Sentence examples for locomoting from inspiring English sources

Sea snakes are almost totally helpless on land, locomoting only with the utmost difficulty.

Flatworms are thus constrained to be relatively flat and comparatively small; parasitic worms, which do not locomote, can achieve immense lengths (e.g., tapeworms), but they remain very thin.

To discover if prior visual experience is necessary for the typical avoidance of the flanking platform that looks deepest requires subjects able to locomote well from the start (e.g., chicks) or those deprived of visual experience (e.g., rats) until their locomotor ability has developed.

Minetti said: "A serious implication is to stimulate thinking about the discrepancy between the (relatively fast) timing of space exploration and the long-lasting evolution that would be required to adapt actual living beings to locomote in different gravity environments".

As with the dextrous ventriloquism in Vernon God Little, Gabriel's living and very beautiful voice carries this convulsive novel: a girl's "buttocks locomote in denim"; a Burger King sign becomes "a delicate graduation of reds from hot capsicum to dry blood"; high intoxication itself is "a glycerine Tibet where you whirl under stars, arms outstretched, free of yourself".

Yet above all the skeleton allows us to locomote, which means it gets banged up and kicked around.