crawling

Example Sentences

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Greta Schlender, 41, senior product manager: We’re doing Army crawling on the beach.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Hanson, who spends much of his life crawling through underbrush to count trees, plunged ahead into stands of chest-high ceanothus, pointing out sequoias camouflaged in the pervasive post-fire brush.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

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 • Feb. 25, 2026

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 • Feb. 21, 2026

“I wouldn’t send my friend into danger,” Pond said, crawling next to him.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young