crawler

Example Sentences

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Traveling at a top speed of just 0.82 mph, the crawler moved the massive Moon rocket steadily toward the launch pad.

From Science Daily • Jan. 19, 2026

When the crew of the colonization mission discover that their new home, an ice planet called Niflheim, is inhabited by armadillo-like crawler creatures, they wonder what to do about this unanticipated roadblock in their efforts.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025

Not another cooking game, but instead a new take on a dungeon crawler where you can team up with your friends to survive in a twisted reality show competition.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2024

When Supergiant Games was wrapping up Hades, a mythologically rich hack-and-slash dungeon crawler it had spent more than three years developing, the studio concluded it was not quite done.

From New York Times • May 13, 2024

“A crawler can live a month with no food if it has water. And don’t bother feeding Gox. Treflex will hold her for longer than our journey will last.”

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins