fetal position
foetal position BrE

It was as if he wanted to roll up into the foetal position.

Another time she found him curled up in a foetal position.

I think I was in the foetal position for half an hour.

Unconscious, she crumpled to the floor, in the foetal position.

"One of them sat with his feet stretched out and the other curled up in the foetal position."

She rolled herself into a foetal position, more for warmth than anything else, and closed her eyes.

He was lying in a foetal position, still asleep at the other end of the carriage.

The bodies were found in foetal positions lying on their left sides.

His years of psychological training abruptly said to him: You are in a tight foetal position.

Jack crawled under the jeep and assumed the foetal position.

I took the hood off her and put her back in the foetal position.

I lay here for 12 hours in the foetal position with an excruciating headache.

He wanted to pull off the road, lie down, curl into the foetal position, and go to sleep for a few hours.

He was in as near a foetal position as you can assume sitting up.

After a minute he realized the corpse was curled up in foetal position.

He groaned, closed his eyes, sank back and retreated into the foetal position.

Jim, now in the foetal position, responded with a dismal groan.

Michael was caught by surprise and slumped to the floor in a foetal position, as if to protect himself from her further assault.

Laid to rest in the foetal position, they awaited their reincarnated life.

This was a body of an 18 year old male; he was found in the foetal position, lying on his right side.

Emily was curled up in a foetal position, naked, on the floor, sobbing.

When he returned Wilt had assumed a foetal position and was fast asleep.

She awoke hours later to find herself lying on her side, curled into a foetal position, shivering with the cold.

He stayed in his foetal position as the rats ate him, still half-alive.

He struggled painfully around into a new foetal position and started work on the back of the back seat.