Example Sentences

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He is sui generis — a weird, self-lubricating machine put on this Earth to use brushes and paint instead of a lens and film to capture “quick things passing,” as the artist puts it.

From Washington Post • Sep. 7, 2022

"Kissing the mucus and flesh of corals with self-lubricating lips was not what we were expecting," said marine biologist Víctor Huertas of James Cook University in Australia.

From Reuters • Jun. 5, 2017

The leading advantages of "G. E's" new device are that it is automatic, self-lubricating, and practically noiseless.

From Time Magazine Archive

CMC uses Nylatron self-lubricating bearings for its brackets, making them maintenance-free, according to CMC's Rick Presley.

From Time Magazine Archive

The expense of the motor and the self-lubricating bearings and so on is pretty steep.

From The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone by Bonner, Richard