"move" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The boat moved crabwise because of the current running through the narrows between' the island and the mainland.
- I moved crabwise along the wall until I was opposite the point, forty feet from the cliff, where she would touch ground.
- I got to my knees and in a crouch, moved crabwise thirty yards to the left.
- Then he swung himself round, face to the cliff, and started to move crabwise towards the chimney.
- He was well up into the cleft, moving crabwise, unwilling to turn his back on the Throg.
- He checked the second tile, stole a glance back over his shoulder at her, then moved crabwise to the right to try a third.
- I moved warily crabwise, over the edge.
- She seemed to be moving crabwise, as if she had lost too many oars on one side.
- Once she was making a couple of knots or more the rudder would get a bite on the water; until then she'd continue moving crabwise to leeward.
- He turned his back on the compartment and moved discreetly crabwise, pretending to look out of the dirty window.
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