crouch
verb (used without object)
to stoop or bend low.
were crouching
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past progressiveof crouch.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"Here they were, crouching under the table during the first air raid," he says.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were crouching on the slope, too frightened to move.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Bon and Bleoberis were crouching over a bright fire, to which the bitter wind seemed to have given the property of throwing out light without heat Even the fire seemed frozen, like a painted one.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
The sparrows in the plowland were crouching in terror of the kestrel.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
They were crouching behind their eyes waiting for him to speak—just as I recognized that I was trembling behind my own.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
