crawling

Example Sentences

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Will the people who are crawling in get any of the money that’s showering out?

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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

Yes, he has managed to get both because he has a good, long-term job, and he’s slowly crawling out of the abyss.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 18, 2026

When I craned my neck to take in the pillars of rock, I spotted a lizard crawling through the crags—the first living creature I had seen since we had escaped the dervish.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri