crawl

[krɔːl]

Definition:
1. A very slow movement.
2. A swimming stroke; arms are moved alternately overhead accompanied by a flutter kick.
3. A slow creeping mode of locomotion (on hands and knees or dragging the body).
4. Move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground.
5. Feel as if crawling with insects.
6. Be crawling with.

Use 'crawl' in a sentence:

1. They had not foreseen the higher inflation in France when most of Western Europe was crawling out of recession.
2. I began to crawl on my hands and knees towards the door.
3. I began to crawl on my hands and knees toward the door.
4. A child learns to crawl before he learns to walk.
5. "I saw it crawl up the wall bit by bit. It did not stop, but went on and on. And I thought I could do the same. So I recited it bit by bit, and did not give up," said Tom.
6. So now I have to crawl my way back.
7. The woman in the moonlight saw a mouse crawl into the house.
8. As he tried to crawl away, he was hit in the shoulder.
9. The rock was slippery as a ball, and they had to crawl rather than climb.
10. I watched the moth crawl up the outside of the lampshade.
11. Our baby is just starting to crawl.
12. Chris crawled on his hands and knees out onto the highway.
13. The Research and Development of Crawl Device in Small Pipe.
14. I think I can crawl back up.
15. The traffic on the off-ramp slowed to a crawl.
16. "You can't say keg party at Arizona State is much better than bar crawl at the University of Wisconsin," he explained.
17. She slowed the car to a crawl.
18. My schoolmates watched time crawl every afternoon, waiting an eternity for the three o'clock bell.
19. Victorians started putting women in a box, and they're still trying to crawl out of it.
20. Control System Design, Simulation and Experiment Research for the Crawl Type Arc Welding Robot.
21. I hated this man, his very touch made my skin crawl.
22. He can swim breaststroke, backstroke and crawl.
23. Her hair was crawling with lice.
24. It makes my flesh crawl to hear you.
25. Crawl the Content Source again.
26. The baby began to crawl, then managed her first tottering steps.
27. At times the president's motorcade slowed to a crawl.
28. I expected him to do 50 lengths of the crawl.
29. You suppose to teach her how to crawl.
30. Most nights he will crawl up and sleep on my shoulder and snuggle into my neck.
31. The room was crawling with vermin.
32. They crawled along on their bellies.
33. This will allow the robot to crawl around the gastrointestinal tract, perform treatment with appropriate surgical tools, and perform biopsies.
34. Don't worry if your baby seems a little reluctant to crawl or walk.
35. She's always crawling to the boss.
36. We were crawling along the narrow steel lattice of the bridge.
37. They ran a cable from their machine through a crawl space between the basement and the stage.
38. The columns crawl through a maze of giant corridors down which fierce snow-fed torrents foam under skies of brass.
39. The traffic slowed to a crawl.
40. The most elementary form of moral reasoning—the ethical equivalent of learning to crawl—is to weigh others' interests against one's own.
41. A man was crawling away from the burning wreckage.
42. I felt something crawl up my arm.
43. There's a spider crawling up your leg.
44. Three prisoners escaped by crawling under the wire.
45. The weeks crawled by.
46. This place is crawling with police.
47. The place was crawling with journalists.
48. I literally crawled to the car.
49. The Bismarck could now move only at a crawl and her crew were exhausted, hopeless, and utterly demoralized.
50. I was heading on a secret mission that made my flesh crawl.
51. You need to coordinate legs, arms, and breathing for the front crawl.
52. She crawled forward inch by inch.
53. The traffic was crawling along.
54. Colleagues today recall with humor how meetings would crawl into the early morning hours.