self-moving
Example Sentences
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Before now, Kriegman said, “no one has been using living materials as self-moving, self-powered robots.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2021
Eternally patient and silent, these looming claymen have a greater dignity than sinister, prattling living dolls or self-moving puppets.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010
His theme was "The Transformation of an Organic Design," and the design he referred to was a longtime favorite of Nature's, the "self-moving grappling bridge."
From Time Magazine Archive
Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
A self-moving car with a trolley overhead touching the singing wire!
From Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
