Wondering how to use Crawl in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as creep or move.
Crawl in a sentence
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Crawl meaning
- To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground.
- To move forward slowly, with frequent stops.
- To act in a servile manner.
Synonyms of Crawl
Using Crawl
- The main meaning on this page is: To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground. | To move forward slowly, with frequent stops. | To act in a servile manner.
- Useful related words include: creep, move, travel, feel.
- In the example corpus, crawl often appears in combinations such as: to crawl, pub crawl, crawl space.
Context around Crawl
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crawl
- In this selection, "crawl" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, front, cells, first, space, butterfly and across stand out and add context to how "crawl" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 100m front crawl and breaststroke and 50m front crawl butterfly and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crawl" sits close to words such as administer, constantine and convict, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crawl
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Christ did you just crawl out from under a rock? (10 words)
From there it began a slow crawl several blocks west to Kits Beach. (13 words)
By age 5 or 6, most can master basic swim strokes like the front crawl. (15 words)
All tickets include one complimentary drink or shot, free cover to a drag show at Banks Ave Bar ($15 value, begins at 6 p.m.), a themed party cup for the first 100 check-ins and exclusive drink and food specials throughout the crawl. (44 words)
Franklyn's owner says sometimes he knocks the kids over with his hugs, and - even though he prefers lying on the floor - he'll crawl on top of whoever is on the sofa for a cuddle. (36 words)
The sheep had managed to crawl into the tunnel and was about 10ft along when it decided to turn around and crawl back out - except the narrow 2x2ft tunnel meant instead she became hopelessly trapped. (35 words)
Christ did you just crawl out from under a rock? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
In the seven events he took part in Calum won five – 50m front crawl, butterfly and breaststroke, as well as the 100m front crawl and breaststroke.
The sheep had managed to crawl into the tunnel and was about 10ft along when it decided to turn around and crawl back out - except the narrow 2x2ft tunnel meant instead she became hopelessly trapped.
In "The Crawl Space," Bob discovers a crawl space between the walls after repairing a roof leak.
Homes built on a crawl space may benefit from a radon collector installed under a "radon barrier" (a sheet of plastic that covers the crawl space).
The male cells then become amoeboid and crawl across, or sometimes both cells crawl into the tube.
They found that a breadth-first crawl captures pages with high Pagerank early in the crawl (but they did not compare this strategy against other strategies).
A boisterous crowd, many of whom came out on a cool night for a pregame pub crawl and a Sox hockey jersey giveaway, was into every pitch as Lynn made his no-hit bid.
After gathering their things, the team made the short drive to El Segundo for the loud, joyous crawl down Main Street.
After Republicans were able to successfully slow Democratic progress to a crawl last year, House leadership has more proactively limited debate and worked weekends to ensure key gun and abortion bills passed.
All tickets include one complimentary drink or shot, free cover to a drag show at Banks Ave Bar ($15 value, begins at 6 p.m.), a themed party cup for the first 100 check-ins and exclusive drink and food specials throughout the crawl.
Although the opening crawl has been an intrinsic part of since the beginning, Lucasfilm’s lack of movement on that front has meant one hasn’t been seen since 2019.
By age 5 or 6, most can master basic swim strokes like the front crawl.
Christ did you just crawl out from under a rock?
Despite her injuries, Nancy managed to crawl to her car and tried to call for help using an emergency button.
During the storm, John and Billie had to crawl through glass and debris to get to their bedroom on Tuesday, and their coach, as well as the trailer attached to it, nearly tipped over.
Episode 2 follows the trio of protagonists as they crawl through an abandoned museum and fight some infected people.
Everybody loves humorabout our fellow creatures who run jump and fly and crawl and swim and burrow above, on, and inside our prolific planet.
Excuse us while we stash a sachet of salt in our bags for our next bar crawl.
Franklyn's owner says sometimes he knocks the kids over with his hugs, and - even though he prefers lying on the floor - he'll crawl on top of whoever is on the sofa for a cuddle.
From there it began a slow crawl several blocks west to Kits Beach.
Common combinations with crawl
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to crawl 59×
- pub crawl 15×
- crawl space 13×
- crawl and 11×
- crawl back 11×
- the crawl 10×
- crawl out 9×
- crawl through 9×
- crawl to 8×
- crawl on 8×