Example Sentences

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Mr. Murphy and his team have crouched through crumpled doorways and peered through voids where walls stood a month ago, to determine if buildings are safe, fixable or broken beyond repair and requiring demolition.

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2012

I might even have crouched down in the bushes; I don’t know.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2012

The centuries seemed to dissolve as we bent over the pages to read Newton's neatly composed amendments, just as he must have crouched when he was writing them.

From The Guardian • May 15, 2010

Where they have crouched and crawled and prayed I stand, the self-doomed, unafraid, Unfellowed, friendless and alone, Indifferent as the herringbone, Firm as the mountain ridges where I flash my antlers on the air.

From Time Magazine Archive

Max couldn’t have crouched down beside the school stairs without being observed.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix