crawl back
Frequency: 5.53.5 per million words
To return to a place by crawling.
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Examples (10)
- As night fell, we managed to crawl back to our lines.
- The wounded soldier had to crawl back to the safety of the trench.
- The baby quickly learned to crawl back to his favorite toy whenever it was taken away.
- After his business failed, he had to crawl back to his parents for help.
- He swore he would never crawl back to her asking for forgiveness.
- She was so humiliated she felt like she had to crawl back under a rock.
- If you leave this job on bad terms, don't even think about trying to crawl back later.
- The exhausted spelunker carefully began to crawl back through the narrow passage.
- After the argument, he knew he would eventually have to crawl back and apologize.
- The injured cat managed to crawl back home despite its injuries.