy one minute to be fighting back tears with his daughter, and then the next minute to see him crawling into town. It's absolutely amazing, beyond words".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
I felt a warm shiver of fear crawling up my back.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
