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

She has met him at another tribunal since then; not where she has crouched before him, but where she has stood by his side.

From The Little Manx Nation - 1891 by Caine, Hall, Sir

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

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 Sue, Eugène

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 Scott, Walter, Sir