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Sentence Examples The cold, soft spindrift blew into my face as I crouched beside a boulder trying to strap crampons to my boots with frozen fingers. A small wooden desk, bearing a blue ceramic lamp and a spiral notebook, crouched bowlegged in one corner. Behind him, the virescent beast crouched as if about to leap again, bellowing defiance and raising clenched fists that were as big as hams. Then I wanted to get the whole pond in the shot from a lower angle so I crouched down but was a little bit close. Three children crouched in the shade of the branches, above them a small bag of precious grain hung carefully. She gave me a grubby blanket and crouched down in front of the fire while I huddled and shivered. She crouched down, and wrapped her arms around her frail body, covering her face with her hands. The wayward child is at the back of the dim cement room, crouched in a corner near the hand basins. His face wore a lopsided grin, and he crouched down near the fire and set to work upon the other shoe. I had just crouched down to pick it up when everyone naturally decided to surge forward. I crouched down to avoid being knocked over myself and hid my head under my arms. He rose up on one knee, then crouched there, body tight, as if tensing for the pounce. Selena crouched next to him, her boots squeaking gently, the sound magnifying itself in his ears, echoing off each wall several times. She paused and crouched, running her fingers along the edge of one of the circular prints with an angled notch in the front. Half submerged, crouched behind the existing war memorial and camouflaged within the terrain, it has an aspect of stealthiness. A minute later, she was crouched behind a boulder, her crossbow loaded and strung. The fledgling crouched in the center of the strange clearing, on the scruffy herbage that grew amid the dirt and stones. Back tire slurping and bouncing wildly, I kept going, finally slithering to a halt when I saw Jeff and Joe crouched under a rock outcropping. Livvy nodded and crouched down as the little toddler ran stumpily towards her. At the end of the two weeks he sustained a full rupture of both Achilles tendons when he crouched down to put a video in his machine. Show More Sentences Freya crouched down and fussed her, not minding her face being licked enthusiastically. I crouched down into the farthest corner from the door, huddling into a ball, making myself as small as possible. He asked to see my ticket, and I crouched down to reach into the top compartment of my knapsack to retrieve it. The couple knelt in a crouched position with their hands joined over a bowl of holy water. We crouched beside the tree, looking for all the world like a Christmas card photo. Her voice sounded like a deafened croak as she crouched by the girl's side. He crouched down and took to the table, changing his fingering so that the cue rested between his thumb and first finger. I popped up and crouched, and when I'd gotten ahead of the crashing white, I roller-coastered to the top of the lip and shot back down. She crouched down and began climbing on to the top rung of the rope ladder. The posters pictured a person crouched down, picking a lock, and a woman making an emergency call. He set the plate down on the mattress roughly and then crouched down in front of her. They crouched in the distance then lolloped off, not into the woods, but over bare ground to the horizon. All of the members of the Melody crouched, throwing their hands over their heads to fling away the flying debris. The Seer crouched on her bed of moldy straw, shivering slightly from the cold. Light siege engines and field artillery bulked behind the infantry, crews crouched at their weapons. I crouched down over Holly, and drew back the curtain of golden hair to reveal a white, pinched face. The General returned the salute of his driver in his open compartment and crouched as he hopped up into the little door to the rear compartment. She knew about a standard survival kit that was placed under the seat in the cockpit and crouched back inside to look for it. Cassidy crouched down by the water and grinned at the comical looking ducks as they paddled and preened themselves in the clear crystal water. She is a tall scrag of a woman, crouched in profile, alone on a steep verge above the relentless Florida traffic. Show More Sentences She ran her hand against the steel plated walls and crouched down to see writings that had been scratched into the metal, probably with a knife. I crouched at the border of field and forest, hidden behind the snow-dusted skeleton of a bush and a drift banked against a fallen trunk. Instead of parrying, Celia crouched under the blade's arc and reprised with an upward thrust of her own weapon. In the late 1970s when I crouched under center, I turned around and placed that pigskin in the