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craw

[ US /ˈkɹɔ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɔː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

How To Use craw In A Sentence

  • “‘Now, gentlemen, standing up here before you, I feel a good deal like Pat, and maybe after I’ve spieled along for a while, I may feel so darn small that I’ll be able to crawl into a Pullman hammock with no trouble at all, at all! Chapter 14
  • He was a scrawny Barbary Macaque with matted, clumpy hair. BETTER LESSONS • by Aaron Polson
  • The name krill derives from ‘kril’, an Old Norwegian word once applied to tiny creepy-crawly things, vermin, and larval fish.
  • Turning downriver, she kept the revs low, Night Watch just noodling along at a crawl. CORMORANT
  • Mack and I dove on the ground and began to crawl forward.
  • Our reaction to a tickling sensation may have arisen from a defence against creepy-crawlies. Times, Sunday Times
  • We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house. Greenmantle
  • Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
  • Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
  • Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
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