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Example sentences for "crawly"

Lexicographically close words:
crawled; crawler; crawlers; crawling; crawls; craws; crayfish; crayfishes; crayon; crayons
  1. I like the butterflies, but I don't like those creepy, crawly things from which they come.

  2. I wouldn't handle the worms, and creepy, crawly things that Bee Raymond does for anything.

  3. The room was filled with creepy, crawly things.

  4. Was the cellar all horrid with old papers and rats and mice and spiders and crawly things with legs?

  5. His walk to the factory lay for a short distance along a pretty little park where, when the weather was proper, squirrels and babies and numerous other smaller, crawly things were wont to mingle together in democratic unconcern.

  6. It meant cramped fingers, and hot dry eyes, and a back that ached when it didn't feel crawly with infinitesimal bugs, and bugs that bumped and buzzed and then fell sprawling across one's paper.

  7. But it's hard to think good of bees and nasty crawly things," she confessed.

  8. But there's men that is nasty and crawly things," he argued.

  9. Four pegs and four imaginary lines, a deal of grass with a substrata of crawly things.

  10. That's a dandy shack, full of ants and crawly things, and its roof leaks water.

  11. Creepy-Crawly had been eating hard for weeks, but now he began to feel less and less hungry and more and more drowsy.

  12. Creepy-Crawly woke up at last, but he was Creepy-Crawly no longer.

  13. Creepy-Crawly looked wistfully at her as she flew off.

  14. Creepy-Crawly wriggled quickly out of the beetle's sight, and a Butterfly who saw him laughed.

  15. But if the rabbit had only known who it was he was following he wouldn't have been so happy, for it was a crawly snake, and that snake was only fooling Uncle Wiggily, and trying to get him off to his den so he could eat him.

  16. So the rabbit did this, and his breath came back and he was all right again, but he made up his mind never to try to tickle a crawly thing again until he was sure it wasn't a snake.

  17. For there was a big, fat, crawly snake on the ground moving toward the basket of jam tarts.

  18. And then, just as the snake was going to eat the tarts Jumpo threw the sharp burr at the wiggly, crawly creature.

  19. He made a grab for the basket and ran off with it before the snake had finished sneezing and laughing and coughing, and so the crawly creature couldn't catch him.

  20. There were three creepy-crawly people hiding in the plate-rack.

  21. Crawly is a villain," said the general hurriedly; "he has made a fortune out of you, and now wishes to back out.

  22. I wonder if this was the reason why Mr Crawly suggested to Lord Railton the propriety of grinding Mr Sinclair down to as small a sum as possible.

  23. If Lord Railton fed Mr Crawly now, Rupert Sinclair was expected to feed by and by Crawly's son and heir, who was preparing himself for the paternal stool by a short round of folly and extravagance at the university.

  24. Crawly is impatient and angry, and accuses me of having used him ill.

  25. Crawly beckoned to Sinclair, who at once quitted my side and walked over to him, whilst I was left in possession of Mrs Crawly and the hopeful.

  26. Mr Crawly came up at this moment, with his lady upon his arm, and Crawly, junior, lounging in his immediate rear.

  27. And wouldn't you rather carry nuts in your pockets for such nice little girls as me, than crawly things inside your smock to bite you?

  28. That was the very one of all the Natural History books with the blue bindings that she liked best, it was so delightfully crawly and sent such funny little thrills all through her.

  29. You remember: "It was crawly and it stunk.

  30. At that, you can't blame it for being crawly and stinking if it had been anywhere near the Boche.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crawly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    creepy; eerie; prickly; scary