How to Use android in a Sentence

android

noun
  • Do androids dream of electric sheep?
    Chris Klimek, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And yet, alas, what the movie proves is that androids are meant to be servants.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • How about monsters that eat cities and androids that dream of electric sheep?
    Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The zany horror film is as self-aware as the sentient android at its center.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2023
  • But his plan goes horribly wrong when the android tries to kill the Avengers.
    Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 24 Jan. 2021
  • For better or worse, so much of cyberpunk's android dreams have come true.
    Madeline Ashby, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021
  • There’s Alien’s chunky computer screens, splashed with xenomorph slime and android milk.
    Yussef Cole, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2025
  • With Diana at his side, Hugh could command her to hack an android.
    Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Todd Pletcher knows that the world regards him as some kind of horse training android.
    Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2017
  • One boxed with an android in a back-alley ring, while onlookers crowded around.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 13 June 2018
  • Android will be the first platform to switch to the new client, followed by iOS.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 1 June 2017
  • By the end of the performance, however, our android does have needs.
    Miriam Katz, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Many Android apps are already designed to work with phones and tablets, even when offline.
    Anick Jesdanun, The Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2017
  • The writing tends to be stylized and stilted, which works for the android leads but leaves the humans more flat.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The series will center on a pair of androids who are raising human children.
    Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 21 Apr. 2020
  • But the show was also criticised for focusing too much on the androids.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Users have the option to search via the Instant Checkmate app for android.
    Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Kirsh is the android tasked with watching over the first generation of hybrids.
    EW.com, 25 July 2025
  • The book follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter on a mission to kill a group of rogue androids.
    Theara Coleman, The Week, 26 June 2023
  • Dek gets help from Thia (Elle Fanning), an android with half a body that goes on the quest with him.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 July 2025
  • The androids, or hosts, are marginally less corrupt, but Dolores is coming to terms with her own dark side.
    Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The film will be set in a futuristic world where humans and androids fight shoulder to shoulder.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2018
  • In the book, the main character falls in love with an android that only pretends to requite his feelings.
    IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The problem was that the android wasn’t a good substitute for the person that someone’s grieving over.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2024
  • This image shows the front view of an android designed to look and act like Bina Rothblatt.
    Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2010
  • So was Dolores the one who remade Arnold into android Bernard?
    William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2018
  • Stories tied him to the android via ionic energy and brainwaves that implied the two were akin to brothers.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2022
  • One character in the movie is Arthur, an android bartender played by Michael Sheen.
    Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
  • But that couldn’t save the old World War II-era android from an explosive end.
    EW.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Ha’s only companions are Evrim, the world’s first self-aware android and a cyborg soldier.
    Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 10 Oct. 2022

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