crawl back (to someone)

Examples of crawling

crawling

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The pariahs looked like disgusting creatures crawling upon their bellies.
Then crawling a few steps was commenced, keeping the same relaxed, lengthened posture.
A foreign woman in modern clothes runs across the stage, and others follow, crawling across, over and under the spectators' rostra, prowling about or hiding.
That was a pre-announced crawling peg, so analytically the new regime was equivalent to the fixed exchange rate.
Soaked socks, torn drum skins, hands crawling at the mesh of playpens while tinny xylophones plunked eerily pinching fingers.
For example, as noted earlier, crawling is widely assumed to be an ontogenetic stage.
The edges of the tents were dug firmly into the ground to prevent insects crawling under them.
Typically, motor development appears as a sequence of postural milestones - sitting, crawling, and walking.
For example, sitting, crawling, and walking postures involve different regions of permissible sway for different key pivots around which the body rotates.
This is kept filled with a solution which prevents the access of crawling insects.
At approximately 8 - 10 months of age, typically developing infants begin to move about independently, by crawling, bottom-shuffling, and so on.
Later on, rolling, crawling, sitting and walking were introduced in their statements.
There are armed men crawling all over the building you are in.
So 1991 brought another change in the regime - fixed exchange rate was substituted with the crawling peg.
The first evidence for brain-like precursors is the collection of nerves that are involved in controlling movement like the crawling of earthworms or flatworms.
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