Example Sentences

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Another, represented by a robotlike avatar and the username UncleTuskle, said that “as a person with social phobia, it’s easier for me to be here” than in a physical church.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 31, 2022

A likely next step is that our current machines will become more robotlike.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2018

Reviewing the movie in The New York Times, Howard Thompson characterized it as a “sci-fi honey, with tiny earthlings ‘from a destroyed planet’ dominated as pets or outcasts by huge, robotlike rulers.”

From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2016

In Free Radicals, Brooks proposes that the tobacco strategy derives much of its strength from scientists’ tendency to present themselves as dispassionate and robotlike researchers, and their findings as the product of purely objective experimentation.

From Slate • May 7, 2012

Then she stood up, put her jacket back on with the same robotlike movements, and left.

From "The Stranger" by Albert Camus