With her crablike body the robot closed in on Rovender. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For WondLa] Reference
"This deer was walking sideways, crablike," Folker explained. From Wordnik.com. [News: Alabama Hunter Bags Two-Headed Deer] Reference
Koten extended the blade and moved forward in quick crablike steps. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
He was a small, wiry man with rounded shoulders and a crablike walk. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Charming Man]
Both men whirled, and there it was: a disjointed, chitinous, crablike hulk. From Wordnik.com. [The Dig]
He was followed by a slightly shorter man who approached with a crablike gait. From Wordnik.com. [Amaryllis] Reference
A created race, crablike, used in Cliff's evolutionary intelligence experiments. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-06-01] Reference
Here he came, moving in an odd crablike fashion like Quasimodo on his way up to his bells. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned Hopes]
The Lebeds immediately turned crablike and sped back to sea to pick up yet more infantrymen. From Wordnik.com. [Red Storm Rising]
In this way, they are able to endure, approaching their tasks in a makeshift, crablike fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Windowers] Reference
With her new thick crablike appendages, Muthr grasped her headless original body and raised it. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For WondLa] Reference
Working with Irobot (see p. 94), Full developed a crablike machine that walks on land and underwater. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Robots Destined to Change Your Life | Impact Lab] Reference
Then, crablike, Ryer Ord Star backed slowly away from the sweeper, her head bent and her body slumped. From Wordnik.com. [Antrax]
There was a whole shelf dedicated to these videos labeled with his crablike scrawl, Mijn Vrouw 1,2,3. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
With concen'trated effort Ariakas propelled himself into flight, scram-bling crablike to avoid the sword. From Wordnik.com. [Emperor of Ansalon]
My path has always been sideways and crablike and weird and extremely solitary and not altogether healthy. From Wordnik.com. [FEATURED POET: REBECCA LOUDON] Reference
Around him he sees the ten big crablike tanks and the ARVN troops who were always so adept at running away. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers of Misfortune] Reference
The Land Cruiser dug in again with all four locked wheels and hauled itself crablike up the slope to the summit. From Wordnik.com. [A Winter Haunting]
She found but one fierce little crablike thing no bigger than a pinhead living solitary inside the dried blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
Bink flipped a clod of mud into the water, and it was intercepted, just before it struck, by a giant crablike claw. From Wordnik.com. [A Spell For Chameleon]
H.G. Wells in The Time Machine explores this scenario briefly, imagining a bleak future inhabited by crablike creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Kew Gardens - the novel] Reference
He hovered in indecision in bay four, and with curiosity overcoming caution, made a crablike traverse over to Buckram's box. From Wordnik.com. [Bonecrack]
As it was, he swung limplyfor a moment before skittering, crablike, away as I silently brandished KitKats, Goobersand Nerds. From Wordnik.com. [how-to: coolest jack o’lantern ever! « raincoaster] Reference
'Deadly!' said The Gurrier, scurrying over with his crablike gait. From Wordnik.com. [Tales Of The Gurrier] Reference
Then they were running for their lives with one of the crablike all-purpose jobs after them. From Wordnik.com. [The Cosmic Computer] Reference
A touch of sulkiness, left by his late down-putting, affected his gait, which was more crablike than usual. From Wordnik.com. [Pirate Gold] Reference
Given Brown's denial about the past, the Labour Party can only adopt, at best, a crablike posture towards the crisis. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
The better sort of men are given to these crablike ways of appearing to move away from what they intend to move towards. From Wordnik.com. [The Best British Short Stories of 1922] Reference
There is a great deal of embarrassment now and a crablike movement to the exits and face saving is now the order of the day. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Here’s one example that exemplifies both the insight and the crablike movement of Mr. Davis’ prose. From Wordnik.com. [Gentrify or Perish] Reference
He would like to fall over but he can’t do that either, because a dozen hands are toppling him crablike down the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
It walked with a curious, crablike motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
A crablike creature filled the entire frame. From Wordnik.com. [Rama Revisited]
The oncoming crablike robots scurried faster. From Wordnik.com. [The Norby Chronicles]
AMENDMENT, a crablike, 375. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
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