Example Sentences

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Tuberculosis has been crawling its way back into the spotlight.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025

For months now, Seattle’s live music industry has been crawling out of hibernation about as fast as your favorite slowcore band on tranquilizers.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 17, 2021

The outside of cockroaches is actually surprisingly clean, Schal says, unless the roach has been crawling all over your toilet bowl right before coming to your bed.

From The Verge • Jun. 6, 2018

“Disruptive,” said Robert Kodadek, the chief technology officer of ULC Robotics, the Long Island company that developed the robot that has been crawling under West End Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2017

"Then that durned Daisy Belle has been crawling in with me, that's all," he said.

From Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Stewart, Elinore Pruitt