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How to use the word crawling in a Sentence?

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They were crawling on their knees for about an hour, it was dark down there. They had one cell phone light, and that was it.

Firefighter John Loennecker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They Died Crawling: And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe, goodbye.

Sandra Morgan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I went with her and her girlfriend in the car, the person was swaying driving and I remember we hit either some garbage or a mailbox. When we got to my condo, she walked me to the door and tried something on with me. She was trying to kiss me. I was so sickened that I was crawling up the stairs inside trying not to throw up so my dad would n’t see me.

Andrea Jaeger

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

one night i saw the black widow crawling on my bed and the fear coursing through my veins felt like the best kind of hell

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

One of the struggles right now is this whole process is crawling a little bit more either because embassies are shut down or limited hours, limited staffing, this whole process has been backed up.

John Bleh

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We were really put in very extreme situations, crawling through very tight tunnels, i've had my butt stuck, I've had my head stuck and it's a challenge not to panic -- but also, you learn a lot about yourself and inner strength in those conditions.

Keneiloe Molopyane

Found on CNN
2 years ago

With the eyes of the nation watching us, we knew that we had to rise up and demonstrate to our friends in Washington, and as I said last night, Mr. President we humbly ask you for a federal solution, please give us federal voting rights act, what we did last night is the equivalent of us crawling on our knees to federal officials to tell( them), the time to act is now -- if not Texas, then when ?

Martinez Fischer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They need to really pick and choose very carefully.because for them it’s very easy to say, ‘Oh yeah, all cops are bad,’ and, ‘Let’s reform and defund the police,' yet they’re the very first ones to pick up the 911 when someone’s crawling over their back gate trying to get into their house.

Alex Villanueva

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Stock markets are crawling between optimism around the rollout of vaccines and worries that a jump in virus infections and fresh local lockdowns could further affect economic recovery prospects.

David Madden

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It's critical to diagnose early and to begin treatment as early as possible to stop the irreversible motor neuron loss, and make the achievement of motor milestones such as crawling, sitting and walking possible.

Olga Santiago

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Not sure how many lizards we found, but the snakes were large enough to give anyone crawling through a smoke-filled house a heart attack.

Chief Raymond Flannelly

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They're crawling on our bed sheets, they're crawling on our mattress.

Blake Collins

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We got poked and scratched by spiny branches when crawling through to access the animals.

Susie Bartlett

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

That would be the most logical, at this point … that it was from above, so that is obviously something they would be looking at is someone crawling through the ventilation system.

Emma Poole

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There was some ants crawling around. It kind of freaked me out a little bit.

Marco Lavecchia

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Life can be harsh sometimes, whatever happens keep crawling forward even if you are on your knees.

Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

It bothers me that I can't look at a picture, like a lotus flower, it's like it's crawling on me, like the picture is on me. I get dizzy, I feel nauseated and my head hurts. I have an anxiety attack times a thousand, like I'm jumping out of my skin.

Jennifer Andresen

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners and if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts.

Meryl Streep

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

…Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

Meryl Streep

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I am a little long in the tooth to be dressed up like some forest elf crawling around stalking 'hogs but it is just as fun as I remembered it,' i have a good time and the farmers get rid of a pest. As you look at the soybean fields, you'll see what we call 'ice cream cones.' The point of the ice cream cone is where the groundhog's burrow is. He'll eat in a semicircle out from his burrow. Groundhogs love eating fresh soybeans coming out of the ground.

James Ramsey

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would have been crawling here on all fours, none of this would have happened.

Arlene Holmes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think I had been driving for about 45 minutes and at about 7:45 a.m., I saw a group of cars crawling along, i pulled up with them and there were the two lions walking towards me. One of them saw the kudu [type of large antelope] in the bushes and I saw the lion crouch.

Carolyn Dunford

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We started to notice that she was having issues reaching her milestone of crawling, so at her regular pediatric check they did an eye screening and saw that she might have had a slight astigmatism.

Jessica Sinclair

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This leased house that we were living in -- there was an unfinished room downstairs where there was standing water and black mold. It was crawling up through the dry wall, like worms almost, into the air conditioning and heating ducts, and we were breathing it in for the four years. I got the fungus in my lung which can kill you.

Rita Wilson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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