How to Use crawler in a Sentence

crawler

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  • Spooky fun in the garden at this family-friendly party with crafts, story time, pumpkin science and creepy crawlers.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The gecko grips the snake's head in its mouth, and the serpent wraps its body around the crawler.
    — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The pub crawlers must pay for their drinks and food at each venue.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
  • The best way to control the insect is in the crawler stage when the scale first hatch.
    — oregonlive, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Nightcrawlers: Lots of fish love a crawler, but few more than walleyes do.
    — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 20 June 2024
  • Cohen said the real concerns are the live crawlers, not the nits.
    — Max Cohen, USA TODAY, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Boaters have had success trolling with pop gear and crawlers.
    — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 2 May 2017
  • The creepy crawler appears to be spinning a web that continues from the tail of the bat.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023
  • The top baits are red worms, pieces of night-crawler, maggots or waxworms.
    — cleveland, 9 July 2020
  • On the lower end of the lake, wiggle warts and rock crawler still working on rocky banks.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • When a scale egg hatches, Gill said, the insect goes to a crawler stage and seeks out new growth on the tree for food.
    — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • We were transferred next to a British crawler, which took us all the way to Ramsgate, England.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Lucky Strike will host a Night Full of Fear after-party for pub crawlers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2018
  • Your little car lover will have a blast all over the playground with this RC crawler that's great on grass, sand, and dirt.
    — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Tie your hair back and let a diamante fringe ear crawler do the talking for just under $40.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 10 Dec. 2019
  • Finally, it was taken in the light of day, and Weegee was a nighttime street crawler.
    — Ben Yagoda, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • For now, Greig just hopes to test a smaller demonstration version of the crawler in a few years.
    — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Bar crawlers need to purchase tickets for the event online.
    — Charles Infosino, The Enquirer, 13 July 2024
  • The bluegills are hitting on night crawlers under a bobber.
    — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 11 June 2017
  • Riding atop crawler-transporter 2, the trip took about nine hours with speeds that topped out at less than 1 mph.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Nov. 2022
  • An 11-story crane will lift the tail of Endeavour, while a 40-story crawler crane — about the height of City Hall — will lift the nose.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2024
  • They were carried to the launch pad by a legendary machine aptly called a crawler.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • The crawler rolled out to pad 39B Wednesday, beginning the eight-hour, four-mile journey.
    — Chabeli Herrera, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2019
  • Since the rock crawler runs on propane, neighbors and friends donated tanks from their grills to keep the rides going.
    — Lindsay Peyton, Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
  • But, as the orange accents throughout hint, this is no mall-crawler Porsche SUV.
    — Brendan McAleer, Car and Driver, 7 Feb. 2023
  • If cloudy and windy, crank bait bite is working along chunk rock banks with wiggle warts, rock crawler, etc. - keep the boat in 8-10 feet.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Shultz remembers one instance where a turtle passed in front of the crawler.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2022
  • My sister had seen a crawler on her TV in Atlanta that said a plane had hit the Pentagon.
    — Rachel Epstein, Marie Claire, 1 Sep. 2021
  • The cold reception reflects a significant shift in both the perception and use of the robotic crawlers that have trawled the web for decades.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Everyone huddled in the ship’s dry lab watches rapt as the crawler bumps up against a vaguely rectangular object the size of a bar fridge.
    — Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024

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