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crawling

/ ˈɔːɪŋ /

noun

  1. a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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It's pitch black and we're crawling along a secret underground tunnel beneath a high street in Hull.

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One described the terror of being woken by a man crawling across her bedroom floor and threatening to kill her.

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When Spike turns 12, Jamie takes him to the mainland, where the infected roam freely — some gluttonous and crawling; others fast-moving and strong — to learn how to hunt and gather to provide for the island.

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Bathers are an artistic signal for life crawling onto shore out of the primordial ooze or basking in a pastoral, prelapsarian paradise.

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It’s killer, it’s campy and it’s crawling with sharks; check, check, check.

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