Sentence examples for like a gecko from inspiring English sources
"It attaches itself to the wall, like a gecko.
A few years after Stickybot, the researchers got their chance to climb like a gecko too.
In an interview with Tempo, the country's most respected magazine, the police official said he knew he was being wiretapped and played along with the caller; in an allusion to the anticorruption commission and the police, he said, "It's like a gecko challenging a crocodile".
That means that for humans to climb up a wall like a gecko, they'd need to use 40% of their skin, or sticky feet in U.S. size 114. .
In April Full, 48, and Cutkosky, 49, unveiled their most recent bio-inspired robot, the two-foot long "Stickybot," which strides up a window much like a gecko but at 1.5 inches a second.
Physicist Professor Andre Geim's constant search for new ideas has led to some extraordinary discoveries, from levitating frogs to a tape that sticks to surfaces like a gecko's foot.
But describing his typical foray into smokable cocaine as a binge is a bit like describing Godzilla as a gecko.
Rachel Figueroa-Levin has a dog, three cats, five fish, a snake, a turtle, a parakeet, a gecko ("like the Geico lizard," she explained) and two sugar gliders (picture little flying opossums).
And, like a real gecko, its toes are covered with suitable ridges.
Working with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, they have figured out how to enable a quadcopter drone to stick a landing — at any angle — much like a flying gecko or a bat.
Most of the characters have tortuous shared histories and secrets to which we are privy, so the most mundane event — like a little boy studying a gecko — reminds us of hugely significant incidents in the past.
