Sentence examples for crawl like from inspiring English sources

I have to crawl like a cockroach up stairs".

There are a few adjectives that just make my skin crawl, like sinful.

I can crawl like a motherfucker.' Havrilesky is not always that intense – she can be ridiculously funny as well.

Nikki's voice is both innocent and jaded, conjuring up a backwoods world of "witch-tit freezing" rivers and mountains that "crawl like a slow blue animal".

In the hills above Pristina, khaki Nato Land Rovers crawl like giant beetles past the perimeter of the new US embassy.

This could fund a "carbon army" of local employees to crawl like ants over its entire housing stock, making it energy tight, warmer and cheaper to heat.

My vision crawls like an ant over the surfaces.

He describes saturated fat as "crawling like Vietcong through the tunnels of our arteries".

The dancer crawls like a wind-up toy, twitchy and unpredictable, his face creepily blank.

"An omnibus across the bridge/ Crawls like a yellow butterfly", go the opening lines.

— and a goatee that on this occasion crawled like a spider plant to a destination below his chin.