Sentence examples for crawling round from inspiring English sources

So we were crawling round on the floor, trying to find it.

"When we got to a certain age, he'd just take us out drinking with him," says Jazz. "We'd go pub crawling round all the little Spanish bars; he'd invite all our friends, too, and we'd just stay up all night.

Bragg is a master at summing up a situation with a pithy one-liner, such as the glorious "crawling round on all fours, I was looking for a lover or a just cause".

And one morning I woke up and the whole wall was covered in these caterpillars, making their way – well I don't know where they thought they were going… Wasn't your mother horrified at all these caterpillars crawling round your room?

Perhaps I'm biased, being an old woman, but I get the impression that the world is often surprised to find that we can do much at all, other than dodder around being forgetful, or do the odd bit of gardening, knitting, heating up soup or crawling round the block with a small dog.

In a couple of weeks he's going on a camping trip with his two grown-up sons, crawling round the Peak District for three days in whatever wet and cold an English winter can throw at them: "It's still in me to be basic and simple and straightforward," he says.

If the leaders continue to shake and crawl round this course, he could be within striking distance tomorrow!

There were other voices too: veteran cricket commentator John Arlott describing his friendship with Dylan Thomas and their pub crawls round north London, ending up at a Camden undertaker's.

When she locked him inside her flat, he attempted to crawl round her building on a ledge only to plunge 25 feet to the pavement, breaking bones in his foot.

At last, the clock crawls round to midday on Sunday and I set off back to the Vic, taking my seat, ordering tea, shaking my chips out of their zipped-up polythene bag and counting them through.

Anyone exposed to corporate training may find days calling radiators eggcups no stranger than being woken up at 4am to crawl round a muddy assault course, but ice-breakers and team games don't happen to freelancers.