very capable hands of Billy Sims. Running her hand down along the side, she crouched in the shadows and reached to the bottom, where the stair met the well-worn cobbles. She crouched on the soft sand in a cave, the light of a dying fire flickering across her tan fur. The website depicts him crouched sparrow-like on a waterfall, gazing cherubically into the distance while music plays. At the place where it sprang from the toe of the valley wall I crouched down to dip my fingers in the fresh water. One armed officer wearing a helmet and body armour crouched behind the corner of a house and was aiming his weapon. She crouched behind a tent, peeking out to see if there was any way through. He moved forward cautiously until a man came into view crouched in the shallows of the river. She crouched like a cornered animal, her face hidden by the disarranged mass of her hair. High up in one of the larger and more densely branched trees in the area, a man crouched, cursing his luck. Rebus nodded slowly and walked over to the bus driver, crouched down in front of him. He crouched down and brushed some leaves aside to reveal a small tripwire stretched between two trees. Vincent fell to the ground, dropping his books and falling to a crouched position. When I arrived at the enclosures, he was inside, crouched submissively alongside a huge silver-backed male. She crouched down and tucked herself into her knees, eyes just over the top. Gia turned from her crouched position and took in the features of the man lying on the table. She crouched, turned, and swung her blade in a wide arc, making a sharp, whistling sound. Show More Sentences I crouched on the floor and dumped the contents of the waste basket out in front of me and began to sift through it. Knowing that she would never be able to outrun her pursuer, the girl quickly stepped behind a tree and crouched down. Din crouched low on her shoulder, trembling with fear and trying to bury into her cloak to hide. Then I silently mounted the stairs myself, and crouched two steps from the top to listen. With care he crouched and drank, filling a mouth that seemed always parched, striving to slake a thirst he could no longer quench. A group of soldiers in berets and camouflage emerges, crouched low in the fierce downwash from the rotors. I crouched down without making a sound and started slithering like a snake through the bushy tomato plants that Mr. Russo had tied up on stakes. The victim said he felt a huge blow, was smacked on the lips, ended up crouched and fell to his knees on the ground. Uncle Kal stuffed his equipment under a nearby bush, then crouched beside me. On sunny days, Ke'e is a lovely crescent of tawny sand crouched below an upsweeping ridge line. Gasping, fighting for breath, she crouched on the cold floor, breaking out in sweat. He spun around and crouched low behind the tree, his soggy shoes making squishy sounds. Craig turned to Alex, who was crouched in the hull of the little watercraft. She shaded her eyes and crouched beside him, the fire crackling and sending sparks into the morning air. On an impulse that she hardly understood, she crouched in a shadowed groin of the red-tiled roof, and peeked down into the forbidden area. I whispered to Matt where we crouched behind one of those directory boards in the shopping centre. She crouched further down, looking up at him and then burying her face against his upper arm, crying. She lost control of her bladder as she crouched in a corner, shaking, and unable to move her body due to the shock. Now shaken from his reverie, stunned, Paterno walked over to the golf cart and crouched and shook the hand of the champ. Three or four generations were crouched around her, wailing and weeping, some clawing at her still body. Show More Sentences It puffed a whiff of smoke and crouched down to their level. Before I could move she flattened her belly to the ground, crouched, trembled, and sprang into his face. When it was time for her to meet the audience, she ran outside and crouched behind a dumpster. I crouched down behind a pile of broken stone to catch my breath. He crouched low to the ground and held the sword firmly with both hands. She was crouched, waiting, next to another Elf and a hawk lycanthrope as other Elves moved across bridges, in and out of trees, all hooded with their weapons concealed. Excavated in 1911, the primary burial dates to about 2500 BC and comprised a crouched inhumation in a cist accompanied by a beaker, bone pin, and flint tools. She crouched on a wide branch and peered down like a wild tigress. A grungy man with an evil, nearly toothless grin crouched behind it. Moments later, she saw headlights in the middle distance and moved off the road, into the low hollow at the side, where she flicked off the torch and crouched low. The line reflexively crouched in anticipation of the shower of shrapnel. Dr. Beeks crouched