Example sentences for: automatic

How can you use “automatic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The first is pulse . This is the method used since the invention of the automatic telephone exchange by Strowger and others early in this century.

  • The classic example: An automatic teller machine was swiped from police headquarters in broad daylight.

  • It quoted officials as saying that the Tokaimura plant wasn't equipped to handle a critical mass accident and lacked automatic controls over the flow of nuclear fuel.

  • [In the early 1960s I designed a hyphenation program (for automatic typesetting) based on a logic of prefix-root-suffix combined with a table look-up (for anomalies: for instance, before analysis of a word ending in -ing , the word would be checked against a list including thing, bring, string , and other words that could not be hyphenated).

  • As I have noted elsewhere, other "two-kinds-of-people" categories might include dogs vs. cats, savers vs. tossers, deciduous vs. evergreen, standard vs. automatic.


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