Example Sentences

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"Here they were, crouching under the table during the first air raid," he says.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were caves everywhere running into the cloud, and at the entrances to the caves the Cloud-Men’s wives were crouching over little stoves with frying-pans in their hands, frying snowballs for their husbands’ suppers.

From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl

We were crouching behind a tree, staring at the donut shop in the middle of the woods.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan

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

They were crouching on the slope, too frightened to move.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman