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crawl

[krawl] / krɔl /




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Zollinger’s patrol partner slid into the crawl space after the suspected intruder.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

Today, rows of giant African snails crawl inside wooden pens in Adjoa, a coastal community where fishing families are testing the new source of income.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

Similarly to that crawl, L.A.’s will feature a passport system, which involves delegating stamps for every purchase of $10 or more at each stop.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Compared with brachiopods, bivalves have greater energy demands because of their larger bodies and muscular "foot" that allows them to burrow and crawl.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

Jonah just wanted to walk in, crawl into bed, pull the covers over his face, and sleep until all the scary things in his life disappeared.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Today, dragons and dungeon crawls are common entertainments.

From Salon Jun. 24, 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

I’m betting on one who crawls through the brush to find answers that it’s only the beginning of something that will take longer than my lifetime to reveal itself.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2025

Residents across the Australian states of Queensland and New South Wales have been waiting anxiously as Cyclone Alfred crawls towards them, leaving thousands in the dark.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2025

It crawls up my legs, into my chest and my ears.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

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

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

On and on it went, a remix of the pessimism that has crawled around this program for a generation plus.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 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

I crawled across the parking lot to show my viewers how weak they’d become.

From Los Angeles Times May 25, 2026

He crawled inside the closet and looked around.

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

“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

FOXBOROUGH, Mass.—France and Morocco were about to take the field, and Emily Austin was still crawling through traffic toward Gillette Stadium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2026

One MP says Parliament has had a "strange atmosphere all week, with people crawling over each other to try to get to him".

From BBC Jun. 27, 2026

“I saw part of that, and what really freaked me out was when she was crawling up upside down and backwards down the stairs — kind of like the spider.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

The straw was piling up in the corners and crawling up the walls, covering the tapestries, the paintings, and the windows.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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