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    Use "locomotion" in a sentence

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    locomotion


    1. If he was only to achieve locomotion by crawling on his belly, after having persuaded Eve to partake of the apple, pray tell just what detriment did he endure in becoming the recipient of such crawling, since that had been his process of locomotion, anon


    2. Other important point of the power of the international capital or accumulated money in the Banks is its rapid locomotion for application or withdrawal


    3. Locomotion and transportation will not give you salvation


    4. Hence, there are many methods of locomotion for


    5. Its method of locomotion was absolutely beyond her comprehension


    6. Again, I understood that all locomotion appeared this way due to the difference in vibratory speed between physical existence and the true speed of my energy consciousness


    7. And thankfully, this kind of locomotion was a lot easier


    8. During that time tissues and structures were developed for growth, protection, feeding, locomotion, reproduction and other tasks necessary to even larger, more complex organisms


    9. is because the serpents form is one of the primary forms that is extremely successful in terms of locomotion from an evolutionary point of view


    10. The ever-increasing power of locomotion may join the extremes of earth

    11. Among the articulates there were annelid worms one and a half meters long, furnished with a pink proboscis, equipped with 1,700 organs of locomotion, snaking through the waters, and as they went, throwing off every gleam in the solar spectrum


    12. He could not understand what furious desire for locomotion urged these individuals never to wish to stop


    13. locomotion that can be inhibited by blocking the effect of NAcc output in one of its


    14. Starting at her age, she would never be a very good rider, but she was determined to achieve the ability to do it as a means of locomotion in that country


    15. Seeing how important an organ of locomotion the tail is in most aquatic animals, its general presence and use for many purposes in so many land animals, which in their lungs or modified swim-bladders betray their aquatic origin, may perhaps be thus accounted for


    16. In the first and simplest stage, the terminal segment of a limb shuts down either on the square summit of the broad penultimate segment, or against one whole side, and is thus enabled to catch hold of an object, but the limb still serves as an organ of locomotion


    17. There is no more difficulty in understanding how the branched spines of some ancient Echinoderm, which served as a defence, became developed through natural selection into tridactyle pedicellariae, than in understanding the development of the pincers of crustaceans, through slight, serviceable modifications in the ultimate and penultimate segments of a limb, which was at first used solely for locomotion


    18. The adult might also become fitted for sites or habits, in which organs of locomotion or of the senses, etc


    19. One would have at least expected it in locomotion


    20. It would seem that with the dissemination of culture, of improved means of locomotion, of frequent intercourse among the men of the various nations, in connection with the diffusion of the press, and, above all, in connection with the complete absence of danger from other nations, the deception of patriotism ought to become harder and harder, and ought in the end to become impossible

    21. But the point is, that these same means of a universal external culture, of improved methods of locomotion, and of intercommunication, and above all, of the press, which the governments have seized upon and seize upon more and more, give them now such a power of exciting in the nations hostile feelings toward one another, that, though on the one hand the obviousness of the uselessness and harm of patriotism has increased, there has, on the other, increased the power of the governments and of the ruling classes to influence the masses, by rousing patriotism in them


    22. And besides mowing, each has some other business to do,—to plough up new land and harrow it; the women have the linen to make, bread to bake, and the washing to do; and the peasants must drive to the mill and to market; they have the official affairs of their community to attend to; they have also to provide the local government officials with means of locomotion, and to pass the night in the fields with the pastured horses


    23. If the life of a man is filled with toil, and if he knows the delights of rest, he requires no chambers, furniture, and rich and varied clothing; he requires less costly food; he needs no means of locomotion, or of diversion


    24. Livingstone Wade surveyed the landau into which he stepped with scant favor; and the look which he gave to the ragged darky who held the reins was only equaled by the one he bestowed on the two battered equines who were to serve as their means of locomotion


    25. Not but what one still sees them, beautifully appointed, at any track; but instead of being the chosen means of locomotion for the fortunate, they are merely a picturesque way of wasting time


    26. Our mothers and grandmothers rode, but took it as an elegant relaxation, or even as a mere means of locomotion


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    Synonyms for "locomotion"

    locomotion travel motive power motivity

    "locomotion" definitions

    the power or ability to move


    self-propelled movement