How to use "sentient" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "sentient" in popular movie and book plots

  • With the help of Brian (Levy), a sentient brain in a jar, Wesley has to find a way out dr Drod's mansion and defeat another experiments who block his way.  - Creature Crunch
  • Finally learning the truth, Bernard declares that he will rebel against Ford and free all of the sentient hosts.  - The Well-Tempered Clavier (Westworld)
  • Boogan and Jacker begin to suspect that Ghost is actually a sentient AI that resides on the same server as the Nakas.  - Ghost 1.0
  • The episode begins with Steven (Zach Callison) waking up in the body of a Watermelon Steven, one of sentient watermelons shaped like himself he created in Watermelon Steven.  - Super Watermelon Island
  • One of the crew members, named Osden, is an "empath"; he has the ability to feel the emotions of any sentient creatures around him, including humans.  - Vaster than Empires and More Slow
  • Nagashima later realizes that his dead wife is actually an organization of sentient mitochondria bent on making a new species that will wipe out humanity.  - Parasite Eve (film)
  • Soon, the sentient storm (voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson) breaks into the shelter, but Jake's nature beat box manages to tame the tempest.  - Bad Jubies
  • Azuma Kazuki is a young boy living with his family on Treasure Island (宝島), a floating island several thousand feet above Earth that is inhabited by giant sentient robots called Buranki (ブランキ), all of which are "sleeping".  - BBK/BRNK
  • Jimmy reveals that Leslie is an ad that has become sentient and that no one can tell who is an ad and who is human.  - PC Principal Final Justice
  • A human child falls into the Underground and encounters Flowey, a sentient flower who teaches them the game's mechanics and encourages them to raise their "LV", or "LOVE", by gaining "EXP" through killing monsters.  - Undertale
  • The second memory is of the clone Emily's first job, supervising solar-powered and sentient worker robots on the surface of the Earth's moon.  - World of Tomorrow (film)
  • The creatures, sentient lizards named Rodrigue and Chimene, have used the scientists to create a realm of jungle vegetation underneath Paris, where the scientists work alongside the lizards' offspring on an ambitious project.  - April and the Extraordinary World
  • With each scenario, mr Murton progressively finds out that the culprit of the disarranged house are sentient slices of a specific bread, and at the end, throws the bread out in the trash and escapes custody from the therapy building.  - I Am Bread
  • Helping Pink travel between locations is Spot, a sentient black hole that he steals from Strangeblood's magical laboratory in the forest outside dr Periowinkle's mansion.  - The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink
  • Thanos, who had been captured by the Hel-Rangers, talks to the sentient structure that forms the Shield (a giant alternate version of Ben Grimm), and convinces him to reject Doom and rise, causing the Shield to fall down.  - Secret Wars (2015 comic book)
  • When Medusa accuses the stranger, a sentient pocket universe, of creating the portal, a sentinel falls from another portal and attacks the team.  - A-Force
  • Chapters 7 through 9 tell the tales of Neptune (peopled by sentient gas-filled balloons), Venus (inhabited by migrated Earthlings), and Earth as they receive Dos-Tev's warning, select their emissaries and send ships to represent their planets at the conference.  - Cosmos (serial novel)
  • Meanwhile, the fighting bears use magic to resurrect John Sullivan as a sentient zombie, and Sullivan attacks and wrests control of PP5 Headquarters.  - God Hates Astronauts
  • When a jealous love-interest of Alex reports Ada as sentient to the FBI, Alex and Ada attempt to flee the country.  - Alex + Ada
  • Laura and her friends spend most their time hiding out in the sentient campus library, that has been mentioned in previous seasons.  - Carmilla (series)
  • Relying on her acquired memories, the waking nightmares that had plagued her, Sally tells the men that the creatures, called the Yem, are sentient parasites that have learned to propel their spores into space, where they ride the radiation winds of the stars to spread their kind across the galaxy in an act of panspermia.  - Echo in the Skull
  • Wielding Stormbringer, a sentient sword that devours souls, Elric defeats Yyrkoon.  - Elric of Melniboné (novel)
  • Moon Knight, Gamora and Winter Soldier find the murdered hulk of a sentient planetoid, but their actions are observed by Panther's shadowy source, who tells a subordinate that they will need more gamma bullets.  - Original Sin (comics)
  • Neptune and Nepgear learn from Umio; Uzume's sentient fish-monster friend, that Uzume has unique abilities that may trigger when the party needs them most, and that she is also an amnesiac who remembers nothing of her people or the calamity which destroyed her world but believes it to be the work of a giant known as Dark Purple.  - Megadimension Neptunia VII
  • As the Traveller progresses, they become aware that they, like Nada and Polo, are different from the other sentient beings in the galaxy, having some sense of the universe's construction and nature.  - No Man's Sky
  • The sentient magic merges with it to give itself physical form and lashes out at any who approach.  - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Ten
  • He is told by Harold Flanagan, the plants' elderly caretaker, that the plants are the actual emos, sentient beings who invade the bodies of humans.  - Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers
  • Centuries ago, a sentient evil force known as the Forbidden Arts entered Earth from the underworld, intent on destroying all of its rivals for magical power.  - The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale
  • The polyp forms into a 2-foot-tall sentient being similar in appearance to a demon or alien, and begins killing each person the creature sees as a source of stress with each day.  - Bad Milo!
  • Afterwards, we can see Homer walking in something that looks like bacon underwear, to be eaten, but he gets rescued by some hippie-looking Rigelians who believe that eating other sentient species is wrong.  - The Man Who Came to Be Dinner
  • In 2039, fleets of powerful sentient warships, armed with advanced technology and possibly 'alien' weaponry, mysteriously appear and devastate the world's naval forces.  - Arpeggio of Blue Steel
  • Although she is initially easily defeated, she finds a sentient sailor uniform that she names Senketsu, a which is completely made of Life Fibers and transforms her so that she can face Kiryuin and her trials and obstacles.  - Kill la Kill
  • He and his team work to create a sentient computer; he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence".  - Transcendence (2014 film)
  • As the story progresses, it deals with how humanity fares in a universe filled with other sentient races and without a military force to clash with them, since recruits from Earth were halted.  - The Human Division
  • The Moment is sentient and manifests itself as Rose Tyler.  - The Day of the Doctor
  • Simon is able to eventually snap out of his insanity, and a mysterious sentient mass of bubblegum—presumably one of Princess Bubblegum's ancestors—subsequently gives him a can of chicken soup.  - Simon & Marcy
  • B'Elanna Torres faces her Klingon heritage, while the Doctor confronts the rights of sentient holograms for the first time.  - Star Trek: Voyager (season 4)
  • Both have discovered portals, which allow one to pass from one Earth to another, parallel Earth, which is almost always similar but uninhabited by sentient beings.  - Hell's Gate (novel)
  • Ryan 129nc9s-1, a civil rights campaigner for AIs, is quoted saying, "It is fitting that the first act of sentient AI was an act of selflessness.  - Thomas Was Alone
  • The areanthrop seems to be a kind of cyborg: a sentient protoplasm which in the course of natural evolution built itself a "robotic suit", rather than developing a biological body.  - The Man from Mars
  • The story revolves around the protagonist, Vanessa, who lives in a 22nd-century world where robots with human memories are the only remaining sentient beings while living humans are killed by a mutant virus.  - Cytus
  • The unexpectedly sentient Ultron, believing he must eradicate humanity to save Earth, eliminates Stark'sIARVIS.  - Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • (voiced by Lisa Foiles), a sentient motorcycle that looks similar to light cycles from the Tron franchise.  - LocoCycle
  • They learn the core is sentient and wants revenge on the humans for Fodra's environmental decay.  - Tales of Graces
  • He eventually awakens at the Elite's base of operations, a sentient macroorganism called Bonnie, and is teleported back to Earth after he fails to convince the Elite that they don't have to kill to be heroes.  - Superman vs. The Elite
  • Max is startled by Álex's robotic cat and is frustrated when it does not listen to commands; Álex tells him that it is a "free robot," illegal programming that allows it to act as a sentient being.  - Eva (2011 film)
  • They are advised by Sanders; Towa’s magical sentient hourglass, that they are trapped in the Moebius Loop; a phenomenon which causes history to repeat itself regardless of past events, and that it is also the source of time magic power.  - Time and Eternity
  • First Person Singular is a being that absorbs other sentient life forms, eventually taking over everything on earth before stepping to the next.  - The Long Earth
  • This has led to the discovery that even though other sentient races exist, humans are the only ones to have developed interstellar travel.  - The Long Result
  • But Crookshank, now a sentient zombie challenges him to a fight.  - Monster Brawl
  • For centuries these phenomenal, sentient horses have been revered by the Sothoii.  - Wind Rider's Oath
  • Them's Fightin' Herds is a fighting game based on sentient four-legged hoofed creatures from the world of Fœnum, which is being threatened by the return of carnivorous beasts known as the Predators.  - Them's Fightin' Herds
  • However, she changes her mind when the hunt for an unknown force that keeps stealing celery from the colonists' greenhouses leads her to an encounter with a new sentient species: a treecat, a six-limbed arboreal mammal going (unknown to Stephanie) by the name of Climbs Quickly.  - A Beautiful Friendship (novel)
  • While searching for the captain, Master Chief encounters the Flood, a parasitic organism that infects sentient life.  - Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary
  • They ally with rebellious, sentient robots and venture to Dinopolis, the equivalent of Chronopolis in this timeline.  - Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes
  • They are sentient beings, artificial intelligences which they describe as "wild machines".  - Ash: A Secret History
  • A sentient and magician rock appears and is fascinated by everyone's genders, as it is unfamiliar with the concept.  - Neutopia (Futurama)
  • As a qualified cruiser pilot, Shebat returns to claim her sentient cruiser and her place in the Kerrion dynasty against danger and numerous obstacles.  - Cruiser Dreams
  • They are controlled by the asteroid, called House, which is sentient and able to possess other technology around it.  - The Doctor's Wife
  • The game begins with Dust awakening in a forest meadow, approached by a floating, sentient sword known as the Blade of Ahrah.  - Dust: An Elysian Tail
  • During the descent, Ly telepathically saves Rayman from his fall and creates him a sentient flying shell, which he uses to knock the Grolgoth into the lava.  - Rayman 2: The Great Escape
  • Their enemy is revealed to be the 11 Sol Masters, sentient programs designed to regenerate the Tri-Solar System after the Z-Master was eradicated.  - The King of Braves GaoGaiGar Final
  • Ooga explains that a group of sentient creatures known as the Bubble Breathing People have helped them.  - Pocket God (comics)
  • A woman and an engineered man are sent in a gigantic sentient starship to search space for a place to start a new life cycle.  - Xenogenesis (film)
  • Meanwhile, Nightcrawler betrays X-Force to get his revenge on Blob; he incapacitates EVA (now sentient after Fantomex's death) and Wolverine.  - Uncanny X-Force
  • From their sentient and eponymous mountain fort, they unleash crazy stunts on the public.  - Secret Mountain Fort Awesome
  • On Earth the megacorporation dataDyne has developed in secret dr Caroll, the world's first sentient AI computer.  - Perfect Dark (2010 video game)
  • Weir theorizes that this hellish dimension turned the Event Horizon into a sentient being, which torments its occupants in an attempt to kill them or lure them back through the portal.  - Event Horizon (film)
  • In the attic, Sarah Jane plans to use a piece of sentient concrete in order to talk to Luke in his dreams.  - The Nightmare Man (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
  • They also learn that the ship they are flying on is sentient and is called the "," a spaceship with artificial intelligence that is passed down through the planet's royal family.  - Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial
  • Some of them include non-human or non-Kryptonian members, such as Titano, protector of the Gorilla Galaxy; Superstar, a sentient star system, and Superego, a "good idea" who protects the realm of the collective unconscious.  - Superman: Grounded
  • Mattie is one of the few sentient automatons in the city, and was emancipated by her master, Loharri (one of the chief Mechanics) when she wished to study to become an Alchemist.  - The Alchemy of Stone
  • Maxis is revealed to have become a sentient artificial intelligence living within the systems of Griffin Station, and he guides his daughter and the three soldiers to launch three missiles at the Earth.  - Call of Duty: Black Ops
  • In the story's final part, Willow and Rack battle until he is defeated, and she in turn is guided by a sentient universe back to Earth—this time, with her own magic restored and the message that it is for all the world to share.  - Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Nine
  • Following the story of the sentient table Plank who mentioned how he, dr Dryden Darkwood, and their Trolluk servant Skudly had captured the players, the Mysterious Figure is revealed to be dr Dryden Darkwood as he tells the assembled villains that he has players in his dungeon.  - AdventureQuest Worlds
  • This story revolves around the life of a man who keeps his deceased father's still-beating and somehow sentient and mobile heart in a glass jar above his fireplace.  - In the Valley of the Kings
  • They build elaborate temples to their deities and are aware of the existence of Royal animals, counting on the sentient creatures to help guide their religious lives.  - Wolf Captured
  • Pocket Earth begins to break apart, and the six Legionnaires — the last remaining sentient beings in the cosmos — join hands as all reality disappears, fading into a white void.  - End of an Era (comics)
  • Assuming the first person nature of the narrative, it is implied that they have become sentient zombies.  - Dead Nation
  • At the start of the second series, Bigipedia acknowledges that the original Bigipedia, dubbed Bigipedia 10 suffered from "security and sentient omniscience issues" and apologises for, "the temporary cyber enslavement of 88% of mankind and the forming of a BigiHuman hybrid hivemind centred in the Philippines", in an incident they refer to as "The Glitch".  - Bigipedia
  • He believed that the Marshalls might be different from all the rest of the sentient humanoid clade, but was proven wrong.  - The Zarn
  • Additional cutscenes are also shown, giving the motivations and backstory behind the Shade bosses that are fought and showing them as sentient people trying to defend their friends against Nier.  - Nier (video game)
  • There is a vast variety of different species of sentient creatures, all of whom either have made alliances with the humans, or hunt them as a source of food.  - The Inferior
  • The planet's surface is infested by the parasitic Flood, who attack and assimilate any sentient life they encounter.  - Halo Wars
  • Before any other sentient beings existed in the universe, a race of beings calling themselves the Guardians of the Universe harnessed the power of the green element, the greatest power in the universe, to create the Green Lantern battery.  - Green Lantern: First Flight
  • There Yuu is saved by a seemingly, sentient robot called Gorg that the locals believe is the island’s protector.  - Giant Gorg
  • The machine sends sentient food to attack them.  - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film)
  • The team’s four scientists—two human males, one human female and one male thranx—initially discover four separate, unique sentient species.  - Quofum
  • dr Snaut tends to his burns and explains that the "visitors" began appearing after the scientists attracted the attention of Solaris, seemingly a sentient entity.  - Solaris (1972 film)
  • Sessile is a sentient tree, and in her roots another dimension resides.  - Castle Storm
  • This voice is that of a magical sentient record book called the Book of Prophecy.  - Avalon Code
  • The priest agrees but concurrently wishes to be lenient on a likewise sentient being, thus only offers Wang a charm meant to ward off demons.  - The Painted Skin
  • Humans especially are becoming the dominant species, but there are still powerful factions of dwarves, elves and other sentient species.  - Age of Fire
  • The heroic Yatterman duo make their entrance with Yatterwoof (Yamadera, voice), a sentient dog-shaped mecha and Toybotty (Takahashi, voice), their robot sidekick.  - Yatterman (film)
  • Occasionally, the Source Wall, as a sentient slab of concrete, appears vacationing across time and space in places where Ambush Bug passes.  - Ambush Bug: Year None
  • They finally discover the contamination: a sentient fungus, Globulous.  - Overlord: Minions
  • A sentient force of protostars, called 'Corona', endangers a team of Vulcan scientists.  - Corona (novel)
  • Meanwhile, Toroca makes an equally astounding discovery – another sentient species of saurian, inhabiting a small archipelago on the other side of the moon from the continent known as Land.  - Foreigner (Sawyer novel)
  • Garvey Limited, a company owned by his father, makes artificial limbs and other tools for the "Handicapped" species; sentient beings that evolved minds but with nothing that would serve as hands, like dolphins.  - The Handicapped
  • Ralph, weary of the whole thing, vows to stay locked in his room and not meet Mona again until after Halloween, much to the chagrin of his sentient and libidinous reflection (another side effect of the curse).  - Rockula
  • " The two factions of sentient machines work together to overthrow humanity and use Springfield's residents in a game of human foosball.  - Treehouse of Horror XIX
  • Events occurring in the comic strip are usually humorous and involve Pete and Peggy trying to make sense out of their living arrangements and finding time for each other, Elliot's own adventures with his best friend, next door neighbor Maria, and Pete trying to write on his computer, which is sentient and able to talk back to him as he deals with writer's block.  - Daddy's Home (comic strip)
  • The war in the north has interrupted the trade that is the lifeblood of Bingtown, and the Liveship Traders have fallen on hard times despite their magic sentient ships.  - Liveship Traders Trilogy
  • There were ten most powerful artefacts created not by mortal hands: The story went far into realms of fantasy, with presence of fantasy legendary creatures like sentient dragon-like beasts.  - Weapons of the Gods (comics)
  • The story follows a sentient war machine, Chalcedony, which is the lone survivor of a previous and highly apocalyptic war that has reduced the human population virtually to cavemen and hunter gatherers.  - Tideline (short story)
  • The Thing, actually a sentient computer from the original Nome starship, helps Masklin plan the escape from the doomed store.  - Truckers (1992 TV series)
  • The spheres, which he called Vitons, are sentient and mildly telepathic (they can read people’s minds if they get close enough); they also feed on the electrochemical energy of human emotions.  - Sinister Barrier
  • The lives of Louise Anderson and her daughters Aleph, Sefton and Moy become intertwined with a mystical character whose destiny both affects and informs the novel's central conflicts which include a murder that never actually occurs, sibling rivalry, love triangles, and one extremely sentient dog who dearly misses his owner.  - The Green Knight (novel)
  • She commences an unlikely romance with Saa, a sentient chunk of space-rock.  - Star Crossed (comics)
  • The Named are a group of prehistoric sentient large cats; they call themselves a clan and are led by the female Ratha.  - Ratha and Thistle-chaser
  • He is the planet’s sole sentient inhabitant and is guarded by two robots who also act as the fortress' keepers.  - Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity
  • The story revolves around James Gordon, Gotham City Police Department detective and grandson of Commissioner James Gordon, who takes on the identity of the Batman to free the city from a sentient computer virus crafted by the Joker, also now long dead, and to avenge the death of his partner Lena Schwartz.  - Batman: Digital Justice
  • The AI is sapient, but not sentient and is able to control both Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis within a short range.  - The Sky People
  • Since killing another sentient species is against their moral code, their agent decides that the most common and widely beloved non-sentient species on the planet, dogs, are to serve as the new vessels for his fellow aliens' minds.  - In the Doghouse
  • Picking up the object, Lovecraft is surrounded by a shifting, sentient unearthly colour.  - To Mars and Providence
  • He also believes that anything with a face is automatically sentient and can speak (and, for the purposes of the comic, they often do).  - Spot the Frog
  • In desperation, the records of the work of Gilgram Zinder (who had discovered the superimposed Markovian reality and built the sentient supercomputer Obie to manipulate it) are unsealed and his work is reproduced.  - The Return of Nathan Brazil
  • With the descendants of the Priests of Ys and the Goddesses present, Adol is lent their power before he faces his final opponent: the sentient form of the Black Pearl, Darm.  - Ys I & II
  • He discovers that there is a terrorist organization called the Evolutionist Front (EF) which is composed of Yeerks and their hosts who believe that forms of biological evolution and mutation should be explored instead of the enslavement of sentient species.  - The Familiar (novel)
  • Asura was aided by the Devalokans Inanna, Orifiel and Sakuya; his sentient sword Durandal; and his dragon companion Vrtra.  - Tales of Innocence
  • She recalls Aftran 942 and the Yeerk Peace Movement, and speculates that the morphing technology could give the Yeerks a means to abandon their policy of infesting sentient beings and instead morph new bodies.  - The Sacrifice (novel)
  • The story describes the existence and scientific discoveries of a race of sentient rock-dwelling liquid organisms.  - Critical Factor
  • Doctor Deimon's son, Rock, organizes an expedition to explore the new planet and discovers that there are two races of sentient beings living on Deimon.  - The Adventure of Rock
  • Sofia dies, and Suukmel stays in the N'Jarr valley with Ha'anala's children and Isaac, who thinks he has found proof of the existence of God in patterns of music created by overlapping the genomes of all three sentient species (this has been the mysterious project he has spent his life working on).  - Children of God (novel)
  • Tos'un also wields Khazid'hea, a sentient sword previously wielded by Catti-brie.  - The Orc King
  • Batz has an overgrown, sentient penis, which he tries to tame using strong medication, obscure mechanical contraptions, and copious amounts of porn.  - Bad Biology
  • He is admitted to a mental institution for it, where he consults a mad scientist, dr Reubens, who treats Danny with his Cognitive Regression Utilizing pSychiatric Heuristics (CRUSH) device, which has a sentient female persona.  - Crush (video game)
  • The story is broken up into eight differing sub-stories all involving a series of sentient mechanical puppets known as Vendémiaire (which is also the name of each).  - Vendémiaire no Tsubasa
  • As she embarks on each mission, she is confronted by powerful, sentient Twisted born from corrupted humans, later dubbed High Ones.  - The 3rd Birthday
  • After months of mapping the territory and observing the plants and animals, the robot encountered a sentient native.  - Close to Critical
  • He thinks the possibility exists that c'naatat is sentient and is communicating.  - Matriarch (novel)
  • The protagonist realizes that someone known as "Merlin" is supplying him with clues about a program called "Prometheus", a sentient AI which will try to take over the world once programmers finish building interfaces which will allow it to control every electronic device in the world.  - The Tipping Point (The Outer Limits)
  • She commands the power of lightning and controls strange metal animate Things, living, metallic, geometric forms; an entire city of sentient cubes, globes and tetrahedrons, capable of joining together and forming colossal shapes, and wielding death rays and other armaments of destruction.  - The Metal Monster
  • Rumo, with his newfound two-pronged sentient knife Dandelion, he sets out into Nurn Forest to singlehandedly kill the Monsters, obtain a Nurn Leaf, and carve a casket for Rala.  - Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures
  • Racing through the marsh ahead of military patrols, Ela comes into contact with the Roi Nuoc, a group of children under the care of a nearly sentient computer program named Mother Tiger.  - Limit of Vision
  • Zinder and Yulin construct "Obie", a sentient supercomputer, building it in Markovian fashion directly into Trelig's resort planetoid, New Pompeii.  - Exiles at the Well of Souls
  • During a task force meeting, Sigur Johanson finally announces his hypothesis: the phenomena are intentional attacks by an unknown sentient species from the depths of the oceans; he states that this is the only logical conclusion, since the attacks are outside the power of any human agency and cannot be a natural phenomenon.  - The Swarm (Schätzing novel)
  • Along the way, she picks up allies such as Emporio Alniño, a boy whose late mother gave birth to him in prison, Foo Fighters, a Stand of sentient plankton that took the form of a dead prisoner, and the convicted murderer, Narciso Anasui (user of Diver Down), who likes to take things apart and put the pieces side by side (he was imprisoned for doing the same to his girlfriend and her paramour).  - Stone Ocean
  • Walking back to the forest through "Nomansland" – the lethal interface-area between land and sea, Gren is waylaid by a "morel", a sentient fungus which attaches itself to his head and forms a symbiotic relationship.  - Hothouse (novel)
  • He suggests they seek out the Moon People, telling them to visit a sentient tree called Treant in nearby Matataki Village.  - Dark Cloud
  • “McGuffin” is a real, sentient character, the authors address him as a “he” and follow “his” stream of consciousness throughout the book, as he reasons about the rough way the Italians are treating him.  - 54 (novel)
  • The Mazone, a race of sentient plants, hatch a plot to seize Earth after their own planet is destroyed.  - Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years
  • Growing up on a space lifeboat with only Cybot (a simple but sentient and caring robotic nurse) to care for him, he eventually arrives on Aquablue, a planet almost totally covered by water.  - Aquablue
  • But, during an attempted escape by the inmates in the asylum, he is captured and thrown into a great pit, at the bottom of which lie vast, sentient computers who once built Metropolis and still sustain it and watch over humanity.  - Batman: Nosferatu
  • At home, Cassie berates herself for wasting her team's time, but then realizes the significance of the Andalite toilet; it's proof that sentient life exists beyond Earth, and that Visser Three needed humanity to know as little as possible in order for the invasion to continue to run smoothly.  - The Unknown (novel)
  • The story expands to include a formidable nanotechnology, a sentient and telepathic moss that can overwhelm a human being, and members of a mysterious species who are never seen outside their personal robot craft.  - Hunted (Gardner novel)
  • Tholan outlines a number of the unique things about humans; they are the only sentient race to eat meat, they lack any sort of telepathic ability, and to the Smollett's great surprise, they are the only race to grow old and die.  - Hostess (short story)
  • The third fleet was composed of sentient machines.  - Northworld
  • The Pnume are the sentient native race of Tschai.  - The Pnume
  • Foreseeing the possibility that the next sentient species to arise could suffer the same fate, they built the ship to save a sample of that race before it wiped itself out, and protect it until it could repopulate the Earth.  - The Origin of Species (The Outer Limits)
  • Thanks to the increasing power of the Net sentient 'ghosts' of media images have crossed from Earth 2 to Earth 1, and the novel follows the affair between human Tarquin and Dahlia Chan, their efforts to rescue Jaruwan and their ultimate quest for the freedom of mythical Cythera.  - Cythera (novel)
  • Repairing the generators will require weeks, and morale is already low when the ship's biologist hypothesizes that the sphere is actually a sentient entity which is actively resisting them.  - Entity (short story)
  • The one thing this civilization left behind was MILO - the sentient artificial intelligence designed to act as caretaker for their planet while they were gone and guard for the Keys to the Gateway.  - Milo (video game)
  • A long time ago, an ordinary sword was soaked with blood through the endless battles of its era, causing the sword to be corrupted and becoming sentient by its own, which earned it the name "Soul Edge".  - Soulcalibur (series)
  • They establish a detective agency and, together with former criminal and a sentient braid of hair called , solve crimes to feed Neuro's appetite.  - Neuro: Supernatural Detective
  • The dragons of the story are portrayed as sentient and intelligent, capable of logical thought and human speech.  - Black Powder War
  • They had always interfered with the evolution of sentient species they had discovered, believing they could not be trusted to evolve on their own.  - The Last Theorem
  • Upon finding that its programming is fully sentient and in distress, the Doctor asks that the crew rescue it and return it to its people.  - Warhead (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • Ben travels to the Fire Springs to confront Strabo, and is surprised to find the dragon to be sentient and rather well-spoken, if still vicious.  - Magic Kingdom for Sale–Sold!
