Example Sentences

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"Nano-engineered self-propelling particles can be used for a variety of industrial and drug delivery applications, and we think there are potential insights that will come from these results," Sigala says.

From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026

“So a potentially chance set of events creates a self-propelling cluster.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

It's a self-propelling, extremely flexible, highly steerable robot, according to Deepak Trivedi, a mechanical engineer at GE Research.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2023

But, he added, both sides have created “a self-propelling machine of fear” fueled by nerve-jangling uncertainty over what the other is up to.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2022

My words had by this time acquired a distressing, self-propelling tendency, and linked themselves into compounds of twenty and thirty syllables.

From In the Days of My Youth by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford