AUTOMATON in a Sentence
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Example sentences for AUTOMATON, such as:
1. They move to their terrible end as automatons move.
2. The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example.
3. He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
4. Then Jurgis felt his companion pulling, and he stepped in, and the blue automaton closed the door.
2. The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example.
3. He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
4. Then Jurgis felt his companion pulling, and he stepped in, and the blue automaton closed the door.
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Meanings and Examples of AUTOMATON
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automaton
n. mechanism that imitates actions of humans
Classic Sentence:
1 He seemed a mere automaton, galvanized into moving and speaking by the wayward Eustacia's will.
2 He might have been an Arab, or an automaton; he would have been like a red sandstone statue but for the motion of his arm with the dice-box.
3 The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example.
4 Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.
5 Then Jurgis felt his companion pulling, and he stepped in, and the blue automaton closed the door.
6 Mr. St. John spoke almost like an automaton: himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse.
7 Aunt Bessie and Mrs. Bogart were at the window, and Carol saw that they were staring so intently that they answered her wave only with the stiffly raised hands of automatons.
8 They move to their terrible end as automatons move.
Example Sentence:
1 Long before science fiction readers became aware of robots, at this book writer was presenting a story of automaton who could outperform men.