Crouched Sentence Examples

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  • After he left, she went to her room and crouched beside the bed to pray.

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  • Dark brows crouched over equally dark eyes.

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  • I crouched down in the fork of the tree.

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  • Jackson crouched in front of her to meet her gaze.

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  • Suddenly a flash of lightening illuminat­ed the crouched figure of Cynthia Byrne several yards away.

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  • She crouched beside him.

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  • The beast crouched, and she ran harder.

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  • Gabriel crouched near the edge of the lake.

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  • The train crouched silent on the tracks in a feline pose, as if hovering over a kill.

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  • Thick brown brows crouched over darkening eyes.

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  • When you move while crouched, enemies will not be able to hear you.

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  • Xander crouched over her body, one knee in the center of her chest to keep her in place.

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  • Her blurred vision fell to the corner, where a creature with glowing emerald eyes crouched.

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  • The assassin shook his head and crouched near her, warming his hands by the fire.

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  • Ten minutes of walking later, she crouched beneath the lowest branch of a massive pine tree and inched her way to the scene.

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  • She twisted, one knife drawn before she recognized Darian's dark shape crouched over her feet.

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  • Damian crouched in front of her, his hand on her stomach.

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  • She crouched, catching sight of a guardsman several hundred feet away.

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  • Abraham sniffed the still air, then crouched beside tall grass stems.

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  • Puzzled, restless, he returned and crouched beside Logan Myers.

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  • Two Mountain Rescue volunteers descended with remarkable agility to where he crouched, waving his light as a beacon.

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  • The next morning, she leaned against the wall and stared at the dark form crouched on a rock a good distance from the Sanctuary.

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  • Some bodies were laid out straight, some crouched; some in stone cists, others in hollows in the rubble.

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  • Nicholas was pressing hard against Jonathon, who was still crouched facing the fire.

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  • She, crouched beside him, eyes still dilated with the awful fear of death, looked back, breathless, trembling.

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  • She crouched on the window sill and hopped down onto her hands and did a handspring.

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  • Stephen had put a little monorail down the center of the tunnel and you rode through to Chequers crouched on something like a skateboard.

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  • A quarter mile away, dimly lit, the huge modern grandstand crouched like a giant sentinel, commanding a view of miles.

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  • At such times he lies crouched upon his belly in a thicket until the animal approaches sufficiently near, when, with one prodigious bound, he pounces upon it.

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  • Meanwhile, up in the belfry, Dickie was crouched under the bells, setting up his ancient reel-to-reel tape recorder.

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  • Standing tall, his stocky figure crouched attentively over his acoustic guitar.

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  • Dugarry crouched to the goalkeeper, half congratulating him, half strangling him in despair at what looked a certain goal.

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  • Five men, dressed in tattered clothes, were crouched about a bundle of red rags on the floor.

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  • Ragged men crouched in doorways held out their tweed caps.

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  • If you see a cat that is crouched low to the ground with his rear end wiggling, chances are he is getting ready to pounce.

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  • Cover yourself with padding such as a pile of blankets or a mattress and face the floor in a crouched position.

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  • Also known as a Baby Swipe, breakdancing choreography for the two step involves hopping with a crouched leg while taking your other (straightened) leg and swinging it around.

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  • When they stopped beside a wide shallow creek, he crouched with his back to her.

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  • Suddenly the beam caught a figure crouched ahead.

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  • The speaker crouched, a muscular man with liquid silver eyes.

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  • The demon crouched in the door, then roared in pain and whirled.

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  • He crouched beside her, his cold smile filling her with a fear unlike any she'd felt before.

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  • She trotted through the square until she found it and crouched beside it to see names at the very bottom, the names of the nobles' servants.

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  • He seemed unaware of the vital importance of the moment, crouched shivering over a bivouac fire, and finally rode back to Dresden, leaving no specific orders for the further pursuit.

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  • One significant find was of a crouched child burial in a small grave cut.

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  • At first King Frost was very angry, and the fairies trembled and crouched lower in their hiding-places, and I do not know what might have happened to them if just then a party of boys and girls had not entered the wood.

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  • The wolf crouched, gnashed her teeth, and again rose and bounded forward, followed at the distance of a couple of feet by all the borzois, who did not get any closer to her.

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  • Sarah crouched to the floor and timidly put her hand into Elisabeth's fur.

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  • Crouched astride a bike was a great place to think and he surely needed training with his July week in Iowa getting closer all the time.

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  • He made his way to the rocky area near the hideout then crouched on the ground, watching.

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  • Jonny crouched beside her.

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  • Eden crouched beside him and touched Jessi's forehead.

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  • Nicholas and his attendant, with "Uncle" and his huntsman, were all riding round the wolf, crying "ulyulyu!" shouting and preparing to dismount each moment that the wolf crouched back, and starting forward again every time she shook herself and moved toward the wood where she would be safe.

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  • He crouched next to the circle Jenn had drawn around the portal.

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  • Jade stopped and crouched, all but flinging Iliana.s body down.

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  • While the night's events were still a bit hazy, her memory was clear enough to feel gratitude towards the man crouched beside her.

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  • He slid in behind another biker and followed the crouched figure evenly, absentmindedly match­ing the rider stride for stride for several miles as he pondered his course of action.

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  • Too aware of him, she tensed as he crouched beside her, the scent too potent to be a dream.

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  • Darian crouched beside his brother, studying him while emotions flew across his features.

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  • Unsettled at her unusual weakness, she watched Sami's squat form fold with difficulty as he crouched beside her.

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  • Two mountain rescue volunteers descended with remarkable agility to where he crouched.

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  • An instant later the Tiger crouched and launched its huge body through the air swift and resistless as a ball from a cannon.

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