crawl space
noun
: a shallow unfinished space beneath the first floor or under the roof of a building especially for access to plumbing or wiring
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The dramatization of one of the darkest chapters in American crime history has drawn plaudits for sidestepping easy sensationalism about the Chicago contractor and amateur clown who murdered 33 boys in the 1970s, burying them in a crawl space beneath his house.
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Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Just as the Peacock series depicted, Gacy buried nearly all of his victims in the crawl space under his home.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Don’t vent dryers into crawl spaces.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Derrick Groves, the 10th and final man who escaped from a New Orleans prison in May, was captured on Wednesday in the crawl space of an Atlanta home.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
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Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 Oct. 2025
Just as the Peacock series depicted, Gacy buried nearly all of his victims in the crawl space under his home.
—Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
Don’t vent dryers into crawl spaces.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Derrick Groves, the 10th and final man who escaped from a New Orleans prison in May, was captured on Wednesday in the crawl space of an Atlanta home.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for crawl space
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“Crawl space.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crawl%20space. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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