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How to use the word crawled in a Sentence?

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Which is a pretty outrageous statement that he's basically saying that he thinks my mom crawled into this obscure area on the Club Med property, planted herself in the bushes, and then somehow passed away.

Rick Kuhnla Jr.

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Somehow, we don't know yet how that happened, gonzalo Lopez got up underneath. Gonzalo Lopez used some type of a device to cut out the bottom of that door. Gonzalo Lopez got down underneath the door -- Gonzalo Lopez crawled underneath the door and when Gonzalo Lopez got it when Gonzalo Lopez got through that opening that Gonzalo Lopez cut open, that's when Gonzalo Lopez started struggling with the officer.

Randy Smith

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know this because the turtles are heavy and they leave very clear tracks and other signs in the sand, she emerged from the ocean, crawled up towards the landward part of the beach and attempted to dig several, several nests.

Erin Seney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Micah Herndon said. Race organizers invited him to the New York Marathon the day after the Boston Marathon even though his time didnt qualify him. In Boston, Micah Herndon had four miles left to finish the race when Micah Herndon legs gave out, and Micah Herndon ended up crawlingon Micah Herndon hands and knees to the finish line. MARINE WHO CRAWLED ACROSS BOSTON MARATHON FINISH LINE FOR FALLEN COMRADES INVITED TO RUN NYC MARATHON In Afghanistan, he was in a convoy in 2010 when one of the vehicles hit an IED, killing in Marines Mark Juarez andMatthew Ballard, and Rupert Hamer, a British journalist. He served multiple tours in Afghanistan and Iraq. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP I run in honor of them.They are not here anymore. I am here, and I am able, i am lucky to still have all my limbs. I can still be active. I find fuel in the simple idea that I can run. Some can not.

Micah Herndon

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

About halfway into it we heard about three pops to the left-hand side of the stage, all of a sudden it became very obvious. We ran off the stage. We crawled underneath it. We laid down, hid, kept quiet, until the police arrived.

Christian Swain

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When I traversed down the mountain I started to lose my footing as well and I slid about 75 to a hundred feet and then I climbed, realistically I crawled down the mountain to find the student who thankfully was conscious and alert. He was banged up pretty bad.

Lance Benjamino

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We expect it had just happened, seconds before he crawled out, otherwise he would have bled out immediately.

Gary Gross

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He was way down in the cave, in fact, the cave he was down in ... there was the initial level of the cave that we crawled into and found the first bone, and then the cave tunnels off to the side, and we found a bag, and then we actually found the actual body. It was over some more, and down even deeper into the ground.

Caleb Shumway

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We got some stops and crawled our way back into it, then when you have Klay Thompson and( Andrew Wiggins) Iguodala and Harrison Barnes and Draymond Green, and all those guys, they spread the floor really well.

Sam Mitchell just

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

She basically crawled from where she was injured down to a creek, it took her about two days to do that. And then she was able to drink from the creek with the water filter to stay alive.

Rusty Hotchkiss

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He crawled on top of me and he put his hand on my, inside of my thigh, and the other hand he wrapped around me, and he was holding me there, he told me that he needed somebody to be with him, to massage him, to brush his hair, to spend time with him, that he was lonely. And he said, 'And I need someone to, to have sex with me.'.

Sarah Baughn

Found on CNN
9 years ago

When I crawled out I was so cold, so I was warming myself near one of the piles that was still smoldering. I could see an arm. I could see nostrils. But I was numb to that by then, the smell is one that will never leave me.

Michiko Kiyo-oka

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I'm still a bit stunned. I was inside, I had just sat down after my speech and then I heard shots, we all dove to the floor as we heard the gunshots and tried to protect ourselves, and we crawled to the emergency exit.

Francois Zimeray

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When I crawled to the next room, it was horrible. I saw the dead body of our office assistant on fire, she was sitting on the chair with blood dripping from her body as she burned.

Shahrukh Khan

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother's cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

John Steinbeck

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Carbon atoms on a distant planet rearranged themselves into DNA, microorganisms formed, grew backbones, swam around the ocean, mutated into amphibians and crawled onto dry land—and finally a cab appeared at the mouth of the alley.

Mark Coggins, "The Immortal Game" (novel)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Joan Baez

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry, More light. Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon, incandescent lights that banish the darkness from our caves to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlights for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor. Light is knowledge, light is life, light is light.

Andrew Schneider

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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