Example Sentences

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In this one, I am crawling through a tunnel, trying to escape from something I cannot see.

From Nature • Sep. 1, 2020

Perhaps I am crawling parallel to the lines, and that might go on forever.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

For some rime, while I am crawling about, she has rocking-chair work.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

I have had a bad spring and summer, almost constantly very unwell; but I am crawling on in my book on "Variation under Domestication."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir