Sentences with artificial
ar·ti·fi·cial
A a - ...a wholefood diet free from artificial additives, colours and flavours.
- Even in the artificial environment of an office, our body rhythms continue to affect us.
- Swedish doctors have for the first time successfully used artificial blood to treat patients with a method they hope will eventually help.
- The artificial beach along the Thames is part of an Australian government trade campaign.
- The voice was patronizing and affected, the accent artificial.
- The meat was chewy and the sauce was glutinous and tasted artificial.
- “Everywhere we look, there is a barely recorded struggle happening between real and artificial,” he writes.
- Artificial is applied to anything made by human work, esp. if in imitation of something natural [artificial hair]; synthetic is applied to a substance that is produced by chemical synthesis and is used as a substitute for a natural substance which it resembles [synthetic dyes]; ersatz, which refers to an artificial substitute, always implies an inferior substance [ersatz coffee made of acorns]; counterfeit, spurious are applied to a careful imitation deliberately intended to deceive [counterfeit money, a spurious signature]
- artificial materials of great strength
- artificial cream
- An artificial manner
- An artificial laugh
- An artificial classification
- artificial teeth
- An artificial smile
- An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
- Her manner was somewhat artificial.
- artificial flowers.
- artificial vanilla flavoring.
- An artificial smile.
- artificial manners; artificial speech.
- artificial rules for dormitory residents.
- An artificial system of classification.