How to Use automatic in a Sentence

automatic

1 of 2 adjective

• She always has an automatic smile for everyone.
• Without thinking, he gave an automatic reply.
• Five guys armed with automatic weapons ask him to step out of his truck.
  — Corky Carroll, Oc Register, 9 May 2026
• None of these paths is automatic or risk-free, though.
  — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 15 June 2026
• If your sponge has tears or nicks, that’s an automatic toss.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 8 Nov. 2025
• There’s like an automatic thing to it.
  — Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2026
• So is going to the automatic car wash bad for your car?
  — Charles Singh, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
• Breath automatic singed in a tight grin.
  — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
• But the fast, automatic part of the mind often gets there first.
  — Jens Ludwig, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
• Do not use automatic headlights since your tail lights will be dark.
  — Southern California Weather Report, Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
• That said, an artist not matching their opus isn’t the automatic mark of a miss.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• Or that automatic glass door swinging open for no one?
  — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• That automatic scan is now gone.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Feb. 2026
• The tax break on tip income is not automatic.
  — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 19 Feb. 2026
• Can dress shirts be dried in an automatic dryer?
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 31 Dec. 2025
• That automatic reply from her email has since stopped.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 25 Apr. 2026
• Letting the clock run out results in an automatic ball added to the count.
  — Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026
• Or the automatic first choice of the models?
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
• Posting a bond in the full amount would trigger an automatic stay.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Does the automatic car wash damage your car?
  — Charles Singh, USA Today, 21 Oct. 2025
• What’s the best automatic dog feeder to buy?
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
• This was the first state meet to use fully automatic timing.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2026
• Even if the goalie makes the initial save, that high-stick should have been an automatic whistle.
  — Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 26 May 2026
• That would have been an automatic one-game suspension for him.
  — Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
• Those savings should be automatic and tied to your tax filing.
  — Annie Nova, CNBC, 13 June 2026
• How teams stack up in the race for automatic bids, first-round byes and staying on the right side of the bubble.
  — Austin Mock, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
• Turn the automatic sprinklers off for now.
  — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 10 Feb. 2026
• The cue is a trigger that signals your brain to go into automatic mode.
  — Sara Ellis Conant, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Laid flat, those lapels could mark out a landing zone for a chopper under automatic ground fire.
  — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
• That’s not something automatic, by the way.
  — Christine Mortag, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 May 2026

automatic

2 of 2 noun

• Will your next car be a manual or an automatic?
• To make matters worse, the mill was mated to a two-speed automatic.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 Dec. 2022
• These days, few humans can shift gears faster and smarter than a good automatic anyway.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
• The 10-speed automatic is happy to keep it in its torquey sweet spot.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 8 July 2020
• The transmission is a quick and smooth eight-speed dual-clutch automatic.
  — cleveland, 4 July 2020
• With the dual-clutch automatic, expect to see 60-mph times in the low- to mid-fours.
  — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 21 Dec. 2020
• Even then, no one can conceal-carry, and semi-automatics are out of the question.
  — Terrell Jermaine Starr, The Root, 3 Oct. 2017
• An eight-speed dual-clutch automatic (a Corvette first) is the sole transmission.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 10 Dec. 2022
• Drivers have a choice of a six-speed manual transmission or a nine-speed automatic.
  — Morgan Korn, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2022
• The transmission, a seven-speed automatic, is sort of a perfect metaphor for the car overall.
  — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 19 Sep. 2020
• There's no manual; Chevy didn't go that far and is sticking with the eight-speed dual-clutch automatic.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2021
• This gives you the most power and the nine-speed automatic, which is preferable to the CVT.
  — cleveland, 11 July 2020
• The rest are outfitted with 8-speed automatics that can be had in a sport version that adds steering wheel paddle shifters.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2017
• Newman and Riverside played for many seasons in the same district, making this game an automatic to be played.
  — Chris Dabe, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• Working with a nine-speed automatic, the Titan can tow up to 9320 pounds.
  — Nick Kurczewski, Car and Driver, 23 Sep. 2022
• The six-speed automatic is now only available on the top Grand Touring model.
  — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 16 Dec. 2021
• The only transmission on offer is a 9-speed automatic, and all-wheel drive is a standard feature.
  — Kyle Edward, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
• Stacking the gains, Toyota bolts the turbo four to a six-speed automatic that uses a wet clutch instead of a torque converter.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 25 Oct. 2022
• Gun stores in New Zealand sold out of semi-automatics as gun enthusiasts panic-bought in the wake of a ban.
  — Zac Fleming, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2019
• While the rest of the class has eight- or nine-speed conventional automatics, Porsche persists with a dual-clutch that adds one gear this year for a total of eight.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 18 July 2017
• This makes a cartridge like the 10mm, which is available in semi-automatics with a higher capacity than a revolver, a good choice.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 24 Feb. 2020
• Today’s automatics feature six, eight or even as many as 10 forward speeds and shift more smoothly and efficiently than ever.
  — Jim Gorzelany, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• To offer a stick shift in the 911, Porsche converted its dual-clutch automatic to work like a manual trans.
  — Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 5 Aug. 2020
• Base models got a four-speed manual transmission, while DX trims got the five-cog unit; the two-speed automatic returned as an option.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 29 Apr. 2021
• The Frontier offers the most power in the segment thanks to its 310-hp V-6, which pairs with a nine-speed automatic.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 28 July 2022
• The only automatics available to the public are those that were in circulation before a 1986 ban.
  — Ryan Santistevan, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2017
• Fuel economy ratings with the base engine and the eight-speed automatic are impressive at 30 mpg in the city and 40 mpg highway.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 26 Oct. 2020
• The decline of the true manual—thanks to the ease of automatics and the future-tech of paddle shifters in fancy cars—means that fewer Americans are exposed to stick-shift cars.
  — Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017
• The Porsche's 541-hp twin-turbo V-8 and eight-speed automatic is the only powertrain.
  — Austin Irwin and Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2021
• Into that hole went a 200-hp electric motor from a Chevrolet Bolt EV and a fresh four-speed automatic.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 5 June 2021