in the center of the chamber, reaching out to touch something only she could see, then made a moue when her hand failed to connect. She stepped back and crouched so her face was slenderly below his. Several others claim to have seen a robust figure wearing a hat and a poncho crouched against a table in the library. The trio rounded the end of the shelves and saw a crouched form behind the stone archway that made up the division between the vestibule and the main hall of the library. They crouched in the cobwebby corner behind a pile of boxes. We crouched low behind boulders, striving for inconspicuousness while Wehausen unpacked his telemetry equipment to see if any radio-collared sheep were in the vicinity. I crouched, sniffing and listening, every muscle poised for flight. It was crouched on all fours, its strangely formed hands with three fingers and a thumb acting as the forefeet on a crocodile, while the tail slithered like a snake's would. As those consulted explained, in the confusion of battle there is not time to work out who is the most senior of the five soldiers or officers crouched in a foxhole. Show More Sentences He crouched behind a trash dumpster and waited until they left. He crouched as he walked, and his gait was slow and measured. All were watching, with eager anticipation, the replica of George Stephenson's Rocket, which crouched on the rails behind the museum emitting gouts of steam. The burials were found to be crouched inhumations in centrally placed grave pits typically buried with grave goods such as jewellery and food offerings in a pot. She crouched down, trying to get a closer look at the spider. Hurriedly taking off her bodice, she crouched at the boiler while the water ran slowly into her lading-can. Boyles crouched against the wall in puris naturalibus, while Ned wrapped the magician's cape around his bare legs and flagged down the coach. The lion crouched in the tall grass, waiting to attack the gazelle. Men in battered green metal helmets crouched in the sand as streaks of red tracer fire from enemy bullets strafed the field. An example is the crouched, tail-raised posture shown for Great and Tataupa tinamous. Caen was pitching and I was crouched behind the dish, catching. A well-built teenage boy in a soiled black leather studded vest and black jeans was crouched in the far corner of the cellar, waiting for us. Those unspeculating, window-like eyes turned themselves full on me crouched there in the yellow sofa. When we see him lying atop a table, peering down at the figure crouched underneath, it could be situation comedy or something altogether more sinister. So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing. The term Single Grave culture comes from its burial custom, which consisted of inhumation under tumuli in a crouched position with various artifacts. As one girl crouched on the floor scribbling out lines on cue cards, three students simultaneously operated the station's three cameras, taking cues from the control room. In year eight, crouched in a playground cubby, she gave Ryan Glover a gobby. Brief, busy, urgent. Then afterwards, slipping it back into his pants, he said thank you. The backup team would be crouched in some tiny broom closet, with sweat rolling down their faces and their backs growing stiffer, and the jackrollers would just walk by. In the third fire bay he found Sawdon and Towers crouched down over a small fire made out of shredded sandbags and candle ends, coaxing the flames. Show More Sentences We crouched behind the low wall until the squad of soldiers had passed by. Although the typical Bell Beaker practice of crouched burial has been observed, cremation was readily adopted in accordance with the previous tradition of the autochthons. Examples from Classical Literature But the shrewmouse had crouched to dodge the shadow of a passing bird, and he saw him no more. Clambering over the precious pile in the middle, they crouched low on the foreside of the mast and groped under the half-deck. At first I crouched under it sinisterly, as a man will when an evil takes him unawares. A hoatzin which may have been crouched close to the slain bird would continue to preen its plumage without a glance downward. Lifting her head and shoulders above the fronded plants, she saw a dark, crouched shape approaching warily. He sat crouched over the flickering fire, saying nothing, letting Ancrum soliloquise as he pleased. Like some horrendous, watchful gargoyle, the Nipe crouched motionlessly on the shadowed roof of the low building. Mallory was crouched in the seat, and almost perfectly covered by a human shield. He had crouched over it for a half-hour, blowing it, coaxing it, wheedling it. He giggled to himself and chugged his coffee, crouched down below the window. He crouched low, poised to spring, with his nose just beyond the doorframe. There, in the shelter of a milling