crouch
verb (used without object)
to stoop or bend low.
are crouching
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present progressiveof crouch.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Several people are crouching on a mountain of documents several feet high covering the floor.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
In the photo, Fisher and Reynolds are crouching down in front of a young Lourd outside.
From Fox News ● Dec. 29, 2021
Most of them are crouching among the rows of flower-pots that form a sort of lobby outside my house.
From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
Those two tigers, the army of Northern Virginia and the army of the Potomac, are crouching, and about to spring.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke
In the second act it is night; Telramund and Ortrud are crouching upon the steps of the Minster, opposite the palace, plotting revenge.
From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by J. A. Fuller-Maitland
