crawl
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The Dodgers had a chance to crawl closer with one out in the eighth, with Teoscar Hernández on third and Hunter Feduccia on first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Sally Wadsworth, chair of Benfield Wildlife and Conservation Group, says some areas of grass are kept longer so that the females can crawl up the stalks for mating.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Not a basket of breads you’ll feel compelled to eat, nibble by nibble, or some roast that will eventually grow horns and crawl out of the refrigerator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The smell of rubbish hangs heavy in the air as pickup trucks and handcarts crawl through narrow alleyways, unloading the day's collections while children weave between them chasing footballs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
Some people play that you have to crawl through the frozen person's legs to unfreeze them.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
Critics on the Croisette are starting to resemble that classic comic-strip panel in which an explorer crawls desperately across the sand toward an oasis that’s only a mirage.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 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
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
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
The music crawls through my bones, seeps real deep into my skin.
From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles
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
Since then, wages for 25-year-olds have crawled back up, almost to the point they were 20 years ago.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
Roa and his companions initially crawled and then cut a hole to reach the site.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 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
Kneeling down, he opened a low cupboard, crawled inside and pushed at the back of the cupboard where a loose panel gave way.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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
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
A crawling numbness spread through her as she watched Mama sob at the table.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
