| For two decades, his career movements were crablike, sidewise. |
| Then they were running for their lives with one of the crablike all-purpose jobs after them. |
| Rather than trying to hug the seafloor, crablike robots could punt along, relaxing and saving the precious energy in their batteries. |
| Abruptly, with a lightning velocity, these broadenings expanded into immense lunettes, two tremendous curving and crablike claws. |
| He obligingly left the music-stool and crept, crablike, along the ledge of the stage-box. |
| He was a crablike manoeuvrer, crafty and unreliable, domineering towards followers, ruthless towards rivals. |
