crouch

Only when he got to his vehicle did Mr Deakin realise that someone was crouched down behind him.

With the Trump administration slashing budgets and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits, some Southern California social justice organizations have gone into a defensive crouch, hoping to wait out the passing storm.

And each person here has been buried with painstaking care, some laid flat, others crouching, all facing from east to west.

I was crouching in a hole; the dig’s director spotted the dark soil from up above.

He would crouch on the floor and put his face as close to the base of the doorway as he could, to get some air.