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crawl

[krawl] / krɔl /




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During the set, swaths of fans attempted to crawl forward, desperate to be in sight of James Murphy.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Pull over to use the bathroom, switch between speed limits, and wait for an inevitable bout of traffic to slow the car’s pace to a crawl for who knows how long.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

"I shut him out of my mind for a long time and it's not fair that he's managed to crawl his way back in," the statement read.

From BBC Aug. 6, 2026

To access the Ambassador Bridge, trucks now crawl down a Windsor road with more than a dozen intersections with traffic lights.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

I pull myself away from the door and crawl into bed.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

And sheer uncertainty abounds over how to handle raw fruits and veggies while this parasite crawls about.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2026

Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.

From Salon Jun. 24, 2026

The Red Car line that used to service the area crawls through traffic that includes a Model T and horse-drawn carriages.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 19, 2026

The percussion on “2 Hard 4 the Radio” bangs and jumps where so much of the record crawls, and his fleet verse recalls the cadence of his 2018 hit “Nice for What.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 19, 2026

There’s no point trying to work, Moira won’t allow it, she’s like a cat that crawls onto the page when you’re trying to read.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

The play’s nadir comes at the close of the first act, when Judith suddenly returns, looking as if she has just crawled out of the Potomac, as indeed she has.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

Daveigh Chase, the horror actress who crawled out of a TV in The Ring and voiced Lilo in Disney's animated Lilo & Stitch, died this month from Aids, according to a medical examiner's report.

From BBC Jun. 29, 2026

Once inside, they climbed, rappelled, crawled, and even floated through flooded sections while recording the caves' shapes and fracture patterns.

From Science Daily Jun. 2, 2026

They played with his tail, crawled upon his back, lifted up his lips, and inspected his teeth.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

As they were still teenagers, they were better able to squeeze through narrow spaces, crawling between concrete slabs lit only by a handheld torch or mobile phone so they could tell rescuers where to dig.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

There, crawling on eight legs across the white sheets toward us, sporting a single dot on its back, was a deep-red, plump tick.

From Slate Aug. 6, 2026

“It’s like this that humanism itself gets swallowed up by nihilism,” he adds, concretizing that image in his movie with many scenes of environmental degradation realized as crawling blobs of death.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

Navarro escaped by throwing himself into a ditch and crawling away, but hasn't seen his wife, who remains missing.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Razi waited till he had gone a fair way before crawling out from under the bush.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook




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