machine, he paused and crouched motionless as a cat. The man crouched in the bear grass could tell that Gabriel was in high good-humor. The two assassins crouched in their ambush, a tigerish glare in their eyes. At the first view, he crouched to the earth, then came on us, bounding like a tost foot-ball. He crouched close, a mere lump of demoralization, behind a veil of wild buckwheat. She swung about the fire pot which she held in her hand, while the boy crouched to the earth and screamed. Winter thought the other had recognized the man crouched over the handlebar. He sat behind his desk like a tuskless sea lion crouched behind a rock, and his cheeks merged into jowls and obliterated his neck. Johnny whispered as he crouched on the sidelines waiting for action. Show More Sentences Jon hopped a section of packing cases and crouched out of sight. Our men crouched about the decks here and there with anxious, crestfallen faces, all turned one way to watch the chaser. They snapped off their torches and crouched in Stygian darkness. He crouched entirely concealed by a great lilac bush, which many times before had hid his traitorous form. She had leapt as the deer leaps, and crouched, still as any deer. Or, crouched on the bank of a frog-pond, we tickled frogs with straws. In the alley the grey cat crouched behind barrels filled with torn paper and broken bottles above which flew a black swarm of flies. Susan had run out, swerving sharp to the left at the door, and on the edge of the slope crouched down behind a boulder. Quivering with excitement, Maui crouched in his hiding-place and waited. He crouched a bit more, drew his body more compactly together, and covered up with his hands, elbows, and forearms. The father, with a newly-ladened pipe in his mouth, crouched on a backless chair near the stove. There he crouched, a savage beast of prey, awaiting the coming of its victim. He crouched together, brushing on the wainscot, and made a dart like a serpent, striking for the door. He went near to her, and crouched down, coiling his blue neck. George Willard crouched and then jumped through the path of light that came out at the door. She crouched at my feet covering her face with her long hair. Low she crouched, and her call to Lauzanne was but a joyous whisper. Before it, on a log of wood, sat or crouched a human figure. I slipped into the drawing-room and crouched behind a chair. Quickly he crouched back away from the entrance, at the same time turning his eyes toward me. Show More Sentences Tom crouched over his pretended work like a devilfish devouring its prey. We crouched in the shadows, the earthlight filtering down to us. We concentrated our guns on him as he crouched behind this earthwork. He sat crouched in a corner, like a thief in the presence of a gendarme. He placed the gnarled thing in sunlight and crouched to survey it. Mrs. Grayson at last crouched in the corner with the eight-year-old boy. This he saw, and an eighth man who crouched in the bow and gazed shoreward. The half-breed did not reply, but crouched and pointed with his hand. He drove his heels into Zanzibar's sides and crouched low in the saddle. Old Parrish was whining and whimpering as he crouched in his place. Renwick, crouched beneath the foliage, was incapable of motion. It made him feel very fragile and defenseless, and he crouched lower in the saddle. She crouched on her cot of spruce boughs in anguished misery. I crouched in the bottom of the dingey, stunned, and staring blankly at the vacant, oily sea. Now the lioness crouched herself to spring, growling terribly, but the lad with the club did not wait for her onset. On the unpaved ground the bakers crouched in irregular lines. Dan was waiting in the utilidor, crouched and dozing against the wall. Lucy crouched and suffered, open-eyed but without any consciousness. The stair carpet was ruffled and discoloured where I had crouched, soaked to the skin from the thunderstorm the night of the catastrophe. Down he crouched at once, and stealthily stalked the pakeha. Show More Sentences For a few minutes he crouched in shadow, too panic-stricken to move. It did not try to get away, but crouched down, quivering and cowering, and was in such a pitiable state of terror that I tried, though without effect, to comfort it. In the centre, crouched before a slow-smoking fire, in the littered ashes of a thousand fires, was an old man who blinked apathetically at the invaders. Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. The great Thark stood with his back against an angle of the walls, while facing him in a semi-circle a half-dozen huge monsters crouched waiting for an opening. When we had come up to the wall of the city we crouched down beneath our armour and lay there under cover of the reeds and thick brushwood that grew about the swamp. Find more words! 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