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 Noyes, Alfred