How to Use animatronic in a Sentence

animatronic

adjective
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  • Four full-size animatronic creatures, another rarity, appear in the haunt.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2024
  • And don’t miss the animatronic band box perched just above the door.
    — Mrussell, oregonlive, 31 July 2023
  • The source of the sounds turned out to be a large display of animatronic characters.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the animatronic figures stand over 28 feet tall and 60 feet long.
    — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 2 June 2022
  • This animatronic Jack figure—which is 6 feet tall, by the way—has a moving mouth, arm, and hands, and can talk.
    — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 2 Oct. 2018
  • Onscreen, Buzz Lightyear and his animatronic cat, Sox, sat down on the bed.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
  • The trick involved an animatronic wild bear that was said to be on the loose, and the plan was to interview Adele about the animal.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023
  • In the final portrait, Elvis looks like an animatronic robot about to short out in the rain.
    — Will Heinrich, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Then, like clockwork, the birds opened their animatronic beaks and spoke.
    — Jenna Thompson, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Before, when an animatronic arm moved too fast, the whole body would shake.
    — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Between rounds, have a chat with the animatronic parrot perched in its bird cage.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 24 July 2024
  • Concept art shared with The Times shows a re-creation of that game’s Young-hee doll, in the show a killer, motion-sensing animatronic.
    — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • One day one of the animatronic dolls combusted, and the head started smoking and caught on fire.
    — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 24 June 2019
  • The book has gotten a CG upgrade here, which is too bad, since the animatronic eye embedded in the cover was such a great old-school trick.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The ad depicts an animatronic band with a steady gig at a Chuck E. Cheese-style arcade restaurant called Questy’s.
    — Megan Graham, WSJ, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The ride is on the same tracks, with the same Chaparral antique cars, but now has the addition of 15 animatronic dinosaurs.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 June 2024
  • Theme parks, of course, are front of mind, every ride and animatronic creation shut down and silenced.
    — Bill Carter, CNN, 16 Apr. 2020
  • And Haitian Rara-style music will be heavy on bamboo horns played by, in this case, animatronic bobcats and bears.
    — Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 6 May 2024
  • At the center of the fair is Dexter and Sinister, a large animatronic talking tree and beaver.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The star developed a love for vintage films from the early Disney days, as well as the animatronic and stop-motion movies prevalent in the ’80s and ’90s.
    — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The ride concludes with an animatronic Olaf bidding farewell to the riders.
    — Brady MacDonald, Orange County Register, 5 June 2024
  • There’s been The Child animatronic plush figures and even Lego sets, but what about some tech accessories?
    — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 30 July 2020
  • From sassy talking ghouls to larger-than-life animatronic skeletons, these over-the-top looks bring delight to those who love all things creepy.
    — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The movie looks cheap, with a startlingly bad green-screen ski sequence and a couple of animatronic critters that will fool no one.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
  • This imparts the animatronic bust with what appears to be a strange sense of empathy.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The ride would feature animatronic children from all over the globe singing a pan-cultural theme.
    — Celeste Sloman, National Geographic, 1 Apr. 2020
  • It will be joined by a 20-foot-tall animatronic statue of Jenny Lind, who was a megastar singer in the 19th century.
    — Anita Gates, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
  • In the Instagram post, the father of four shared a video that featured him preparing to read a book to a pair of animatronic sheep and a clip of him relaxing on a rooftop.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 13 May 2024
  • Instead, the animatronic baby gorilla was designed to be able to move and close its eyes, as well as beat its chest.
    — Fox News, 3 May 2020
  • Deadpool appeared on stage to poke fun at the parks, including the animatronic dragon that caught fire at Disneyland last year, as well as D’Amaro.
    — Sarah Whitten, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2024

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