crouch
verb (used without object)
to stoop or bend low.
is crouching
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present progressiveof crouch (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Behind the door, Mira is crouching over a small cooker in the shower tray.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
It’s dawn, and someone is crouching near the rows, cutting heads of lettuce, pulling up a few carrots, unearthing a white knobby thing and bringing it all indoors.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
“Sometimes the figure is crouching, sitting or kneeling; at other times it is standing still,” wrote New York Times reviewer Benjamin Genocchio.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021
On Instagram, she had captioned one of them, in which Sherman is crouching and holding a carton of eggs, “Clearly a #batshevadress woman.”
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 3, 2018
From the East to the West he is crouching.
From The New Morning Poems by Alfred Noyes
