How to Use locomotion in a Sentence

locomotion

noun
  • Walking is one form of locomotion.
  • The legs do more than provide locomotion.
    — New Atlas, 9 June 2026
  • Calling those who root for railways and live for locomotion!
    — Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Dinosaur shrimp don’t have this option, so their locomotion is a bit like three steps forward, one step back.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Though the fat cells did seem to be moving themselves, their means of locomotion was unusual.
    — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2018
  • This is a tough cut of meat, coming from muscles around the bone that are used for locomotion and to hold the rib cage together.
    — Noelle Carter, sacbee, 15 Aug. 2017
  • This is a tough cut of meat, coming from muscles around the bone that are used for locomotion and to hold the rib cage together.
    — Noelle Carter, charlotteobserver, 25 July 2017
  • But nothing quite like this hanging locomotion has been noted before in birds.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2024
  • This threw a spanner in the works as far as the theory of human locomotion was concerned.
    — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2016
  • Here is a process of locomotion that is absolutely at her command.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 6 July 2018
  • No matter their appearance, one thing all species of frogfish have in common is their strange mode of locomotion.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In research centers around the world, roboticists have for decades been on a quest to perfect bipedal locomotion in machines.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Xia and colleagues theorized that the lack of tails in apes likely improved their locomotion.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
  • This kind of information is vital for those who want to replicate bipedal locomotion.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Samsung The whole left and right sides would spin for locomotion, while the center camera portion was kept steady.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • As per the team, both are critical for high-speed locomotion and dynamic balance.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The evolutionary ball started rolling, of course, when walking on two feet meant the hands were no longer needed for locomotion.
    — Madelaine Böhme, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
  • Less refined than their name suggests, mudskippers can use their front fins on land in a lurching style of locomotion called crutching.
    — National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Elephants move laterally, but if sauropods walked that way, there would be too much swaying from side to side for stable locomotion.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2022
  • King is interested in giving locomotion, a story, to the male nude.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Neurons on a chip help something like a robotic finger fall in love with the color blue or a robotic cat learn the basics of locomotion.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Putting one foot in front of another has long been a popular form of locomotion, even for creatures with other options.
    — Timothy Farrington, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
  • His basic locomotion is a kick-and-hop, and that reckless onward rush is an ideal match for the animation that drives the film along.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The team did look to living creatures for inspiration, studying dog and cat locomotion.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The emergence of bipedalism kicked off a long phase of rampant evolutionary riffing on this form of locomotion.
    — Jeremy Desilva, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The challenge goes far beyond locomotion.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 June 2026
  • These were likely used for locomotion and for sifting through ocean sediment for smaller food items, much like many of today’s crustaceans.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • The researchers suggest this locomotion style might help the bug avoid being eaten by anything lurking nearby.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2021
  • With these laborious methods of locomotion, sea cucumbers were long thought to never exceed speeds of about a yard a day.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 15 May 2025
  • Overall, the gold mine is in the new form of locomotion created by a small army of independent, shape-shifting robots.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2019

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