crouch
verb (used without object)
to stoop or bend low.
has crouched
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present perfectof crouch (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The photographer has crouched at ground level to take the shot so that she looms larger than life in the frame, the defiant uptilt of her chin emphasised.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2018
The noble enemy who met and well-nigh mastered my sword cannot become my slave like him who has crouched beneath it.
From The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott
She has crouched before France repeatedly, when she had much better ground for fighting her than she now has for taking preliminary steps to fight us.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
He has crouched behind a sage-bush, and will sit there and listen and tremble until you get within six feet of him, when he will get under way again.
From Roughing It, Part 1. by Mark Twain
Noble youth, frightened by the fire, my bear has escaped; I am running after him—he has crouched down yonder not far from the railing.
From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue
