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

Publishers could also try to protect their content from Google by forbidding its web crawler from sharing any content snippets from their sites.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 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

I nod frantically, like a bobble-head strapped to a rock crawler.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman