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How to use crawling in a sentence

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She would always talk to us about our troubles, help us when we cut our knees crawling through the undergrowth and give us ice creams.
An icon of a crawling Krishna in a silver cradle or leaf is placed in the mandapam.
This one was brick and stone laid with crawling ivy masking most of the surface area.
He had torn his pants crawling through one barbed wire fence, and cut his hand on another.
Once there, her life begins, from crawling to walking, through playful child, bashful teenager, lover and mother, into old age.
People were specks far below, crawling about their meaningless, methodical lives like insects.
At times, he's crawling, beast-like across the floor, venting enough raw emotion and passion to land him the lead in a West End musical.
Some individuals also experience extreme hallucinations, such as the sensation that there are bugs crawling beneath the skin.
I tried to escape later by crawling away, and was kicked until I was senseless.
The moat was drained of water with only moss growing at the bottom and the outside walls crawling with thorny vines.
The metro of this city is crawling with thieves, as are the crowded tourist areas above ground.
Rising to the quarter-deck, he glanced aft noting the decks of Dolphin crawling with men and topmen prepared for battle.
Thousands of legs, like a giant millipede crawling across the floodplain, kick up puffs of blush-colored dust.
Today, it is estimated that more than half the people of the world eat a variety of flying, crawling, and biting bugs.
First time it happened, he explained he had fallen asleep while eating bikkies, and that a trail of ants had started crawling all over him.
A writhing mass of white snow-snakes hissed, crawling from hidden cracks and crevasses in the bifurcations of the cave-rocks.
He was then stricken with shin splints that required a series of operations and left him crawling around his house for months.
It was the weirdest thing, the shongololo was crawling across the floor and when I touched it it curled into its typical little curl.
Brown tree snakes crawling on electrical power lines cause short circuits and are responsible for frequent power outages on Guam.
He had one arm hanging by his side and the other had a small blue beetle crawling over it.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The slugs should be killed whilst crawling, by plunging them into a solution of corrosive sublimate, or into benzine.
His house was scarcely a furlong distant, yet he was an hour crawling to it.
All other means have been tried, short of crawling on our bellies to these Dutch hinds!
Conan realized with a crawling of his skin that beyond the wall the belling voice had ceased.
He started crawling on his belly up out of the draw to the crest of the hog's back.
Over at the left, there were four white sparks crawling toward a spot where a blue flash had showed a little while since.
These men were as far removed from him as the crawling beetle is from the butterfly.
Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe.
One is by going along some ropes, called the futtock shrouds, when one hangs very much as a fly does crawling along the ceiling.
Brooks had just landed with his goofy student and was crawling out of his cockpit when he saw the ship hit.
This was not war, this ignominious crawling, this grovelling in the soil, this halting!
A silvery creature like a slowworm came crawling out from among them, slowly crossed the clay floor, and crept into the fire.
A man with trained dogs will own them personally, as a snake charmer owns her crawling pets.
These were probably to prevent crawling of the smaller material used as a leveler.
It was whilst crawling out to rescue a wounded man of the crew of a tank that Sergeant Heath, M.M., was mortally wounded.
They tip over if you lean on their edges to look at anything that is crawling about inside.
Through a barred window the wondering warden sourly watched the crawling, tottery figure.
A fuzzy caterpillar, driven by some unseasonal urge, started crawling up the log on which they were sitting.
At the base of the senile trunks are developed the crawling or climbing stems, ever verdurous, of various lycopodiums.
My life seemed only a vermiculate one, a crawling about of half-thoughts-half-feelings through the corpse of a decaying existence.
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