How to Use crawl in a Sentence

crawl

1 of 2 verb

• Work on the project has crawled to a standstill.
• The bus crawled along the rough and narrow road.
• The days slowly crawled by.
• Does the baby crawl yet?
• The snake crawled into its hole.
• We got down on our knees and crawled through a small opening.
• The baby crawled across the floor toward her mother.
• The soldiers crawled forward on their bellies.
• They're doing construction on the road, so traffic is crawling.
• I worked late into the night, and it was 2 a.m. before I finally crawled into bed.
• One roach crawled out of a trash can.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2026
• Punk looked at Reigns and crawled back to him.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
• Two roaches crawled on a rice bin.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
• One crawled on a kitchen prep table.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
• William is so close to crawling.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• One roach crawled on the floor by the prep table.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
• Just look at what crawled up that ramp after them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2026
• Ma crawls toward you and plants her palms on your cheeks.
  — Molly Aitken, New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2026
• Nothing makes your skin crawl quite like a case of head lice.
  — Alena Hall, Verywell Health, 6 Mar. 2023
• Lacy swaths of it drape from the ceiling and crawl up the walls.
  — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• When a storm crawls, rainfall piles up over the same towns for days.
  — Chris Dolce, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
• When a storm crawls like this, rainfall piles up over the same towns for days.
  — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
• When a storm crawls like this, rainfall piles up over the same towns for days.
  — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
• Blocks away, Boise was crawling, too.
  — Michael Deeds may 1, Idaho Statesman, 1 May 2026
• One roach crawled on styrofoam up on the shelf.
  — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
• Chelsea Green crawled from under the ring and evened the odds.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 June 2026
• Bed bugs have no wings and must crawl everywhere.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Jan. 2026
• Some people on the stage then crawled off to get backstage as well.
  — ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
• The video shows the sergeant crawling on his stomach.
  — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
• All kinds of creatures will crawl in and make themselves at home.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2025

crawl

2 of 2 noun

• The bus was moving along at a crawl.
• Her strongest stroke is the crawl.
• Near the construction site, traffic had slowed to a crawl.
• Menus will vary for each crawl date.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 18 Mar. 2026
• Rogue One did not have a crawl.
  — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 23 May 2026
• The days crawl by and pile atop of each other.
  — Eli Sharabi, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
• But with the midafternoon rain, their march slowed to a crawl.
  — Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• The Mets’ offense has slowed to a crawl once again.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 23 May 2026
• The news crawl under my image said so.
  — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
• Oh, thinking about it is making my skin crawl.
  — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 11 June 2026
• The pattern and width of the crawl marks tells a lot about the turtle.
  — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 29 June 2023
• And so our kratom crawl continued.
  — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
• During rains, worms often come to the surface and crawl around.
  — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
• When pieces could be tracked down, the pandemic slowed shipping to a crawl.
  — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 3 July 2022
• The fenced toddler area will include a slide, crawl tunnel and swings.
  — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
• Kids can climb, crawl and slide through various games, ropes, ramps and tunnels.
  — Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2025
• The storm dumped 6 inches of snow there and reduced traffic to a crawl.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2022
• And the borders remain closed to all but the recent crawl of aid convoys.
  — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• There is no opening crawl, no wall of yellow font drifting into a star field.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Aid groups said Israeli inspections slowed the pace to a crawl.
  — Manuel Canales, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• The remnants of Ophelia make the closest pass and the storm slows to a crawl.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2023
• Some of the detainees crawl on the floor to take cover inside the building.
  — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Sep. 2025
• Flexible arms and legs allow the robot to walk, kneel, and crawl.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Feb. 2026
• Fundraising in the cryptocurrency world has slowed to a crawl in the first half of this year.
  — Julia Malleck, Quartz, 6 June 2023
• The heavy synthetic caps — propped atop dead-eyed, white mannequins — were enough to make your scalp crawl.
  — Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 19 Oct. 2022
• The ticket includes a souvenir mug, s’mores kit and a crawl map with a passport.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 5 Feb. 2026
• The play area will encourage kids to climb, crawl, tunnel, balance and dig.
  — cleveland, 8 June 2022
• So at three in the morning, Nweeia saw a polar bear crawl its way onto the ice floe.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
• That means pitchers can no longer rub the ball and stare into center field, slowing the game to a crawl.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
• The cast and crew of Stranger Things 5 are going on one final crawl.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 5 Jan. 2026