Example sentences for: crawling

How can you use “crawling” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It's as if you were crawling across the desert, desperately thirsty, and you meet a fellow who says, "What you need is some lemonade."

  • I dream'd this mortal part of mineWas Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;Which crawling one and every wayEnthralled my dainty Lucia .Me thought, her long small legs & thighsI with my Tendrils did surprize;Her Belly, Buttocks, and her WasteBy my soft Nerv'lits were embrac'd :About her head I writhing hung,And with rich clusters (hid amongThe leaves) her temples I behung:So that my Lucia seem'd to meYoung Bacchus ravisht by his tree.My curles about her neck did craule,And armes and hands they did enthrall;So that she could not freely stir,(All parts there made one prisoner.)

  • A Time investigation finds that nursing homes neglect patients: Seniors have died of thirst and starvation; some facilities are crawling with maggots.

  • I was impatient with The Straight Story 's opening--the arty dissolves, the crawling pace, the sense of stasis.

  • There's probably a worm crawling through that apple.


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