Crablike

A created race, crablike, used in Cliff's evolutionary intelligence experiments. ❋ Blue Tyson (2010)

I tottered down the aisle sideways, crablike, trying not to bump the bags against the seats. ❋ J.F. Lewis (2011)

I took an enormous step backward, too fast, and I stumbled, my hands crablike behind me, gripping tufts of spring grass. ❋ Kelly Simmons (2011)

The crablike Prador are bloodthirsty aliens bent on crushing the Polity and stealing its runcible technology ... and they possess a frightening superiority in space warfare. ❋ Mark (2008)

One twice his size with crablike claws, eight legs, and a shiny black exoskeleton. ❋ Joan Holub (2010)

There was a sort of furrow in it that gave purchase to his hands and feet, and Kellen used it to pull himself up to where the incline was less steep and he could actually move forward in a sort of crablike crouch over the pale stone. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

With her new thick crablike appendages, Muthr grasped her headless original body and raised it. ❋ Tony DiTerlizzi (2010)

With her crablike body the robot closed in on Rovender. ❋ Tony DiTerlizzi (2010)

While being held captive by crablike aliens aboard a semi-organic spaceship, a homeless drifter whose living brain has been removed and attached to an electronic machine must make the ultimate sacrifice to save a friend's life. ❋ Ewillett (2008)

It would tell her how to place the crablike feet for safety and speed, how to search recesses of the barren land for little wisps of sustenance or water. ❋ George R. R. Martin (2010)

At the business end of that tentacle beast is a horse-headed monster made of water, with a half-dozen or more crablike claws that slam down on Kratos. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One sleeve was down, and the other up, his crablike fingers scrambling over the cotton. ❋ Emily Schultz (2010)

Giant, crablike thingies attacking me; macho bluster from my teammates, mid-holocaust; longing glances stolen with a woman I may or may not love? ❋ Unknown (2009)