Sentence examples for crabwise from inspiring English sources

Though clinging to a violent ideology, it has been groping crabwise towards an accommodation.

Hamas knows it cannot ignore that view.Moreover, it did start groping, albeit in a maddeningly crabwise manner, towards meeting those conditions.

The berg will then move crabwise in a northeasterly direction so that it can end up at relatively low latitudes and in relatively warm waters before disintegrating.

These numerous facts, conveyed in crabwise stops and starts, are mixed or minced in with a fictional family drama.

This moral is not new, nor is Grass's method of a crabwise narrative, revolving facts and incidents in a colloquial, sometimes humorous, somehow harried voice.

By 10th grade, I'd developed a Quasimodo-like posture and crabwise walk, hoping to escape being teased as a "brain" or a "chink," and then finding being ignored almost equally painful.

Inching crabwise through stacks of film reels, devising Band-Aids for failing equipment, hosting visiting directors and a stuffy radio show, Jorge faces declining audiences and finances with poignant stoicism.

Mr. Foy shoehorned the people companionably around the things, for one did not so much walk through his apartment as edge crabwise through its scant open spaces.

If reshuffles give you a unique chance to look into Tony's mind, to see the pressures that churn within him, then this shuffle seems peculiarly opaque, yet another crabwise effort to isolate, yet not confront, his chancellor.

Change, as ever, comes crabwise.

But for all his hawkishness over Vietnam he was adamant, too, that America's political ambitions were ultimately best pursued "crabwise", as he put it, through specific policies and programmes.