Example sentences for: crawling

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

  • 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.)

  • See, there's one now, crawling under that bed of Xerox.

  • Sure, the school bus is crawling with safety violations and doesn't contain seat belts and will be taking the kids to classrooms run by teachers who never actually had to take the subjects they're teaching, but at least according to the WSJ "Business Bulletin," in a few years there will be satellite-based technology available to families that will let them know to the second exactly when the bus is arriving.

  • But the place looked pretty safe--it was crawling with SWAT teams, helicopters, rifle-toting policemen, cop cars, police dogs, and armored vehicles--and I needed to get home and search for my brother, so I started walking.

  • 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."


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