How to Use automaton in a Sentence

automaton

noun

• People work and fight increasingly like automatons, [rather] than on motivation.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• The automatons even shake and stir the drink before pouring into the glass, which is then pushed through a slot at the end of the bar.
  — Andrew Craft, Fox News, 7 July 2017
• And — reading on — the flutes made of bone, the zoos, the purple dye made from snails, the roulette, the automatons of digesting and defecating ducks, and Minecraft.
  — Virginia Heffernan, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
• And stocks always glitch—to the delight of those bond-buying automatons.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
• In a world of cookie-cutter pop-music stars and automatons, Sinéad O’Connor was a one-off.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2023
• The Flute Player was a sort of pre-robot called an automaton.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• At the time, the idea of an automaton being used to commit crime was a novelty.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 12 June 2017
• This is not to say that the men Trump pardoned in November were victims or automatons.
  — Gil Barndollar, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2019
• That is not to say that periodization wants to produce teams of automatons.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• To show that young North Koreans are not brainwashed automatons and are not just victims.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2017
• This two-armed automaton did not recognize any of this stuff, but that did not matter.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• Civilian kitchens aren’t equipped with machines that have automaton-like limbs to bring together a dough.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2019
• The automaton dances in dainty circles to the rhythm of a drip algorithm as hot water trickles into the filter.
  — NBC News, 20 May 2020
• Look out, too, for a reproduction of an 18th-century automaton in the form of a life-size turbaned figure sitting at a chess board.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2020
• The equities side of Wall Street, including me, always writes off bond investors as automatons.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2019
• Our attachment to these automatons is all the more remarkable because they weren’t designed to forge human connections; they were built to do a job.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 30 Apr. 2020
• Most people, though, thought that Maelzel’s chess player was a fake—not a thinking machine at all, but a simple automaton controlled by a human.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• Take, for example, one of the most extraordinary of all Greek myths, the story of the giant bronze automaton Talos.
  — Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• Blitz, a Parisian automaton from 1850 and a family heirloom.
  — E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 7 July 2021
• Chomsky defined levels of a hierarchy and the automatons that can handle the grammars for each level.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2020
• The most advanced engineering in the world was devoted to these automata in the 18th century.
  — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2016
• Little automatons toured the country—dolls controlled by clockwork.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 8 Apr. 2022
• The 20-inch-tall model of our solar system follows a centuries-long tradition of exquisite automatons that inject awe into the daily lives of a lucky few.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 3 July 2023
• The game is set in a kind of computational universe called a cellular automaton.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• But even if a treacherous automaton had wormed its way into that position, a human would have to program, monitor and maintain the thing.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 14 Feb. 2020
• But such techniques never overwhelm the sheer presence of the actors, whose vitality seems amplified by the imposing automatons on either side of the stage.
  — New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• The automatons are also in charge of moving supplies around, and those that have to enter areas with humans are outfitted with sensors that keep them from causing collisions.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2023
• In recent years, he’s lightened up a bit, stopped speaking with that automaton confidence, and even hinted at retirement.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2018
• The purpose of bureaucracy is to turn people into automatons.
  — Robert Zubrin, National Review, 18 Sep. 2019
• But its protagonist is a machine: an automaton of a tiger attacking a British soldier, built by an Indian artisan in the late 1700s.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024