Sentence examples for it propelled itself from inspiring English sources

Sometimes it propelled itself along with its tongue, its slight stump of neck, or its comically paddling ears.

Instead of sliding down the face, as a surfer might have done, it propelled itself completely out of the water, its body arcing gracefully as it came down again in front of me, still in front of the breaking wave.

It was also highly portable — in fact, it propelled itself — and could move either along railroad tracks or independently of them.

It propels itself using its muscular tail rather than its pectoral fins.

In the first phase, the jelly contracts its open bell and pushes water behind it, propelling itself forward.

It propels itself through the water with its wings to scoop up krill and plankton, but it also flies laboriously.

Google is keeping the site, aimed at 13- to 34-year-olds, predominantly about high-end designers as it propels itself on to a booming online fashion catwalk alongside eBay and Amazon.

They storyboarded it out, but stalled at animating the sperm's long tail, with which it propels itself.

No matter if a creature lives in air or water, whether it propels itself with skin, feather, or gelatinous flaps, the propulsive limbs of all animals seem to have the same bendy design constraint: About one-third of the length of the structure flexes during steady motion, and the bending angle ranges from 15° to 40°.

It locks on to brainwaves, and when the orb is activated it propels itself towards the unlucky target.

Uniquely among mammals, it propels itself when swimming by an alternate rowing motion of the front feet; although all four feet of the platypus are webbed, the hind feet (which are held against the body) do not assist in propulsion, but are used for steering in combination with the tail.