Thesaurus results for CROUCH

crouch

verb

ˈkrau̇ch

as in to huddle

to lie low with the limbs close to the body the cat crouched in the bushes, waiting for the right moment to pounce on the chipmunk

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Recent Examples of crouch When The Times connected with Reyes, she was crouched down backstage at the Lovinger Theatre at Lehman College in the Bronx. —

Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026 Jones’ wife Marie came out to the mound for the first pitch with daughters Jami and Staci, who threw the ball to Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman crouched behind the plate. —

Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026 Kunkel, a freelance journalist at a protest outside an immigration detention center in Chicago on September 26, was crouched behind a van when an agent took aim from a safe perch behind a chain link fence. —

Bob Ortega, CNN Money, 10 Mar. 2026 People stood, crouched and leaned against cars, eating shawarma, nihari burgers, kunafa and stretchy ice cream. —

Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 8 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for crouch

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The boiler is broken, so Kuhner huddles by a small space heater in his office in the winter.

— Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
The opening act had started playing—a local band that never broke out, Sacagawea—but Russ and Cherry just huddled a little closer and kept talking.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026