Clutching my wounded side, Icrawled back to the trench.
1701,Nehemiah Grew, “Of Celestial Mind”, inCosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God.[…], London:[…] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford:[…],→OCLC, 2nd book, paragraph 32,page83:
A VVorm finds vvhat it ſearches after, only by Feeling, as itcravvls from one thing to another. VVhereas a Man, having Eyes, ſees it in a Moment, all before him.
'Childrencrawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,' he said. 'The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]'
(transitive) To move over (an area) on hands and knees.
The babycrawled the entire second floor.
(transitive) To move over (an area) slowly, with frequent stops.
Theycrawled the downtown bars.
2015, Fujino Omori,Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Vol. 4 (light novel), Yen Press LLC,→ISBN:
"I used tocrawl the Dungeon like you do, Bell, saving up money... But one day, I screwed verything up. Got thoroughly wrecked by a monster, and it ate my right arm."
2019, Leigh Landry,Cajun Two-Step: The Complete Series, Leigh Landry:
Eric hadcrawled the downtown bar scene with these guys many nights, after gigs and back when they were all in college together. Eric liked hanging with them, because they were as comfortable hanging anywhere—sports bars; gay clubs; […]
2021, Antonio Alcala Gonzalez, Carl H. Sederholm,Lovecraft in the 21st Century: Dead, But Still Dreaming, Routledge,→ISBN:
One of the later Crawl trailers, the Nintendo Switch version, advertises its key gameplay in a sentence, “Crawl the dungeon while your friends possess the traps, beasts, and bosses against you” before later adopting the phrase[…]
22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV ClubThe Hunger Games[1]
The openingcrawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.
