crawl slowly
Frequency: 6.86.2 per million words
To move on hands and knees at a slow speed.
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Examples (10)
- The baby crawled slowly towards his mother.
- The injured soldier is crawling slowly towards safety.
- Traffic was crawling slowly along the motorway after the accident.
- A large caterpillar crawls slowly up the stem of the plant.
- He had to crawl slowly through the narrow ventilation shaft.
- The long afternoon seemed to be crawling slowly by.
- The search-and-rescue robot will crawl slowly over the rubble.
- Crawling slowly was the only way to get under the low fence without being seen.
- The spy was instructed to crawl slowly past the guards' window.
- The ancient computer program crawled slowly through the massive database.