How to Use crawl in a Sentence

crawl

1 of 2 verb
Definition of crawlnext
Synonyms for crawlnext
  • Work on the project has crawled to a standstill.
  • The bus crawled along the rough and narrow road.
  • The days slowly crawled by.
  • Does the baby crawl yet?
  • The snake crawled into its hole.
  • We got down on our knees and crawled through a small opening.
  • The baby crawled across the floor toward her mother.
  • The soldiers crawled forward on their bellies.
  • They're doing construction on the road, so traffic is crawling.
  • I worked late into the night, and it was 2 a.m. before I finally crawled into bed.
  • Now, the Stars are in a 3-0 hole that is rarely crawled out of in the NHL.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Lacy swaths of it drape from the ceiling and crawl up the walls.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • She was injured, dropped to the ground, and crawled to safety.
    — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Your heart has no depths, like the scorpion who crawls to the bottom of the ocean.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Nothing makes your skin crawl quite like a case of head lice.
    — Alena Hall, Verywell Health, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The driver then stopped the bus and left his seat as Tobias crawled his way toward the rear of the bus.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 May 2023
  • Gazal and her mother managed to crawl out of the rubble.
    — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024
  • In the aftermath of the attack, the man managed to crawl to his tent and call his cousin for help.
    — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
  • Mounds of what looked like grain had spilled from the train cars and molten sulfur, like lava, crawled across the grass.
    — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • At 9 months old, most babies are just learning how to stand and crawl on their own.
    — Jordan D. Brown, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2023
  • Set up dry as a tunnel for the littles to bounce and crawl through, or add water for all ages to race down.
    — Angel Madison, Women's Health, 30 June 2023
  • Huda watched in shock as Salem crawled into the burning bus.
    — Nathan Thrall, Curbed, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Reach down to ground and crawl out into a plank position.
    — Andi Breitowich, Women's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The manager killed all three roaches crawling on the floor.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Legs and arms went up to reveal giant wings, and Ms. Klum crawled through a set of legs and stood at the center atop the thighs of one of her flock mates.
    — Madison Malone Kircher, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • What seems to be the entirety of the tent is covered in daddy longlegs crawling across the screen.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • But even before that last, final breath, the cockroach that crawled on the Met’s red carpet in May was a true smash.
    — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Every minute, more of my soldiers crawl from the river into the sunlit world of the living.
    — Dennard Dayle, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • From its first appearance in Colorado in the late 1960s, CWD has crawled steadily across the country.
    — Erika Howsare, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
  • Gonna crawl into a cave now (edit room) and put it all together.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2023
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crawl

2 of 2 noun
  • The bus was moving along at a crawl.
  • Her strongest stroke is the crawl.
  • Near the construction site, traffic had slowed to a crawl.
  • The pattern and width of the crawl marks tells a lot about the turtle.
    — Lawrence Specker | Lspecker@al.com, al, 29 June 2023
  • But with the midafternoon rain, their march slowed to a crawl.
    — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The remnants of Ophelia make the closest pass and the storm slows to a crawl.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Fearful of what lay ahead, Abu Khalil slowed to a crawl.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The seven-day eviction case has since slowed to a crawl.
    — Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
  • That might have been the case in 2005 when search engines were learning to crawl.
    — Townsend Belisle, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The end of December was a tough stretch for the Wings, who finished the month on an 3-9-1 crawl.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2023
  • The storm dumped 6 inches of snow there and reduced traffic to a crawl.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
  • That said, the software has slowed to a crawl – to the point that it’s become annoying.
    — Scott Kramer, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Fundraising in the cryptocurrency world has slowed to a crawl in the first half of this year.
    — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 6 June 2023
  • And the borders remain closed to all but the recent crawl of aid convoys.
    — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Those whose homes survived face a long crawl back to normal.
    — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2022
  • When pieces could be tracked down, the pandemic slowed shipping to a crawl.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 3 July 2022
  • And then the pandemic hit, and everything slowed to a crawl.
    — Peter Guest, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Aid groups said Israeli inspections slowed the pace to a crawl.
    — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Hit the epic swells of Victoria and then ride the tram around Melbourne for a coffee shop crawl.
    — Elizabeth Preske, Travel + Leisure, 29 Apr. 2023
  • That means pitchers can no longer rub the ball and stare into center field, slowing the game to a crawl.
    — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Do as the Spanish do and turn a crisp Washington evening into a tapas crawl.
    — Leena Kim, Town & Country, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The heavy synthetic caps — propped atop dead-eyed, white mannequins — were enough to make your scalp crawl.
    — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The rocket made the trip by slow crawl, riding atop a moving platform named the Crawler-Transporter 2.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The story slows to a crawl toward the end, even with a scene featuring a carjacking.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The play area will encourage kids to climb, crawl, tunnel, balance and dig.
    — cleveland, 8 June 2022
  • With everyone fearful of the virus and the future, momentum slowed to a crawl.
    — Emily Yahr, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
  • After Ezra was born, Tim drove home at a crawl, afraid to go over 30 miles an hour with this tiny, fragile being in the car.
    — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The list goes on and on, like an opening exposition crawl.
    — Vulture, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Don your Santa suit or kit yourself out as an elf, reindeer or Mrs. Claus and join in this ages 21-up bar crawl through the city.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Friday’s events include live music and a gallery crawl.
    — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 1 Mar. 2024

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