CRAWLING in a Sentence

Learn CRAWLING 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 CRAWLING, 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.

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 Meanings and Examples of CRAWLING
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crawl
 v.  move slowly, as people or animals with the body near the ground
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  He was almost barefoot, crawling with lice, and he was hungry, but his irascible spirit was unimpaired.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
2  Everywhere, swarms of flies hovered over the men, crawling and buzzing in their faces, everywhere was blood, dirty bandages, groans, screamed curses of pain as stretcher bearers lifted men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  She had been crawling with fear, rotten with fear, terrified by the Yankees, terrified by the approaching birth of Beau.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  She listened with flesh crawling as Melanie told tales of Tara, making Scarlett a heroine as she faced the invaders and saved Charles' sword, bragging how Scarlett had put out the fire.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
5  But they followed the dog for a quarter of a mile, turning, doubling, crossing two low hills, kicking through a swale of weeds, crawling between the strands of a barbed-wire fence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by crawling through the lubber's hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you don't get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
7  Besides, it would much subtract from the glory of the exploit had St. George but encountered a crawling reptile of the land, instead of doing battle with the great monster of the deep.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
8  The outside ones would be shivering and sobbing, crawling over the others and trying to get down into the center, and causing a fight.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  There was an occasional flash and glimmer of steel from the backs of all these huge crawling reptiles.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  They were like two serpents crawling from the cavern of the night.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Looking down an aisle of the grove, the youth and his companion saw a jangling general and his staff almost ride upon a wounded man, who was crawling on his hands and knees.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
12  They looked up the shallow valley at the mine, and beyond it, at the black-lidded houses of Tevershall crawling like some serpent up the hill.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
13  There was a thin, crisp, continuous patter from somewhere in the heart of that crawling bank.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
14  I had rather that Nancy and my old pals should think of Harry Wood as having died with a straight back, than see him living and crawling with a stick like a chimpanzee.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
15  At last, by a sudden impulse, just as our train was crawling out of a suburban station, he sprang on to the platform and pulled me out after him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Example Sentence:
1  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.
2  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.
3  The baby was crawling around on its hands and knees.
4  The baby crawled across the floor.
5  The child crawled across the floor.
6  Exhausted soldiers crawled into camp, frozen and bedraggled.
7  The injured soldier crawled to safety.
8  "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.
9  Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went.
10  Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk.
11  Don't try to walk before you can crawl.
12  I was heading on a secret mission that made my flesh crawl.
13  Colleagues today recall with humor how meetings would crawl into the early morning hours.
14  The crocodile can crawl along the riverbed.
15  A baby crawls before it can walk.