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crawl

[krawl] / krɔl /




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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

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

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

Once, Jonathan changed from crawl to breaststroke just in time to see a huge tree rushing toward him.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

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 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

DeShon stands, tethers himself, and crawls slowly onto and across the webbing.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

“Well, we didn’t walk out of it. We crawled out of it, but we did get out of it alive.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 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

The author recalls how the “astonishing numbers of people who got in their cars, crawled through traffic, sat in massive crowds, cheered and bought some campaign swag” proved something unique was going on.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 26, 2026

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

From Barron's Jul. 4, 2026

Wearily, Jonathan crawled into the shelter and lay beside her.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

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

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

As far as she knew, the wise old founder had never had to flee actors dressed as pirates by crawling through a dank, dark tunnel into the British Museum after hours.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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