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n. (crawl space English)
Usage examples of "crawl spaces".
Someone had been digging into the floor, opening up crawl spaces and installing a loom of cables that ran to a compact signal-processing mainframe squatting on the remains of what had once been a very expensive dressing table.
Wedge-shaped spaces under stairs, sewers blocked with ice, collapsed watch towers with makeshift roofs of elkhide, disused roast pits, abandoned outhouses and dry wells, burrows dug into the great mounds of snow that built up along the city's south wall, and cracks in the very city itself, leading downward to vaults of precision-cut stone and warrens of crawl spaces, underspaces, and sinkholes: Ash had seen people slip into them all.
Eyes watched Jack from the backs of dark rooms, between lattices, from crawl spaces beneath porches.
All the mechanical equipment-water pipes, steam pipes, electric conduits-were concentrated in crawl spaces between floors, for easy access and to help soundproof the building.
Returning to his lab after retrieving some test results from Pathology, Carson moved awkwardly through the narrow crawl spaces of the Fever Tank.
They're stacked like cut wood in the barracks, and many spend their nights huddled in the crawl spaces beneath the buildings just to get away from the wind and blowing sand.
A truly complete inspection is a laborious physical feat and requires poking into the farthest recesses of the attic (for drywood termites) and crawling around dirty, dank crawl spaces.
He would know that all such beachhouses have crawl spaces, so he would find the trap door, go down in the hole, and close it after him.
Caverns big enough to shelter half a city are often connected by crawl spaces too low for an infant to pass.
There were lots of places in the Flats where the division of the old rooms wasn't very good, so there were crawl spaces, and she was trying to find all of them.
With his slighter build, Soloman would be much better suited to navigating the crawl spaces.
A good place to hide, maybe too good the solid-looking bulkheads concealed any number of crawl spaces and access tubes for the engineers' use.
Ducking lower, he scuttled along in tiny crawl spaces, smelly air shafts, and power-conduit tubes.