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

Despite being a dungeon crawler, the series has an unusually explicit focus on food.

From Salon • Jul. 22, 2024

Or, maybe, the featured Google snippet will tell you that eggs can melt, thanks to a nonsense Quora answer caught in the search crawler.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2024

The family called drainage firm Clearaway to ask if it could help and the team used a crawler camera, which is normally used to inspect pipes for cracks, to find the dog.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2022

There was also the problem of them putting the odd item they found in the dust into their mouths; I saved the lives of a couple of beetles and a disoriented night crawler that way.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly