CROUCH in a Sentence

Learn CROUCH 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.

128 example sentences for CROUCH, such as:

1. The hare crouches low on the ground.
2. They did not crouch under the oppression.
3. He crouched in the shadows near the doorway.
4. They crouched together on a shadowy hillside.
5. The beggar is crouching in a corner of the room.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of CROUCH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
crouch
 v.  bend down; stoop low; lie close to the ground with the legs bent, as an animal when waiting for prey, or in fear
Classic Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
1  She thought of the coming of the Northern winter, when the unprotected houses would crouch together in terror of storms galloping out of that wild waste.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
3  He was just proud enough to demand the most debasing homage of the slave, and quite servile enough to crouch, himself, at the feet of the master.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  A love affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
5  They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE
6  In black fantastic shapes, dumb shadows crawl into the corners of the room and crouch there.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
7  Pierre looked at her timidly over his spectacles, and like a hare surrounded by hounds who lays back her ears and continues to crouch motionless before her enemies, he tried to continue reading.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
8  This is the Land of the Unfenced, where crouch on either hand scores of ugly one-room cabins, cheerless and dirty.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
9  She waited while he seated himself with crossed legs in the front of the sled; then she crouched quickly down at his back and clasped her arms about him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
10  Forgotten in the tumult, little Wade crouched behind the banisters on the front porch, peering out onto the lawn like a caged, frightened rabbit, his eyes wide with terror, sucking his thumb and hiccoughing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  Prissy and Wade scurried for the cellar and crouched in the cobwebbed darkness, Prissy squalling at the top of her voice and Wade sobbing and hiccoughing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  As she crouched there, squeezing her eyes tightly to keep back the tears, she was startled by the sound of trotting hooves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
13  She jumped as a slight noise sounded and, turning quickly, saw crouched by the banisters her forgotten son, his eyes enormous with terror.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  Through the long hours of silence the dark spirit of fatigue and loneliness crouched upon her breast, leaving her so drained of bodily strength that her morning thoughts swam in a haze of weakness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  She crouched in her chair as she imagined men talking of her, thick-voiced, obscene, in barber shops and the tobacco-stinking pool parlor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  They did not crouch under the oppression.
2  The moment of death had obsessed him from childhood, when he had acquired that slight crouch, protecting his neck from the shining blade of the guillotine that might slice through.
3  They crouched together on a shadowy hillside.
4  The animal crouched down, getting ready for the kill.
5  He crouched in the shadows near the doorway.
6  She crouched in the dark, too frightened to reveal herself.
7  The earthquake shattered Stuart's usual stolid demeanor; trembling, he crouched on the no longer stable ground.
8  The beggar is crouching in a corner of the room.
9  The hare crouches low on the ground.