crouch
verb (used without object)
to stoop or bend low.
crouchingly
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a word derived from
crouch.
Example Sentences
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While speaking, he turns his own out of the path, and rides crouchingly to the rear of the bushes indicated, thus putting a screen between himself and the soldier-cranes.
From Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco by F.C. Tilney
With set eyes and quivering tail it advanced crouchingly, one slow step at a time, noiseless, sinister.
From The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson
And now a very meanly-clad priest, poor and wretched in appearance, came crouchingly forward to kiss her hand.
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Charles James Lever
Then he rose, crouchingly, next made a sprinter's start and bolted.
From The Grammar School Boys of Gridley or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
Waiting until the fellow had gone to the furthest limit of his post, the chums, flat on their stomachs, crawled forward until, on looking backward, they judged it safe to rise and move on crouchingly.
From Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
