The energy level crawled upward, stabilized well below the ready line.

She stared at the stones, her heart crawling upward in her chest.

Harold began to crawl upward, dragging his shattered leg behind him.

When morning came he began to crawl upward again nevertheless, sweating and racked with pain.

Crawling upward along the trail that led to it he could see tiny specks of men.

It seemed to crawl upward like a hand of the night.

The pressure gauge over the lock door showed one atmosphere; now it started to crawl upward.

Since October 1998, mortgage rates have been crawling upward - now an average of about half a percentage point higher nationally.

At 5 months, he started crawling with his palms upward.

Deadly, pregnant with enemies, the horse Crawled upward to the breach.