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.

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 Meanings and Examples of AUTOMATON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
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.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
3  The red automaton opposite lapsed into silence, nodded, and followed his example.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
4  Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
5  Then Jurgis felt his companion pulling, and he stepped in, and the blue automaton closed the door.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
6  Mr. St. John spoke almost like an automaton: himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  They move to their terrible end as automatons move.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
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.