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Definition of Crawl in
1. Verb. Prepare for sleep. "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn"
Specialized synonyms: Bed Down, Bunk Down
Antonyms: Get Up, Turn Out
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crawl In
Literary usage of Crawl in
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
""Built snow house against fence, could crawl in at one door and out at other;
this was pleasant." F. "Built house by digging out room and putting chairs ..."
2. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1801)
"... to the deity are the v/orms that crawl in the duft ? ... What are the worms
that crawl in the duft ta him :" They are the creatures of his hand, ..."
3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1874)
"The one he has cherished here and who has filled his years with the sweets of
love, may to-morrow crawl in the slime at his feet, or glare at him from the ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1874)
"The one he has cherished here and who has filled his years with the sweets of
love, may to-morrow crawl in the slime at his feet, or glare at him from the ..."
5. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"I found, however, that when the worms were free to crawl in any direction after
traversing a path in %vhich they were illuminated from one side by diffuse ..."
6. Ten Years in Nevada, Or, Life on the Pacific Coast by Mary McNair Mathews (1880)
"I asked him how he dared to crawl in my window. He said he was drunk, or he would
not have done it. He said the ladies were his friends. He was very sorry, ..."
7. Italy in the Thirteenth Century by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1912)
"It happened that there was a gutter under the gate to carry away the rain-water;
and when the gate was shut there was just space for a man to crawl in on ..."
8. The Book of Athletics by Paul Withington, Lothrop Withington (1914)
"In Boston, seven thousand boys were taught the crawl in only a few weeks' time.
By the use of " water- wings " boys who had never swum a stroke learned the ..."
9. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1910)
""Built snow house against fence, could crawl in at one door and out at other;
this was pleasant." F. "Built house by digging out room and putting chairs ..."
10. The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review by John Henry Newman, James Shergold Boone (1801)
"... to the deity are the v/orms that crawl in the duft ? ... What are the worms
that crawl in the duft ta him :" They are the creatures of his hand, ..."
11. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1874)
"The one he has cherished here and who has filled his years with the sweets of
love, may to-morrow crawl in the slime at his feet, or glare at him from the ..."
12. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1874)
"The one he has cherished here and who has filled his years with the sweets of
love, may to-morrow crawl in the slime at his feet, or glare at him from the ..."
13. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"I found, however, that when the worms were free to crawl in any direction after
traversing a path in %vhich they were illuminated from one side by diffuse ..."
14. Ten Years in Nevada, Or, Life on the Pacific Coast by Mary McNair Mathews (1880)
"I asked him how he dared to crawl in my window. He said he was drunk, or he would
not have done it. He said the ladies were his friends. He was very sorry, ..."
15. Italy in the Thirteenth Century by Henry Dwight Sedgwick (1912)
"It happened that there was a gutter under the gate to carry away the rain-water;
and when the gate was shut there was just space for a man to crawl in on ..."
16. The Book of Athletics by Paul Withington, Lothrop Withington (1914)
"In Boston, seven thousand boys were taught the crawl in only a few weeks' time.
By the use of " water- wings " boys who had never swum a stroke learned the ..."
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