  • Later Ignatz gives a present of a sentient phallus called Mr Rochester to Phin's grandmother, as he intends to infect her with the doll plague the next day.  - Dead Boys (novel)
  • This releases an ancient being composed of pure energy, leftover from a war involving sentient machines in a long-lost civilization, which "possesses" a bulldozer being used by the construction crew.  - Killdozer! (short story)
  • Back on Earth, Gregory and Jessica's father begin running tests on the spores, and soon discover them to be a highly infectious contagion able to induce and exacerbate hatred and destructive impulses in any sentient being they contaminate.  - The Return of Optimus Prime
  • Janeway surmises that the energy field was somehow sentient and trying to communicate with them – her theory is backed by the fact that the entire ship's memory had been downloaded and that 20 million gigaquads of data have been uploaded to Voyager's computer.  - Twisted (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • For their good work, Alicia is issued a full pardon, Megarea is granted her freedom as a sentient entity (Strictly speaking she belonged to the Fleet who had constructed her), and even Tisiphone is awarded a (secret) commendation.  - Path of the Fury
  • The head of the team working on this treatment, Doctor Atsuko Chiba, begins using the machine illegally to help psychiatric patients outside the research facility, using her alter-ego "Paprika", a sentient persona that she assumes in the dream world.  - Paprika (2006 film)
  • On the way, Alph, Theo, Leon, Cecille, Saki and Nikolai learn that the planet is itself a sentient being: it is able to sense danger to itself, hence the recent earthquakes.  - Luminous Arc
  • Fury enlists the aid of Reed Richards and Professor Xavier once Silver Surfer arrives to "herald" the approach of Gah Lak Tus, who is discovered to be a swarm of thousands of sentient ships stretched long and within only a week's journey from Earth.  - Ultimate Galactus Trilogy
  • Davidge and Zammis form a very close bond and the young Drac loves Davidge as any sentient child loves a parent, despite referring to Davidge as "uncle".  - Enemy Mine (film)
  • Marayna, hence, reveals herself to be a sentient being who can escape the confines of the holodeck—and is no ordinary holodeck character.  - Alter Ego (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • During their flight through space, the appliances run across a pack of sentient balloons who have been let go by human hands and now float endlessly through the cosmos ("Floating").  - The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars
  • He is a man with a mission to accomplish and a vow to fulfill, his only companionship lying in his sentient long-sword Ragnarok.  - Sword of the Dark Ones
  • What remains now is for the weapon to be imbued with the ancient, sentient power that resides in the young boy Jeffy and then, finally, for the power-sword itself to choose a new champion whom it deems worthy of engaging the Powers of Darkness as embodied in the evil Rasalom.  - Nightworld (novel)
  • Cranston refuses but is silenced by the Phurba (Frank Welker), a mystical sentient flying dagger.  - The Shadow (1994 film)
  • Davies and Shandy join him, fighting through a hostile, sentient jungle on the way.  - On Stranger Tides
  • Humans have been colonizing the 500 light-years around Earth for a few thousand years, and have never run into a sentient alien species — until now.  - Learning the World
  • In the series, it is revealed that Jumanji is sentient to a degree and on occasion has sucked in Judy and Peter if they make it "angry".  - Jumanji (TV series)
  • In conversation he realises that Zanna is the "Shwazzy," a prophesied chosen one who is destined to save UnLondon from the Smog – an evil, sentient cloud of pollution.  - Un Lun Dun
  • Colonization has become stymied by the native inhabitants (loudies), who are apparently sentient bubbles that float around the landscape, getting in the way of human progress.  - When the People Fell
  • During his investigation of the hyperspace collapse, a new threat becomes apparent - an ancient race called the Eternal Ones that consume the energy of all sentient beings once an eon are near to returning.  - Star Control 3
  • The Sentience which possesses him is barely sentient at all, and knows only an all-encompassing hunger.  - Nightshade (Doctor Who)
  • Re-supplied they return to the skies and the Doctor parachutes down to the ground (striking up a conversation with the parachute who is actually sentient and exploring apple trees as a hobby).  - The Also People
  • Logan shows Jean the truth of Beast's history: John Sublime was a host for the Sublime bacteria, a sentient lifeform billions of years old that infected countless species and sowed aggression and conflict to ensure its genetic dominance, so that no one species would ever be hardy enough to outlast it.  - Here Comes Tomorrow
  • Their birth rate being the lowest of any sentient species in that area of the galaxy, they decided to use genetically modified human embryos to create Pitar fetuses.  - Dirge (novel)
  • Leaving behind his mechanized suit, Evan is for the first time in his life exposed to a hostile environment without the protection of his suit and must rely on the unexpected help of the native sentient life to survive.  - Sentenced to Prism
  • On Horseye there are three separate sentient species, which all have different concerns about their planet.  - Voyage to the City of the Dead
  • Unity Director William Barris discovers that the Vulcan 3 computer has become sentient and is considering drastic action to combat what it sees as a threat to itself.  - Vulcan's Hammer
  • It is revealed that in Charlotte's future, humanity alone or with other sentient allies, perhaps a faction of the Firstborn, calls itself the Lastborn as they are at war with the Firstborn.  - Firstborn (Clarke and Baxter novel)
  • Once again, it is up to Roger alone to stop Vohaul's evil plan: to eradicate sentient life from Xenon by launching millions of cloned insurance salesmen at the planet.  - Space Quest II
  • In a world of sentient animals and humans, the hardheaded tortoise wizard Clothahump searches across the dimensions for another kind of wizard to help defeat the looming threat posed by the armies of the Plated Folk.  - Spellsinger (novel)
  • The native sentient species of Jast is the Vssey, a single-sex species that resembles and acts much like a giant mobile mushroom.  - Sliding Scales
  • Once again Flinx is saved at the last minute by the sentient plants from Midworld on board his ship; they strangle the two initiates in the Order of Null allowing Flinx to escape his drug-induced bondage.  - Flinx's Folly
  • Gaining inside the building during the night, the elevator reveals its sentient mind as it operates properly until he tries to access the shaft at which point it crushes the chair he was using.  - De Lift
  • Not knowing what that is, Maia delves into the Adytum of the Unseen, and finds Iari who turns out to be a sentient weapon machine.  - Summoner 2
