crawl through
Frequency: 6.86.5 per million words
To move from one side to the other of an opening or space by crawling.
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- The explorers had to crawl through a narrow tunnel to reach the main chamber.
- A cat can crawl through the smallest of gaps.
- The baby learned to crawl through the play tunnel his parents bought him.
- Soldiers often have to crawl through mud and under barbed wire during training.
- He had to crawl through the dense undergrowth to find the lost ball.
- Rescuers were forced to crawl through the rubble of the collapsed building.
- The children giggled as they crawled through a large cardboard box.
- To fix the plumbing, I needed to crawl through the small access hatch.
- An insect was slowly crawling through a crack in the pavement.
- If we want to get to the other side, we'll have to crawl through this pipe.