Example Sentences

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Driving home with my brother after a festival at the Gorge we were crawling along in bumper-to-bumper traffic.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 1, 2023

“I understand that the children were sitting on the couch for a wellness check and cockroaches were crawling all over them,” next-door neighbor Lisa LaBean told WXYZ.

From Washington Times • Oct. 31, 2022

“My mom was like, ‘You were crawling around in a bateau in 1988,’ ” Smith says.

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2022

The story of modern Ukraine begins a little over 100 years ago, at the end of World War I, when new states were crawling out of the ruins of defeated empires across Europe.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022

The creaking wooden sailing ships were crawling with rats.

From I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis