How to Use bionic in a Sentence

bionic

adjective
  • The iPad Mini is the smallest tablet Apple makes, but the A15 bionic chip ensures its size doesn’t affect its skill.
    Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2024
  • Aidan took it in stride though, and now has a bionic humerus.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The first film co-stars mimes Shields and Yarnell, as a $600 bionic man and woman.
    David Petkiewicz, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
  • Giuffria can put on her bionic arm and shake your hand.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 June 2018
  • Her bionic hand makes use of fishing line to open and close her fingers with a flick of her wrist, the video says.
    Michael McGough, sacbee, 31 Mar. 2018
  • The bionic leg made a sort of squelching sound — a result of the gears and motors shifting.
    Sofia Jeremias, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
  • There is a high-tech bionic arm, a low-cost Jaipur Foot, and a series of humble zip ties.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Both shows ended in 1978, but the bionic theme endured.
    Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Now, Walgamott can use his thoughts to tell the fingers of his bionic hand to pick up eggs and grapes.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 July 2019
  • From there, all the scientists had to do was flash a light on their new bionic mushroom.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2018
  • In this study, there were seven people who had the surgery, and then this bionic device used with it.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 July 2024
  • The bionic feline can walk, stretch, play with toys, avoid obstacles and bite its nails.
    Kaya Yurieff and Samantha Murphy Kelly, CNN, 9 Jan. 2020
  • On the quest to create a true bionic limbJaguars in the night... Meet the man who has been recording nature for three decades.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2012
  • Once you’re done, the bionic hedgehog responds to sound commands.
    Time For Kids, Time, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Perhaps the most enthralling of the additions was the bionic menagerie of monkeys and giraffes that roamed the park daily.
    Megan Venzin, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • There aren't enough bionic men on the planet to produce a proper stereotype.
    Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2012
  • But driving one of these things is like wrestling a bionic octopus.
    Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2018
  • One way of doing so came from a partnership with Open Bionics, the creators of bionic limbs.
    Washington Post, 17 May 2021
  • Since beginning the use of the bionic arm in mid-2019, Karin has attested to an improved daily life.
    Sandra Rose Salathe, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Turns out trusting your trigger finger to a bionic arm isn’t such a great idea in the first of many bizarro jokes involving the scene-stealing limb.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Their device, which looks like a bionic pair of shorts, shifts the orientation of the wearer's pelvis when that wearer slips and begins to fall.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2017
  • The goal of current bionic research is to recover what was taken.
    Erik Sofge, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2012
  • Although bionic noses may still lie far in the future, Chong’s work still represents major progress for the field, Datta says.
    Grace Huckins, Wired, 25 June 2020
  • OnePlus’s bionic vision wasn’t the only big story happening in the tech world this week.
    Popular Science, 16 May 2020
  • For the upcoming season, each of the team’s linemen received bionic looking knee braces, which retail for $900 a pair.
    Laine Higgins, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
  • After recovery from surgery, the bionic hand is moved from its temporary position on the arm brace to the end of the candidate's wrist.
    Dan Robitzski, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
  • Perhaps the best part: This one only requires bodyweight to drive your hamstrings to bionic levels.
    Men's Health, 6 Jan. 2023
  • According to the Guardian’s Ploszajski, the scientists have been working on their bionic limb for around 15 years.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 26 July 2019
  • Polymer Between its stainless steel construction and solid brass fittings, this hose lived up to the bionic billing in our tests.
    Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Each bionic hand costs only a couple hundred dollars and takes about a week to make, according to UNLV.
    Rebecca Bratek, CBS News, 12 June 2018

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