Examples of crawl

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Then crawling a few steps was commenced, keeping the same relaxed, lengthened posture.
Many of these doomed larvae had crawled onto the sides of the vial rather than remaining on the food.
The nymph crawls above ground, where it unfolds its wings and becomes the winged form capable of spreading the phylloxera above ground.
The pariahs looked like disgusting creatures crawling upon their bellies.
One might have worked upright, with a 'loose-eye', for instance, while another might have crouched and crawled on its belly while deploying its 'collie-eye'.
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.
The edges of the tents were dug firmly into the ground to prevent insects crawling under them.
Open fires are increasingly less common in homes today but, where they do exist, the crawling child and toddler need to be protected.
She mutely crawls up to the pulpit on her knees and falls at his feet.
His example is crawling becoming walking - a stage of motor development.
When these are touched, the leaves respond by closing, trapping whatever was crawling over them.
When the emergence hole was complete, the adult crawled out of the host egg onto the leaf epidermis.
Once there, they flew or crawled upwards, through the funnel unit, towards the light and into the sample tube (fig. 2).
Being unable to burrow, it continued crawling on the surface for more than an hour after deposition.
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