Sentence examples for worm crawl from inspiring English sources

That blended approach helps to guide researchers at the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, where the "Superbot" can configure itself to squirm like a worm, crawl like a turtle, roll like a tire and more.

(Although I could swear I saw a worm crawl out of his shirtsleeve just before I turned on the tape recorder).

For example, if you are a nematode worm crawling through the soil, you may get stuck in a sticky web.

As a worm crawls or burrows, a group of segments shorten and widen, their total volume remaining the same; contact with the ground is maintained by projection of bristlelike structures from the cuticle (setae).

As the worm crawls, the thickened zones appear to travel backward along the body, because the segments just behind each zone thicken, widen, and cling to the ground, while the segments at the front end of each wide zone free themselves from the ground and become longer and narrower.

"People have used machine learning algorithms to partly analyze how a fruit fly flies, and how a worm crawls, but this is the first systematic description of an animal's behavior," said Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University.

I stopped and was standing very still and silent when this worm crawled out of the earth and traveled across my foot before disappearing into the grass.

For Deb, it occurred when a worm crawled over her foot: "I was barefoot and had been walking slowly in meditation across the lawn.

Worms crawl sickeningly out of a gaping mouth.

Re "The Worms Crawl In" (July 1): Dr. David Pritchard is trying to treat patients with autoimmune diseases by inoculating them with hookworms.

Poetry begins with elegy, in extremity, as Gilgamesh laments the death of his companion Enkidu, watching worms crawl out of Enkidu's neck.