Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: crouching
IPA transcription: [kɹ'aʊtʃɪŋ]
Pronunciations of crouching
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Usage examples
  • "Never!" she answered, crouching low at my feet.
  • Crouching low to the marshy ground, he listened to the wailing voice.
  • He stopped in this crouching attitude when I turned, his eyes a little averted.
  • Tom could see Marjorie crouching, riding to his gait, holding him down for the jump.
  • As Philip approached the hotel he saw what appeared to be a wild beast crouching on the piazza.
  • The raw animal crouching within him is like the earthquake monster pent in the crust of the earth.
  • Grace looked all about the room and then closed the door, not seeing a little figure crouching in a shadowy corner.
  • Instead of mingling with his tribe, however, he sat apart, a solitary being in a multitude, his form shrinking into a crouching and abject attitude, as if anxious to fill as little space as possible.
  • When at last we reached the door and peeped through we found him crouching at the window, candle in hand, his white, intent face pressed against the pane, exactly as I had seen him two nights before.
  • A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean was crouching over Marius.
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