Example Sentences

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Strong testified that once he took Ward-Blake to the side of his police cruiser, he started searching the man’s upper body and had crouched down by his ankles.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

With his unlidded eye, the photographer spotted us where we had crouched behind the piano.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

Stedding and the steward once more came down, and each taking the second mate by the shoulder led him out, from the place where had had crouched ion the starch boxes.

From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2011

For more than two months General Sir Harold Alexander's British had crouched along the 35-mile front stretching from the Qattara Depression to the sea.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had crouched down in front of Joaquin upon his arrival at her house, smiled with her yellowing teeth, and said, “Do you know what iced tea is, sweetheart?”

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway