Example Sentences

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Just as he finished speaking he suddenly turned toward the window, at which his keen vision had caught sight of a moving shadow, as though someone might have been crouching without, and listening.

From The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave by Carson, James

He may have been crouching there for a long time.

From The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings by Burnham, Margaret

These past two months when we have been crouching and waiting for the blow to fall have seemed as long as all the preceding months of the war put together.

From Rilla of Ingleside by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

And if you had been there all by yourself, you would never have dreamed of shooting over the edge of the trenches—you would most probably have been crouching down in the pit.

From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich

He looked cautiously about at the many huge bowlders behind which a hundred men might have been crouching unseen by him, advantageous as was his position.

From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by Brehm, George