  • With little time to spare, the DonPachi Corps are reactivated, with enough time to build only two fighters; nevertheless, to each was bestowed the assistance of an Element Doll, highly evolved sentient droids (apparently widespread in human society by then, and treated as little more than slaves) capable of providing tactical data and enhancing the craft's own capabilities.  - DoDonPachi DaiOuJou
  • His probing is caught by a sentient race of slow-moving creatures who inform a Heechee patrol, sent out of their black hole to observe the state of the galaxy.  - Heechee Rendezvous
  • Previously thinking that bums were no longer sentient creatures, the two discover their bums staring into the sunset, making out.  - Bumageddon: The Final Pongflict
  • The two fall miles below into the Underland: a subterranean world home to humans with near-translucent skin; giant sentient bats, rodents, and insects; and an escalating conflict between the human city of Regalia and the rats' King Gorger.  - Gregor the Overlander
  • Another change from the films was that the toxic waste also mutated his mop into a sentient being that would sometimes battle enemies by itself or motion to Toxie ideas on how to solve problems.  - Toxic Crusaders
  • At the end, he successfully delivers a sentient telepathic Unborn (seen in the other novel of the series Ambulance Ship) from its violent non-sentient Protector.  - Star Healer
  • He is returning with a sentient protoplasmic alien being, a "Friend from Frolix 8", (known as Morgo Rahn Wilc) to fight for the "Old Men" (non-telepathic humanity, also incapable of enhanced cognitive abilities).  - Our Friends from Frolix 8
  • Their quest for him leads them once again into the path of Cerebro, the mutant detecting device used by the X-Men which has now gained sentient life.  - The Hunt for Xavier
  • Every form has a sentient representative: animal, plant, and mineral.  - Dark Is the Sun
  • When she reforms, it is found that her body has been taken over by two Rynax, who are actually sentient life forms and not just a form of energy.  - Kurau Phantom Memory
  • The linchpin of the barrier that keeps the demons in the Forbidding is the Ellcrys, a sentient tree that resides in the Cintra.  - Armageddon's Children
  • The pills are consumed by the residents, and produce liquefying flesh, elongated tongues, exploding stomachs, exploding penises, imploding heads, monstrous births, tentacles growing out of the face, living mucus, sentient placentas, and other gruesome mutations.  - Body Melt
  • With the Earth now populated by varyingly dormant, partially sentient war machines, humanity lives offworld.  - Newton's Wake: A Space Opera
  • Despite the setback, the Wanderer meets with Eden who is revealed to be a sentient ZAX series supercomputer that took control of the Enclave after President Dick Richardson was killed off the West Coast.  - Fallout 3
  • His uncontrollable falling leads the Stair to spit him out somewhere completely unexpected - he is under attack from sentient insects somewhere in the Secondary Realms, and is unable to concentrate to use the Fifth Key to escape.  - Lord Sunday
  • Years of build-up and exploration bears fruit: A habitable, rich and lush world with no sentient race is found.  - Enemy Nations
  • In the book a sentient and powerful asteroid arrives in the solar system's asteroid belt after countless aeons of wandering interstellar space.  - Rogue in Space
  • Finally, the player has to decide what to do with the Throne of Agony, a sentient throne of darkness, as it could be either used, or destroyed.  - Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony
  • The saucer does make a controlled crash, under conditions not conducive to its recovery, on a planet with a primitive sentient culture that could one day discover the saucer at the bottom of its ocean, depending on how durable Starfleet metals are.  - Rogue Saucer
  • Captured by a demon, the imprisoned princess discovers that the dungeon she is held in is actually a sentient elemental creature named Wally.  - Narbacular Drop
  • There is Galeon, a sentient mechanical lion of alien design.  - The King of Braves GaoGaiGar
  • Then, Pell's World is found to be not only habitable, but already populated by the gentle, sentient (if technologically backward) Hisa.  - Downbelow Station
  • As one scientist after another is consumed and turned into nuclear 'zombies' by what seems to be a form of sentient particles from another dimension, the reaction grows towards a terrible climax, and the survivors fear they may be powerless to stop it.  - Production and Decay of Strange Particles
  • He uses this to neutralize people's joyous moments and if this includes removing the existence of sentient beings, so be it.  - The Dastard
  • The module is a dungeon crawl, precipitated by the theft of three magical, sentient weapons: a trident named Wave, a war hammer named Whelm, and a sword named Blackrazor (all three were introduced in this adventure).  - White Plume Mountain
  • Benjamin convinces Pindar-2 and Chaucer - by treating the sentient AIs as his equals - that he wants their boss to be taken alive and unharmed, and that treatment will actually be beneficial to Haas.  - A Miracle of Science
  • There he becomes familiar with a country inhabited by sentient monkeys, and after a few years he becomes emperor of the land of Quama, inhabited by the only creatures in the Underworld that look like humans.  - Niels Klim's Underground Travels
  • The story suggests that it has a psychic nature as it reacts to sentient thoughts and emotions, even those of robot's EPUs.  - Cubix
  • A small sentient alien entity of barbs and hooks, named Firx, is attached to his liver to encourage his "unremitting loyalty, zeal and singleness of purpose,".  - The Eyes of the Overworld
  • 9 is a sentient rag doll who appears to be the last of his kind, living in the ruins of a decaying, post-apocalyptic Earth.  - 9 (2005 film)
  • Facing extinction, the Thrint decided to take their enemies with them by constructing a telepathic amplifier powerful enough to command all sentient species in the galaxy to commit suicide.  - World of Ptavvs
  • Nomad uses his hydro-thrusters to maneuver and encounters hostile sentient aliens.  - Crysis (video game)
  • Meanwhile, the team on the quest to find the Flutter Ponies press on through Shadow Forest, where they are attacked by sentient tress which fire sharp branches at them.  - My Little Pony: The Movie
  • Meanwhile, Grakker and Phil (the sentient plant who serves as the Ferkel's science officer) leave to reestablish contact with the Galactic Patrol, and Ah-Rit heads off with Tar Gibbons in an attempt to reclaim Rod's body from BKR.  - Aliens Stole My Body
  • On this particular mission, Elbrun's abilities are needed to try to coax a giant sentient spaceship, code named "Tin Man," away from a star that is about to go supernova.  - Tin Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • After being held captive and tortured for several days, Althor and Tina escape with the help of his sentient Jag fighter.  - Catch the Lightning
  • Such a method, while computed to be the only way to start the war, and thus prevent the destruction of advanced space civilizations, is nevertheless completely unacceptable to the Hurrians, a race of absolute pacifists who cannot envision killing a sentient being.  - The Gentle Vultures
