Words similar to crawling

Example sentences for: crawling

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

A Time investigation finds that nursing homes neglect patients: Seniors have died of thirst and starvation; some facilities are crawling with maggots.
All the better to recognize sensation caused by other objects, such as, say, poisonous insects crawling up our arms.
Perhaps the e-raters think technology is still crawling along as it did when Theodore Vail cut his monopoly deal.
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.
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.)