Sentence examples for have been crawling from inspiring English sources

Weren't they supposed to have been crawling and whirring all over the place by now?

The negotiations started in 2001 and have been crawling along ever since, with meetings around the world and deadlines constantly being missed.

Luc Jones, senior manager of Antal International, a recruiting firm, says that a decade ago his company would have been "crawling over broken glass" to find an expat finance manager with a smattering of Russian.

RAYMOND MEEKS For a show titled "Topsoil," Meeks photographed freshly turned earth from an angle so low that he might have been crawling on the ground among the stones and plowed-under corn.

In that show, it was revealed that space bugs — gross little insects hatched from an asteroid — have been crawling into our ears, eating our brains, and turning us into hyper-partisan zombies bent on self-destructive political warfare.

Similarly, in Colorado, police officers and firefighters in rural communities often scrub down young children who have been crawling on the floor in houses where their parents have been cooking methamphetamine, said Susan Dreisbach, a research anthropologist at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Besides a strong crawler overall, Botify can also detect which pages on a site have been crawled by Google.

All the information that has come out about Abdulmutallab since the incident - the posts that he made to the Islamic Forum Website, the events he ran as president of the Islamic Students Association - should have been crawled by Homeland Security and made part of his digital file.

Someone later asked why he had been crawling around.

Hélène is soaked in blood and has been crawling through the dust.

The regeneration of the Elephant, including the demolition and replacement of the Heygate, has been crawling through its planning phases.