560 examples of automatic in sentences

"But we've settled our little account, haven't we, old man?" Mac jerked his head in that automatic fashion that with him meant genial and whole-hearted agreement.

(1) Automatic, automobile, autocrat, autobiography; (2) autograph, autonomy.

This soon becomes automatic but it needs thinking out at first.

Automatic action in the moral world; the reflex movement which seems to be self-determination, and has been hanged and howled at as such (metaphorically) for nobody knows how many centuries: until somebody shall study this as Marshall Hall has studied reflex nervous action in the bodily system, I would not give much for men's judgments of each other's characters.

I suppose the study of automatic action in the moral world (you see what I mean through the apparent contradiction of terms) may be a dangerous one in the view of many people.

His back was toward her, but she saw that he was holding the door to the room ajar, that his eye was pressed to the opening, and that through it he had pushed the muzzle of his automatic.

His hands were held above his head; behind him, with his automatic, the staff officer she had surprised on the fourth floor was driving him forward.

Sometimes in his agony of fear he could almost have been glad to end it all with one shot of the silver-mounted automatic he kept always near, to beat Jim Roberts to the bliss of oblivion in the easiest way.

There never were any braver troops than those in the world, but at first they didn't have the automatic discipline they needed.

Here is an automatic, Miss Strong.

Nevertheless Fleck, as he crept stealthily up to the building with Carter at his side, took out his automatic and held it in readiness, and Carter followed his example.

He jerked out his automatic, but before he could raise it, or even fire from his hip, the first of his assailants was upon him with a force that drove it from his hand.

He searched for his automatic.

It costs no more to run a Midget than it does to run an automatic pipe-lighter.

Unlike a locomotive, the automobile must be light, must be able to carry power or fuel enough to drive it a long distance, and yet must be almost automatic in its workings.

A tank holding from twenty to forty gallons of gasoline is connected, through an automatic regulator which controls the flow of oil, to a burner under the boiler.

All this is automatic, though sometimes the driver has to resort to the persuasive qualities of a monkey-wrench and an oil-can.

An automatic time stamp accomplishes this without possibility of error.

Automatic exchanges, whereby the central telephone operator is done away with, is one of the things that inventors are now at work on.

" So, in spite of the protests of Captain Martin, the change was made, and late that night Ned awoke to find himself sitting up on the edge of his bed, automatic in hand, listening to the steady boring of a tool of some sort around the lock of his door!

But the prevalence of slavery which aided them in the one policy hampered them in the other, for it made the rewards arbitrary instead of automatic and it restricted the scope of the laborers' employments and of their ambitions as well.

Yes, I am glad we have decided to go awayvery gladvery glad indeed!' He spoke with an automatic sort of emphasis, his eyes wandering, and his hands twitching nervously.

AUTOMATIC AND ADJUSTABLE REGULATOR AND UNLOADING DEVICE APPLIED TO INGERSOLL-SERGEANT AIR COMPRESSORS.]

The whole attitude was one of extreme fatigue, though for the silence and automatic movement of him you might almost think him a piece of ambulatory mechanism.

An automatic courtesy gave a seat here and there, but no one gave any attention to any business but his own thoughts and his own sad station.

560 examples of  automatic  in sentences