Example Sentences

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Scarcely five minutes after they had been crouching under their desks, the children were in the playground, lined up by class, wearing the hard plastic helmets that were stored in each child’s locker.

From The Guardian • Aug. 24, 2017

Jet lag, which had been crouching in corners since I arrived last weekend, finally decided to leap out and smack me around.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2011

McCoy, a local oldtimer who had been crouching around New England for ten years, had been licked by young Billy Conn only a few weeks before.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had been crouching for a long time.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

Over the arm of the couch, I caught a glimpse of his face staring back at me through the dark beyond the window—where just a few minutes earlier I had been crouching.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes