CRAWL in a Sentence
Learn CRAWL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
132 example sentences for CRAWL, such as:
1. A baby crawls before it can walk.
2. The baby crawled across the floor.
3. The child crawled across the floor.
4. The injured soldier crawled to safety.
5. Don't try to walk before you can crawl.
2. The baby crawled across the floor.
3. The child crawled across the floor.
4. The injured soldier crawled to safety.
5. Don't try to walk before you can crawl.
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Meanings and Examples of CRAWL
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crawl
v. swim by doing the crawl
n. a very slow movement
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1 Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp, anything to escape him.
2 Pork, you and Prissy crawl under the house and get the pigs out.
3 Melanie joined them on the veranda, the baby in her arms, and spreading an old blanket on the floor, set little Beau down to crawl.
4 If I have to crawl on my belly to every fat old cat who hates me, I'll do it.
5 At each road-crossing she had to crawl over a cattle-guard of sharpened timbers.
6 Come on, crawl in and set a couple minutes, Mrs. Kennicott.
7 He never was, but round him was a suggestion of masked faces at the window, revolvers, cords binding him to a chair, his struggle to crawl to the key before he fainted.
8 During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them and coil themselves away there for a nap.
9 I'd crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there.
10 All day long he would crawl around the floor in a filthy little dress, whining and fretting; because the floor was full of drafts he was always catching cold, and snuffling because his nose ran.
11 When they got home they were always too tired either to eat or to undress; they would crawl into bed with their shoes on, and lie like logs.
12 I would crawl into this bag, and there sleep on the cold, damp, clay floor, with my head in and feet out.
13 Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back.
14 In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians.
15 He who felt that he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings sprouting on Cosette.
Example Sentence:
1 Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk.
2 Don't try to walk before you can crawl.
3 I was heading on a secret mission that made my flesh crawl.
4 Colleagues today recall with humor how meetings would crawl into the early morning hours.
5 The crocodile can crawl along the riverbed.
6 The baby crawled across the floor.
7 The child crawled across the floor.
8 Exhausted soldiers crawled into camp, frozen and bedraggled.
9 The injured soldier crawled to safety.
10 "Was there any lady of the house?" "Nay, there was naught but her, and she was housekeeper;" and of her, reader, I could not bear to ask the relief for want of which I was sinking; I could not yet beg; and again I crawled away.
11 Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went.
12 When she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away.
13 He said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit him on the cheek -- but I couldn't see no snakes.
14 The baby was crawling around on its hands and knees.
15 A baby crawls before it can walk.