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Discover LudwigThe phrase "crawl back to" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to suggest a sense of defeat or humiliation, as in "He had to crawl back to his boss and apologize for his mistake." Example: After months of bragging about his new business venture, Jack's company failed and he had to crawl back to his old job.
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He remains calm and decides he must crawl back to where he left his car.
I will have to crawl back to reality soon, and that will be agony….
I had to crawl back to my house and my mother saw me and screamed.
I managed to crawl back to our lines and worse luck here I am.
He managed to crawl back to the house of a family named Ravoux, with whom he was living.
If it's smart, that is — if it doesn't insist, like us, on desperately trying to crawl back to the conditions that made the bubble.
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The barfly crawls back to his seat.
I crawled back to the classroom.
And so I go crawling back to AA.
On the fifth lap, he crawled back to the pits.
"We're still just crawling back to where we started".
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