crawl
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“Farewell to Russia” reads like an epic pub crawl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Verstappen and Hamilton were the first of a number of cars that were afflicted by a software issue that left them unable to do more than crawl along.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
With the construction of homes, stadiums and other buildings throughout the county, bats have adapted to roosting in spaces such as the eaves of homes or in crawl spaces, Curti said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
One approach being tested involves robots that can crawl across the seafloor.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The one near the stairs starts to crawl up them.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
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Williamsburg is the secret fourth girl in Lena Dunham’s HBO show Girls, so consistently featured onscreen that there are Sex in the City–style crawls of all the North Brooklyn businesses that appear in the show.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
She climbs, she crawls, she leaps, she runs like the Santa Ana wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
As she crawls, screams, scratches and sneers, Lawrence maintains a soulful balance between Grace’s creeping delirium and her ceaseless dedication to her newborn son.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
The staircase comes sharply into view and Axel crawls toward it on hands and knees.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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Used to doing everything for himself, he unclipped his harness and crawled to a waiting ground robot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
With her pain getting worse, she "crawled into the doctors on my hands and knees" in May, asking for the coil to be removed.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Something in the water flashed at him, and “about half an hour later, Marshall crawled out of the tailrace, cradling his hat to his chest like a hurt child,” exclaiming, “I have found it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
In a historic first, two olive ridley sea turtles crawled out of the sea within the second week of September and laid their eggs in pits of sand in Seal Beach and Huntington Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
With both legs free, Roald crawled to the front of the log as it “bucked wildly in the current.”
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
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After a few days, he noticed they were crawling with maggots, so he tossed them outside through a window.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
One day in the middle of April he was crawling on his knees dragging a supply parcel when he heard something drop behind him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Imagine looking at the mirror and seeing ants crawling all over the lower part of your face.
From Slate ● Oct. 21, 2026
Crews clambered in to find Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan - both had injuries on their hands and legs, "possibly" from crawling through the tunnel.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
She noticed a police sniper crawling into position on a rooftop across the street and pointed it out to Sydney and Kat who nodded silently, as if speaking aloud might alert the criminals.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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