Prepared for a play

Usage examples of huddled.

The two terrified crowders, huddled together, skittered away as she approached.

The people cowered, an ancient reflex that dated back to the days when Purga had huddled in her burrow.

They were on the branches above and below him, huddled shapes with their legs drawn up beneath them and their long, fat tails dangling.

Alone, eyes wide, mouth gaping, she huddled there, panting, twitching at every leaf that stirred.

And at the farthest point of its orbit, the Devil's Tail sailed all of a third of the way to the nearest star, reaching at last a place where the sun itself was lost against the star fields, its huddled planets invisible.

She and her mate huddled closely around the two pups, and they listened to the howling of the wind, the clatter and crunch of trees being shattered, the scream of dying dinosaurs.

When they needed to rest they could only grub in the looser debris, making loose nests of ash and burned leaves and bits of wood, where they would lie shivering, huddled to share body warmth.

Moaning, chilled to the bone, Roamer burrowed into the branches of the mango and huddled, alone, waiting for everything to go away, and for her to be returned to the world she knew, of trees and fruit and anthros.

In the winter, as they felt their customary cold-weather torpor come on, the leaellyn pack huddled together.

All of them felt a shiver of apprehension as they huddled together—children at the center, adults with their backs facing outward—and prepared to enter a long night of unbroken darkness.

In the gathering dark they huddled together for protection, but there was no real sharing.

But when she tucked herself into a corner of the roomy hollow, huddled over a scrap of meat she had scavenged from one of the burnt carcasses, they tolerated her presence.

As the people tended and crooned to each other, she huddled over and tried to sleep.

Here Pebble huddled, his thrusting-spear at his side, peering out at the big, lame animal that was their target.

With tears freezing to his cheeks he dropped back to the ice and huddled up against his sister.