How to Use android in a Sentence

android

noun
  • But his plan goes horribly wrong when the android tries to kill the Avengers.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The book follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter on a mission to kill a group of rogue androids.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 26 June 2023
  • Users have the option to search via the Instant Checkmate app for android.
    Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The writing tends to be stylized and stilted, which works for the android leads but leaves the humans more flat.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The zany horror film is as self-aware as the sentient android at its center.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a lot more to Westworld’s appeal than just androids.
    Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Because Mika is very attached to Yang, Jake doesn’t want to trade in the android and hopes to find a way to repair him.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The story starts forthrightly in a club where Alma (Maren Eggert) meets her android for the first time.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The head and torso of the android, which is powered by a steam engine, takes the form of a Black man pulling a cart, a replacement for a draft horse.
    Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 18 Feb. 2022
  • One character in the movie is Arthur, an android bartender played by Michael Sheen.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
  • By the end of the performance, however, our android does have needs.
    Miriam Katz, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • It’s all well and good for an android to take a position and shut down motor functions.
    Tade Thompson, Wired, 18 Dec. 2020
  • So was Dolores the one who remade Arnold into android Bernard?
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018
  • The androids, or hosts, are marginally less corrupt, but Dolores is coming to terms with her own dark side.
    Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • For better or worse, so much of cyberpunk's android dreams have come true.
    Madeline Ashby, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
  • On HBO’s Westworld, female androids gain sentience and aim their guns at the humans who abused them.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 31 May 2018
  • At the end of the episode, Picard and his compatriots activate this new android and get to speak to Data again for the first time in decades.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the book, the main character falls in love with an android that only pretends to requite his feelings.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The new season picks up in the aftermath of the android host rebellion and escape from the Wild West theme park into the real world.
    James Hibberd, EW.com, 20 July 2019
  • But this new Blade Runner is lacking the ineffable thing that a self-aware android might crave most: a soul.
    Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The release came in time for the android that goes by the name Ai-Da to showcase work, alongside human artists, at a show opening Thursday at the pyramids of Giza.
    Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2021
  • The series will center on a pair of androids who are raising human children.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The film will be set in a futuristic world where humans and androids fight shoulder to shoulder.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Ha’s only companions are Evrim, the world’s first self-aware android and a cyborg soldier.
    Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022
  • One boxed with an android in a back-alley ring, while onlookers crowded around.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 13 June 2018
  • Stories tied him to the android via ionic energy and brainwaves that implied the two were akin to brothers.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2022
  • The story—more like a vignette—involved an android named André coming to life in a forest.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Season 2 theory: From the looks of the trailer, Dolores will lead the android uprising.
    Ashley Hoffman, Time, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Based on the television series of the same name, the narrative follows a young girl who dreams of playing football in a world that’s been overrun by androids.
    Holly Jones, Variety, 3 Nov. 2023
  • And Haley Joel Osment is just terrific as the android who, like Pinocchio before him, longs to be a real boy.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 14 Dec. 2021

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