Sample Sentences for
artificial
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artificial as in:  an artificial heart

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    The company does not use artificial ingredients.
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    The design favors natural light over artificial light.
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    I control my artificial arm with my mind.
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    Right, the cold and artificial pleasures of the theme park.  (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
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    And/or he couldn't/wouldn't talk about it to me, assuming he wanted to, assuming the entire drama wasn't a product of my estrogen poisoning or a symptom of a brain tumor caused by eating so many gallons of artificially colored, high-fructose corn syrup–enhanced plastic food products when I was younger.  (source)
    artificially = made by humans rather than nature
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    Linearity is an artificial way of viewing the world.  (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
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    If that's the kind of woman Luke prefers—tall, naturally skinny, artificially inflated in the chest area (I'd stake Grandma's life on it), and obsessed with money, more power to him.  (source)
    artificially = done by humans rather than nature
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    The outside of the suit was covered with an elaborate exoskeleton, a network of artificial tendons and joints that could both sense and inhibit my movements.  (source)
    artificial = created by humans rather than occurring naturally
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    Stopping, the Count turned to Anna with the smile of the artificially polite.†  (source)
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    And when we're turned away from it [the sun], it is night. And if we want to see we have to use artificial lights.  (source)
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    I boarded the shuttle, kicking off past the boundary of my artificially generated gravity—the shuttle was too small to have its own.†  (source)
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    Then I just lay curled up on the bed, stroking the silken sheets, watching the sun set over the artificial candy Capitol.  (source)
    artificial = not natural
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    In this apartment of artificially maintained Indianness, I wanted to distance myself from everything Indian, everything Jyoti-like.†  (source)
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artificial as in:  an artificial smile

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    She put on an artificial smile for the cameras while berating my performance.
    artificial = not sincere
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    Eric's false smiles, his artificial words, his twisted ideals—they make me want to be sick.  (source)
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    The clerk's tone had an artificial politeness.  (source)
    artificial = not genuine
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    The very artificiality of the secret meeting invited capture.†  (source)
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    Lupin gave an artificial smile that was more like a grimace, then said, "So… do you accept my offer?"  (source)
    artificial = not genuine
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    We saw nothing real of it; all our impressions of the war were in the false medium of two dimensions—photographs in the papers and magazines, newsreels, posters—or artificially conveyed to us by a voice on the radio, or headlines across the top of a newspaper.  (source)
    artificially = in a manner designed to impress
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    By their obvious artificiality, they call into question the reality of landscape and figures alike.†  (source)
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    Her face would distort painfully for a moment, but was then immediately softened by a courteous if artificial smile.  (source)
    artificial = not genuine
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    She found herself speaking in an artificially sophisticated, ridiculous tone that was nothing like the way she spoke normally.  (source)
    artificially = in a manner designed to impress
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    Artificiality, a sense of imposed peace.†  (source)
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    She turned to Mrs. McKee and the room rang full of her artificial laughter.  (source)
    artificial = not sincere, pretended, or designed to impress
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    Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in twenty thousand people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel.  (source)
    artificially = in a false way
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    All my memories of her were human memories; an aura of artificiality clung to them.†  (source)
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