- 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
One MP says Parliament has had a "strange atmosphere all week, with people crawling over each other to try to get to him".
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Per capita gross domestic product has stagnated for about a decade, crawling from $1,380 in 2015 to $1,478 in 2024 at market exchange rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
There were seven people now, crawling slowly down the hall, pushing trucks and making engine and siren noises.
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
