Example Sentences

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I am a tall man with a big voice, so I will crouch down and lower my voice when speaking to children.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2021

Out of the room and down the stairs and into the living room, where she will crouch on the couch with her eyes squinched shut and a pillow pressed over her head.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2013

If, like me, you don't have a life, then you will crouch in a corner of your bed secure in the knowledge that you will now never have time to acquire one.

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2010

Ridicule with laughter the hypocrite or evil schemer, and he will crouch at your feet or fly into self-destructive passion; but ridicule Abraham Lincoln and he lifts his clenched hand and smiles while he strikes.

From Why Lincoln Laughed by Conwell, Russell Herman

"Hurry, bring your shield over behind mine, and face it the other way," said I; "then we will crouch between the two in safety."

From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth