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.