Sentence examples for crawl backwards from inspiring English sources

'He shouted at me: "Lie down and crawl backwards".

Like supertitles for dance, the words indicating time and place ("Berlin 2010") seem to be clarifying, while the ones labeling or possibly directing the action ("crawl backwards," "développé") are less helpful.

"No, don't worry, I'll go," I say, crawling backwards down the stairs.

I watched them master an approximation of crawling (backwards); take their first, hilariously drunken steps; learn to swim and ride a horse.

Ms Oxberry said: "He tunnelled through the rubble by hand and rescued the woman and one of her children, he then went back in for another child and came out crawling backwards while carrying a child".

In contrast, ∼71% of ChR2(C128S) animals reversed upon photoactivation and thereafter crawled backwards for extended periods, often even until the inactivating yellow pulse.

Harvest is creeping backwards.

I cycle past the Emirates on my way home – if I see a Sky camera I promise to do that weird backwards crawl thing towards the screen a la The Ring.

We're crawling on four wheels backwards, looking at its pinched seal face, the shimmering flanks, the dehydrated hands — the short, imperfect loveliness of groundhog.

Not only are there goodies such as a fully articulating air suspension and an excellent low range (plus locking differentials), but there's also Hill Descent Control, a system that uses the brakes to crawl the vehicle, forward or backwards, down any slope.

Myerson's writing is keenly observant: a bee crawls over a bloom, "falling backwards into the air… lifting off and away"; a freshly skinned rabbit has a "bright raw smell", Eliza feels a "wild, smashed" sensation on catching sight of the sea.