Example Sentences

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Not only will the Neorest 550's self-opening and closing toilet lid have you wondering how you ever managed without it, the heated seat comes with a cheerful built-in night light.

From Time Magazine Archive

He still loved to build gadgets�a rolling roof and self-opening doors for his summer lodge in Canada, an automatic record-changer, a line of mechanical toys which his brother Lorin manufactured.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Smoke-ring Apparatus.—Get a large tin of the self-opening kind and cut a hole 2 inches across in the bottom.

From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald

Captain Ezra Morton, and Ruth his wife; he is selling a patent, self-opening gate.

From In the Heart of a Fool by White, William Allen

Air brakes and self-opening and self-closing doors on cars are operated by means of compression pumps.

From General Science by Clark, Bertha M.