crawling

Example Sentences

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While the motives that drive a knight are often human, political, or both, the logic is as miraculous and irrational as a muddy hedge knight crawling out from under a fallen dragon.

From Salon

He came crawling out of the brush on his stomach, heading straight for me.

From Literature

The straw was piling up in the corners and crawling up the walls, covering the tapestries, the paintings, and the windows.

From Literature

Morag said Hamish was at "the ideal age where I didn't have to carry solid food for him yet and he wasn't yet crawling".

From BBC

Spiro favors crawling tempos and unadorned piano melodies, which leave more room for her husky voice.

From The Wall Street Journal