Collocations for "crawl"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "crawl" in context.
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crawl
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- crawl on [all fours, your hands and knees]
- a [spider, bug, insect] was crawling [across, up, through]
- [spiders] were crawling all over
- learning to crawl
- crawl around the [floor, room]
- crawl out of the [hole, ground]
- crawl out from under the [bed, table, rug]
- crawl into bed (after a long day)
- crawl into bed with [him, a good book, a glass of wine]
- (want to) crawl back into bed
- (managed to) crawl to safety
- crawl through [the tunnel, a vent]
- crawl back [into your hole, under your stone]
- the traffic was crawling (along)
- go crawling back to her
- don't come crawling back to me [if, when]
- the [long, arduous, lengthy] crawl (back to)
- [began, started] the crawl back to
- was [swimming, doing] the [front, back] crawl
- The [cars, traffic] slowed to a crawl.
- [reduced, lowered] [the, his] speed to a crawl
- walked at a [suspicious, circumspect, slow] crawl
- go on a [bar, pub] crawl
- more a crawl than a walk
'crawl' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):