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

Others take any post they can secure, and a good many are crouching on the ground in all sorts of postures, making a variety which amounts to unevenness.

From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by Crawford, David Lindsay, Earl of

That is why you two are crouching in the kitchen here.

From The Day of Wrath by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)

Rome pours her myriads forth, a vassal band, And foreign powers are crouching at thy gate; Yet dost thou deeply sigh, as if oppressed by fate.

From A Handbook for Latin Clubs by Paxson, Susan