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Usage examples of crawl.

There was, in fact, a little more than a meter of space into which Eleana now crawled.

At last, he saw Adelaide, alive with rats, crawling out on to the settee.

As the FBI set up a command center in the ballroom of the Vista Hotel, and agents from the Bureau and ATF began to crawl through the crater to assess the massive damage, the authorities gave no order to hold or delay any flights departing for the Middle East.

The thought of federal agents crawling around the blast site under fire helmets was a bit much for some marshals, especially since all but two of them were officially excluded from the probe.

If it is warm weather, the Aleut will turn his skin skiff upside down, crawl into the hole head first and sleep there.

When pressed for room, the Aleut has been known to crawl head foremost, body whole, right under the manhole and lie there prone between the feet of the paddlers with nothing between him and the abysmal depths of a hissing sea but the parchment keel of the bidarka, thin as paper.

Would you have us abandon our great hopes, crawl back to the cluster, embrace our fatal allomorphic heritage, and go down to extinction as we exhaust the balance of our dwindling resources?

Leaden daylight, passing through the panes, speckled the room with the watery-gray shadows of the hundreds of beads that tracked down the glass, and Sam was so edgy that he could almost feel those small ameboid phantoms crawling over him.

Now, as the sun crawled above the horizon, Kamil ordered an entire company of his Amn Al-Khass commandos, along with one of his hunter units, to begin a systematic approach to the ISET team.

For there, side by side on the stone floor, are Agnes and the scullery-maid Janey, both with their backs to him and their arses in the air, crawling along on their hands and knees, dipping scrubbing-brushes by turns into a large pail of soapy water.

A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.

Kochi, the astrogeologist, had to crawl out of the cell to give herself room enough to stand.

As the Dutch astrophysicist began crawling around and underneath the contraption, Nash went to help Kawakami fold up the discarded shrouds.

Chari crawled over to Balthazar who sat in a chair in the center of the room.

Within the pack, Bart examined the worms of tension that crawled through his belly, leaving acid trails.