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How to use cyborg in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Cyborg means a being which is part machine and part organic. Example: “I didn't know he was empathic until I realized that he had evidently read my mind with his cyborg implant.”

Examples of cyborg by meaning

nounA being which is part machine and part organic.

  • I would not classify the Tin Woodman as magical robot, but more of a magical cyborg, if anything.1981, Teri (Pettit at PARC-MAXC), fa.sf-lovers newsgroup, "Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V3 #122", May 15
  • He coined the word "cyborg".1991, Timothy K. Smith, "Manfred Clynes Sees A Pattern in Love -- He's Got the Printouts", The Wall Street Journal, September 24, front page
  • His autobiography, I, Cyborg, which came out last month (Century, £16.99), meticulously catalogues his very many newspaper, magazine, radio and TV appearances.2002 September 19, “Short Cuts”, in London Review of Books, volume 24, number 18, Thomas Jones

More sentences with cyborg

  • I didn't know he was empathic until I realized that he had evidently read my mind with his cyborg implant.From the entry empathic
  • What I really liked about cyborg anthropology is that it crossed multiple fields of study.2012 December 5, Amber Case, “Cyborg anthropologist: We can all be superhuman”, in CNN. From the entry anthropology
  • Procedural and generative cybertext work undermines the concept of authorship and encourages the discussion about 'cyborg authorship'2005, Eva Müller-Zettelmann, Margarete Rubik, Theory into poetry: new approaches to the lyric. From the entry cybertext
  • Unlike the cyborg and cybercowboy, technoman Lenny is a sad figure who cannot move on.2002, Amanda Fernbach, Fantasies of fetishism: from decadence to the post-human. From the entry cybercowboy
  • Cyborg romance is the flip side of the robot uprising.2010 September 28, Annalee Newitz, “Why do We Keep Falling in Love with Cyborgs?”, in io9, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2019. From the entry nuke
  • As we've mentioned, the cyborgs are depicted with typically kawaii features, such as disproportionately large eyes and heads, and thin bodies.2010, Josef Steiff, Tristan D. Tamplin, Anime and Philosophy: Wide Eyed Wonder, Open Court, →ISBN. From the entry kawaii
  • Hara way offers a powerful new myth — the cyborg — for our postmodern dataist era which, according to her, follows a "command-control-communication-intelligence" code.1996, American Studies, page 652. From the entry dataist
  • Cyborged servitors – mind-wiped snail-men – constantly cruised the black marble floor of his long, barrel-vaulted chamber, cleansing and laying down trails of scewnted polish behind them.1994, Ian Watson, Harlequin, Boxtree, →ISBN, page 9. From the entry cyborged

Meaning of cyborg

  1. noun A being which is part machine and part organic.
  2. noun A human, animal or other being with electronic or bionic prostheses.
  3. verb To convert (something) into a cyborg.

Full definition of cyborg

Questions about cyborg in a sentence

How do you use cyborg in a sentence?
Cyborg is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I didn't know he was empathic until I realized that he had evidently read my mind with his cyborg implant.”
What is a short sentence with cyborg?
“He coined the word "cyborg".”
What does cyborg mean?
Cyborg means a being which is part machine and part organic.

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