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After his aborted attempt to reach the platform onto which his nephew had climbed, Callahan crawled to the back of the "turtled" boat, where he sat on the upturned outboard, wrapped his arms around the engine's lower unit and held on under an unceasing assault of drenching, slamming waves.

chron.com Chronicle 2009

An Aragon defender came up to make the play, but ducked down, "turtled," in trying to take out Walter's legs.

unknown title 2009

By the time Carmen announced brunch was ready, Julian had gone completely silent and glazed over—turtled, Brooke always called it—and Cynthia looked rumpled and exhausted in her polyester pantsuit.

Last Night at Chateau Marmont Lauren Weisberger 2010

Rapp turtled, dropping behind a nice piece of German steel.

American Assassin Vince Flynn 2010

We have a much bigger problem here: a hollow man, a creature without personality, only a mask upon mask upon mask turtled all the way down to … nothing.

Looking back at Obama the narcissist 2010

Red-cheeked boys dribbled out of the main glass doors, their enormous hockey bags turtled onto their backs.

Handle with Care JODI PICOULT 2009

Faced with more fixtures, the league turtled up and decided to mail it in.

MLS loses in Mexico; Pope still catholic Duane Rollins 2009

Leben followed up with several big shots, Sakara turtled up, and Leben landed several more unanswered shots before Herb Dean stepped in to stop the fight.

UFC 82: Review & Recap « the j. botter weblog 2008

That it can taper is a good sign against the idea of "addiction" and looking back I wouldn't use the word addiction because while habitual the times could be constrained and periods of excessive play were correlated to other personal events...just as likely I would have sort of "turtled" out of worldly stresses reading a novel etc but..

A Virtual World Winter? 2007

Crystal gave directions while my mom turtled along like the whole thing was a trap.

The Worst Years of Your Life Mark Jude Poirier 2007