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Meanings of crawling in English
Portuguese
rastejamento Catalan
arrossegada 
Synonyms
Examples for "creeping"
Examples for "creeping"
1
The Left Hand was no longer seeing new stars creeping into view.
2
Unfortunately for Coppola, however, the outside has a way of creeping in.
3
A new phrase was creeping in: HELOC, home equity line of credit.
4
Outside the financial sector, however, stock buying has been creeping up again.
5
Warmth was creeping through the house as the central heating took effect.
1
Detta changed course and began to crawl toward the gunslinger's inert body.
2
Small boys will crawl in under the canvas in spite of clubs.
3
The scoring rate had slowed to a crawl, and that's the result.
4
They have to crawl like animals, feeling their way through the mud.
5
The Chief Ranger did not pause in his crawl to the left.
1
But many others believe that involvement will continue to quietly creep up.
2
The coral seems reasonably healthy, thus far weathering-orperhaps inured to-temperaturecreep.
3
When this happens you get what we call 'creep' with knock-on effects.
4
That's a whole other problem, which is often fuelled by lifestyle creep.
5
The Christian religion did not creep into the world in the dark.
Usage of crawling in English
1
The goalkeeper was crawling across the penalty area for no apparent reason.
2
Today, for some reason, this sleepy harbor town was crawling with police.
3
The sea bottom was rich with crawling and swimming and growing things.
4
The last thing Gobekli needs is thousands of tourists crawling all over.
5
And it had guided the course of the crawling thread of red.
6
Yet he showed no sign of crawling, and no sign of talking.
7
You cannot lead men to the divine by crawling in the dust.
8
Captain Mayo led the way aft, crawling over the shingles and laths.
9
He made it clear that he disliked people crawling all over him.
10
Most were crawling along in the general syrup of humanity and traffic.
11
I thought for a moment, my skin crawling as my mind raced:
12
After several turnings, the ceiling went lower still, too low for crawling.
13
Under the bluff to the right Cloud was crawling from the river.
14
Everywhere beggars were crawling over the compound in various states of filth.
15
I ate bugs and small animals raw, crawling, dragging myself ever onward.
16
Shea didn't remember crawling or even saying that he had done so.
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Crawling through the time
Crawling across language varieties
United States of America
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United Kingdom
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Australia
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