- present participle of crawl.
crawling
Example Sentences
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"I'm just scared when he gets older, when he starts crawling around, I can't even allow him to crawl in such a place like that because it's so dirty," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Social media platforms and message boards are crawling with asks for reliable weather app recommendations, and the answers can vary wildly.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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
It wards away germs, which I need in a place like this, which is probably crawling with them.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
