Sentence examples for crawl closer from inspiring English sources

He has watched the Mets play raggedly, has watched the Philadelphia Phillies crawl closer to first place and has heard the mounting criticism of his subdued managerial style.

Infected lizards crawl closer to a heat source and increase their body temperature.

It was crawling closer and closer, at 10 or 20 m.p.h., spitting lightning and giant hail, trying to make a tornado.

With 284 victories, Maddux has crawled closer to becoming the 22nd pitcher to notch 300 and could reach it around this time next season.

Maybe the Twins, their line of vision filled with red for the second straight night, could envision their splendid season crawling closer to an abrupt conclusion.

They are still under.500, but they crawled closer to their short-term goal with a 3-0 victoverover the Carolina Hurricanes tonight in front of 15,559 at Nassau Coliseum.

His racist cop was the best thing in "Crash," and his rescue of Thandie Newton from an upturned car, with the flames crawling closer, has rightly burned a hole in viewers' minds.

When the Philippine soldiers realized they had finally entered the enemy lair, they began crawling closer, and came within 15 yards of the camp, close enough to see the guerrillas' makeshift plastic tents, when they were spotted and the firefight ensued.

As the cab crawled closer I saw platforms, short shorts, and the bobbing heads of the night's three hosts.

So the Lakers crawled closer to the team record for worst winning percentage since moving to Los Angeles in 1960, a distinction currently held by the 1974-75 team, which went 30-52.

Off-screen grunts accompany crawling close-ups of bloody sneakers and a corpse's wrinkly scrotum; a knife and an ax are snickeringly deployed.