How to Use locomotion in a Sentence

locomotion

noun

• Walking is one form of locomotion.
• It’s the tortoise and the hare—two species that both evolved for locomotion: one for sprinting, the other for endurance.
  — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 23 Nov. 2020
• Murphy also points to the problem of BB-8's locomotion in the desert.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2018
• This is a tough cut of meat, coming from muscles around the bone that are used for locomotion and to hold the rib cage together.
  — Noelle Carter, sacbee, 15 Aug. 2017
• The program is designed to slowly ease you in to two-wheeled locomotion.
  — Chuck Tannert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
• Samsung The whole left and right sides would spin for locomotion, while the center camera portion was kept steady.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
• This threw a spanner in the works as far as the theory of human locomotion was concerned.
  — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2016
• In research centers around the world, roboticists have for decades been on a quest to perfect bipedal locomotion in machines.
  — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• Dinosaur shrimp don’t have this option, so their locomotion is a bit like three steps forward, one step back.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
• Though the fat cells did seem to be moving themselves, their means of locomotion was unusual.
  — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
• Neurons on a chip help something like a robotic finger fall in love with the color blue or a robotic cat learn the basics of locomotion.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
• His basic locomotion is a kick-and-hop, and that reckless onward rush is an ideal match for the animation that drives the film along.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
• The evolutionary ball started rolling, of course, when walking on two feet meant the hands were no longer needed for locomotion.
  — Madelaine Böhme, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
• Xia and colleagues theorized that the lack of tails in apes likely improved their locomotion.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• The Phantom is a superb place to spend time, but locomotion adds little sensation beyond the fact that the view through the windows of gawping mortals starts to scroll.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 12 Oct. 2017
• Ashley Hammond, an expert on the evolution of locomotion in great apes and early humans, will take up the post on June 1.
  — Michael Balter, Scientific American, 21 May 2018
• No matter their appearance, one thing all species of frogfish have in common is their strange mode of locomotion.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
• Disney hopes that their Judy Hopps robot will soon be able to use the help of a robotic tricycle, crate, or skateboard to enable new forms of locomotion.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 11 Feb. 2024
• Because their strut has taken them to the far reaches of Earth, studying their gait could inspire new forms of locomotion for micro-scale robots.
  — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Dec. 2021
• The team was able to successfully demonstrate all of Cobra’s modes of locomotion and took home the Artemis Award, the competition’s top honors.
  — WIRED, 15 Feb. 2023
• Overall, the gold mine is in the new form of locomotion created by a small army of independent, shape-shifting robots.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019
• Will the Tesla bot do bipedal locomotion, the complex two-legged walking that humans have perfected over millions of years?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2021
• The emergence of bipedalism kicked off a long phase of rampant evolutionary riffing on this form of locomotion.
  — Jeremy Desilva, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
• This method of locomotion resembles the arm-swinging style that tree-loving primates use to cruise around the forest canopy, which is known as brachiation.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
• Less refined than their name suggests, mudskippers can use their front fins on land in a lurching style of locomotion called crutching.
  — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2020
• Here is a process of locomotion that is absolutely at her command.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 July 2018
• The Aerial-Biped isn't designed to walk as its primary means of locomotion but rather to simulate gaits that are beyond the scope of current bipedal robots.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2018
• So obviously, Spot is a quadruped, Atlas is a biped—those are tried and true methods of locomotion in the animal kingdom.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 19 Apr. 2021
• Elephants move laterally, but if sauropods walked that way, there would be too much swaying from side to side for stable locomotion.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
• This is an example of a new Spot capability when a custom locomotion controller can be used on the robot.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024