Word Finder - crawled

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To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.

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Clutching my wounded side, I crawled back to the trench.

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To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.

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The rush-hour traffic crawled around the bypass.

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To act in a servile manner.

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Don't come crawling to me with your useless apologies!

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(with "with") See crawl with.

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To feel a swarming sensation.

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The horrible sight made my skin crawl.

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To swim using the crawl stroke.

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I think I'll crawl the next hundred metres.

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To move over an area on hands and knees.

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The baby crawled the entire second floor.

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To visit while becoming inebriated.

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They crawled the downtown bars.

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To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

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Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficiently.

He crawled very slowly and carefully.

When Alex came home Destiny crawled into his lap.

Lisa showered and crawled into the single bed in the guestroom.

She crawled up on the window seat and curled into a ball.

A bug crawled across her leg, and she swiped it away.

Warmth crawled up her neck.

She showered and changed into her new nightgown, but Alex was still downstairs when she crawled into bed.

He crawled into bed and pulled the covers up without responding.

She crawled into bed and pulled up the covers, scooting back and leaning against the headboard.

He then crawled out of the hatch and was in open space (although securely tethered to the capsule, of course).

I decided to watch him and he crawled for about 3 minutes before getting to a crouch for the rest of the way.

The bulletins you post on your MySpace profile will get crawled by search engines and show up in search engine results.

In the early days of the web, pages were indexed (or "spidered" or "crawled", depending on your preferred metaphor) based on the text in the HTML document.

Warmth crawled up her neck as she grabbed her nightgown and pulled it over her head.

He crawled onto the bed and lay down beside her, his expression becoming sober.

They crawled into bed and she rolled on her side with her back to him.

She crawled out of bed, snapping on the light as her stocking feet hit the floor.

She lifted the blankets and crawled into bed feeling disappointed.

A flush crawled up his neck, across his face and hid behind flashing dark eyes.

Warmth flooded her neck and crawled up her cheeks.

When she crawled into bed and turned off the light, the night sky performed a fireworks display in the distance.

A couple of blocks away, I crawled into a horrible alley and began to cry out.

I crawled to my knees and vomited, and thinking I'd die my throat hurt so badly to do so.

When I crawled out of toilet a uniformed officer was waiting for me.

Water streamed through the gutters, and those cars out in the storm crawled block-to-block.

She crawled and clawed her way to Dusty, looking wildly for her brother.

He shoved her into the car, and she crawled as far from him as she could.

Sofia crawled into bed and cried again.

The lights were on, but shadows crawled from the corners and choked the lights until they were shriveled, glowing orbs.

They moved like smoke, shifting and swirling as they crawled the walls.

Shadows crawled over the world around her, and the tension in the air made it hard to breathe.

Westlake plugged forward, his nose nearly at the windshield, which was spider-webbed with nicks and cracks, as the old car crawled higher.

He didn't even mind the caravan of slow moving campers and motor homes that crawled along the summer byway, frequently stopping for photos of the majestic scenery before them.

They had crawled past it by no more than fifty feet.

Dean crawled on his hands and knees, peering under the vehicle for Billy's young girlfriend but there was no one else, only a liquor bottle—unlike its victim, unbroken.

The body was pretty far back and even then, we were lost before we crawled our way out.

Long after she crawled into bed, she lay awake, thinking about Alex.

Warmth crawled up Carmen's face.

She crawled over him and snatched it, wiping its blade on her clothes before she hesitated.

Oh, god, Ully, this smells like a skunk crawled into my clothes!

Katie crawled under the comforter.

She crawled on her knees to Toby, heart hammering and hands shaking as she rolled him onto his back.

Kiera glanced around again, shook her head, and crawled into bed.

I skied before you crawled.

Fred O'Connor finished reading the latest pages as Mrs. Lincoln crawled onto his lap.

She crawled in bed with him while he was asleep.

Then laid out his clothes for the evening and crawled into bed for a catnap.

Warmth crawled up her neck at the thought of the impression she must have given Alex.

Next, she crawled into some sweats.

Warmth crawled up her neck and she smiled up at him wryly.