He no longer belongs to this world; he probably crouches day and night in a corner, repeating prayers he knows by heart, or reading in the holy books he has with him.
He has read the books he brought with him again and again, and he cares no more for them; he crouches in his corner and murmurs their contents, which he has long known by heart.
Again the faithful servant, endeavouring to appease her mistress's agitation, crouches upon the carpet, resting her head on the ottoman at Franconia's feet.
She crouches down on the blanket, as if shrinking from a deadly assault: "let me remain, even in my cell.
On a step a gnome totting among a rubbishtip crouches to shoulder a sack of rags and bones.
While she crouches there like a lioness in my path the chances are I shall never be chatelaine of Beaumanoir--never, until she is gone!
I am wicked, unutterably bad, worse and more despicable than the vilest creature that crouches under the bushes on the Batture!
That glares and crouches and rising then Hurls clods and curses at dogs and men.
The man who crouchesamong the trees From the stern-faced men who follow these.
With what reverence he crouches at his feet--with what reverence he looks up to him--with what delight he fawns upon him, and with what cheerful alacrity he obeys him!
Fatal slumbers, which he cannot shake off, steal upon him, and he crouchesunder some ledge and sleeps, to wake no more.
Then the little beggar, electric with fear to every hair tip, crouches and snarls menacingly and almost at the same time whimpers appeasingly at the storm-monster outside.
When they flap, he crouches down in terror and starts to run.
And it was the madman that is in us all that was propelling me, or was it the primitive man who crouches in some jungle of our being?
It is one of those autumn afternoons with just that touch of frost in the air which makes a fire welcome, and as he crouches in his arm-chair the warmth soothes the spirit and flesh, and in the doze of the flesh the spirit awakes.
Like a wild beast, itcrouches in ambush at his door, ready to spring and devour.
The great catcrouches with head low, extended throat, and ears erect.
Another man with exactly similar clothes and mask crouches near the front.
But I love the gentle sea, who in sweet humility crouches at my feet or playfully dashes her white spray against my brown bosom.
She uncovered herself to the lash as a brave houndcrouches to it; not from inborn cowardice, but simply from the habit of obedience and of endurance.
Britannia carries her trident and the lion crouches by her side.
She turns her face from him, and crouches down, hugging the knees of the priest!
She crouches down by the feet of the latter, places her ear close up to the instrument, and listens attentively.
He crouches over us, visible symbol of the majesty of the law, and we wilt to nothingness beneath him.
He crouches over us in such manner that we are all of us levelled one with another, shorn of aught that elsewhere differentiates us.
The armed hunter crouches behind the light, with the muzzle of his rifle projecting beyond the screen sufficiently to easily show the forward sight on the tip of the barrel.
A ski-jumper as he crouches for the spring keeps his foot flat on the ski and his centre of gravity over the middle of his foot, instead of over the toes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crouches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
