Examples of droid in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Now, Digit is putting its backward-knees design, ten years in the making, to good use: The droid recently got hired at its first real job—picking up totes at a Spanx facility in Connecticut and putting them onto conveyors. Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 16 July 2024 With the tiny droid emitting a bright light, a swarm of umbramoths descended upon the Sith and swept him up to the sky. Keisha Hatchett, TVLine, 25 June 2024 The droid then releases your package from its belly before ascending back into the sky. Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024 Chipper and caring as Sunny seems, Suzie’s mistrust might not be entirely without reason: The series opens with the unsettling sight of a droid beating a man to death. Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 See all Example Sentences for droid 

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Word History

Etymology

by shortening

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of droid was in 1952

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“Droid.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/droid. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.

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