I crawled to the telephone on the night table by the bed.

And as time crawls by I feel my confidence returning, a little.

Infants are able to crawl by the time they are one to two days old.

He crawled to the wall by the door, kneeling there in the mud and blood.

He crawled a little nearer to the figures by the statue.

And then the reading glasses crawled onto the pile of newspapers by the side door.

"We'll get up if we have to crawl by inches."

He crawled by inches around the boulder, on guard against making any sound.

"I was able to crawl by them to the back bedroom," he said.

After all, a dead rat could not crawl away by itself.