locomote

How To Use locomote In A Sentence

• For example, an organism that eats a plant merely has to detect the plant and locomote to it, since the plant will remain where it is while it is approached.
• Attempts to locomote above some maximum speed often results in postural failure of the animal.
• Certainly the rear number plate of the taxi had been unreadable, and no one could have positively id ntified the eccentric driver with the Saint; but Claud Eustace Teal had seen him and spoken with him in Bond Street only a few minutes before the disastrous events which had followed, and Simon was only too familiar with the suspicious and uncharitable grooves in which Mr. Teal's mind locomoted along its orbit. The Saint in Action
• I sashayed, shimmied and otherwise locomoted myself into one of several establishments dedicated to the relief of sudden and acute hunger pangs.
• The mudskipper is an amphibious fish that has the ability to locomote on land.
• The little truck I pushed around the summer of '44 didn't use much gas, nor did the hind legs by which I locomoted the last year of that conflict. Progress/regress free association
• Well, you see, the like of that called for a response, and so I had to put in and tell what a beautiful, hazel-eyed creole she was -- what long raven hair that fell over her shoulders in waving tresses, and what beautiful hands and feet, and how fawnlike she locomoted about and about, and how shy and startled she was when I began to address her, and what juicy lips that seemed pouting for a lover, and then her teeth -- her pearly teeth -- that were almost as pretty as those she has now. Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903,
• The ancestral archosaur was a predator that could probably locomote on two or four legs.
• Macro-Microbe locomoted himself inside the building of NextDrug Corporation, and soon faced a receptionist, which was another misnomer because Macro-Microbe had no face. The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe
• Human infants are unable to locomote on their own.