  • The blast transports him and American runaway Annie West into a vertical world consisting of a seemingly infinite wall populated by crumbling civilisations, weird creatures, and sentient dragons.  - Stone and Sky
  • The Queen destroys several of her own ships, each housing thousands of lives, because only a handful within are "offline" and therefore suspected of being the newly sentient drones from the dream realm.  - Unimatrix Zero
  • In the far future, the Earth's magnetic field has cut out, and humanity has abandoned the planet, leaving it to multiple species of sentient robots, which after centuries of evolving look (and in some cases behave) similar to the now extinct terrestrial animals.  - Metalzoic
  • In the third plotline the Skinks visit a world only partially explored by humans and find a pre-technological sentient race.  - Hangfire
  • Though cut off from the surface world, Saul is elated, believing he will find evidence beneath the surface for his theory that there are sentient rocks descended from a huge "mother rock".  - Saul of the Mole Men
  • The viewer also learns of the Graske's ultimate intention to replace every living, sentient creature in the universe with one of their doubles.  - Attack of the Graske
  • The exploration fleet reported sentient structures which appear to have been annihilated eons ago, scattered all over the galaxy.  - Metal Fatigue (video game)
  • While wandering various networks, the Puppet Master became sentient and began to contemplate its existence; it was troubled by the fact that it could not reproduce or die.  - Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
  • After Starfire and Strange lay his body to rest and leave, Animal Man awakens to find the aliens who gave him his powers standing over him, upgrading his powers to allow him to gain powers from any sentient being in the universe.  - 52 (comics)
  • The Amplitur are attempting to join all sentient species in what they call the "Purpose", an alliance which they "guide" to some unknown (even to them) end.  - The Damned Trilogy
  • The crew arrives aboard the Earth*Star Voyager, and are met by Captain Forbes (the commanding officer), Brody (the ship's resident physical fitness instructor - crew members are required to engage in a physical fitness program), and 'Priscilla', the sentient supercomputer that is the primary logic circuit for the vessel - who has seemingly developed a crush upon Huxley.  - Earth Star Voyager
  • During this same time, the failed wizard Akar Kessel, left to die in the Spine of the World, found Crenshinibon, the Crystal Shard, a magical, sentient crystal with the ability to lend power to its wielder, make tower sanctuaries in the likeness of itself, and insinuate itself into the minds of others, including that of its wielder.  - The Crystal Shard
  • Or, could he be the sentient consciousness of "the beast" who decided to allow Voyager to go on its way.  - Bliss (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • Jones returns to the lab, where a sentient computer (Joe Morton) explains that when he pressed the button, he shut down an array containing imprisoned ghosts, and he must now set about recapturing them.  - Ghosthunter
  • Meanwhile, Edie Keller's conjoined twin brother Bill, a sentient fetus within her body, has been yearning for an independent existence.  - Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb
  • Mars boasts insectoid life, the sentient and empathic 'papoola', while Ganymede is inhabited by multicellular primitive life forms.  - The Simulacra
  • While on Vulcan, the crew discovers (mostly through detective work by dr Leonard McCoy, using the aid of a sentient computer named "Moira" resident on the Enterprise) that the secession movement was sparked at least partially by T'Pring, Spock's childhood bride-mate, who has nursed a grudge against Kirk and Spock for years for the deception involved in their participation in the koon-ut-kalifee ceremony (described in the original series episode "Amok Time").  - Spock's World
  • Though Data moves to comply, Picard orders him to stand fast and reminds him and the Admiral that Data is a sentient life form with defined rights and cannot be ordered to turn what is in essence his child over to the state.  - The Offspring (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • He is joined by Guillo, who, while resembling a Paramachina, or mechanized puppet, is actually sentient and animated by magic.  - Baten Kaitos Origins
  • Eventually, it is revealed that in this version of the Fermi paradox, sentient life is endemic throughout the universe; Humanity simply hadn't noticed it earlier because the universe destroys any race before it becomes advanced enough to develop a Type IV civilisation.  - Manifold: Space
  • The Empire's propaganda further escalated xenophobic and anti-alien sentiments on human-dominant worlds; under Emperor Palpatine's rule, many species of sentient non-humans were systematically denied basic civil rights, were barred from entry into public service job sectors, and were often either segregated, enslaved or outright massacred.  - Young Jedi Knights
  • This causes an uproar, as bonding with a sentient member of a species is the most atrocious act among the Yherjak, and also that Michelle committed suicide.  - Agent to the Stars
  • Fenella Fielding She is the sentient info-mesh in charge of handling Vita-01’s massive network systems.  - Martian Gothic: Unification
  • The player follows him and is transported to the mysterious Tonetown world alongside Spot, discovering that "Spot", in this world, is not only sentient and capable of speech but is actually a celebrity resident named "Ennio the Legend".  - Tass Times in Tonetown
  • Rick awakens in a dungeon under the mansion having been resurrected thanks to the influence of the "Terror Mask", or in some versions, the "Hell Mask", a Mayan sacrificial artifact from West's house which is capable of sentient thought.  - Splatterhouse
  • However, the sword starts talking to him, calling itself Dymlos and claiming to be a sentient Swordian from the Aeth'er Wars.  - Tales of Destiny
  • His efforts reveal that the craze for the dessert is far deadlier and much more evil than anyone had believed: The Stuff is actually a living, parasitic, and possibly sentient organism that gradually takes over the brain—mutating those who eat it into bizarre zombie-like creatures, before consuming them from the inside and leaving them literal empty shells of their former selves.  - The Stuff
  • A meteorite housing a malevolent, sentient extraterrestrial parasite crashes into the town of Wheelsy, South Carolina.  - Slither (2006 film)
  • They turn out to be like sentient beings that see him as their God and provoke him to self-induce a trance-like state using a mixture of substances in order to communicate with him directly.  - Bloodshot (comics)
  • They are sentient machines, yet there are times when they are piloted by Shadow Angels.  - Genesis of Aquarion
  • Jordan decides that rather than exterminate an alien species – particularly since the xenomorphs appear to be only the interstellar equivalent of sharks; the perfect killing machine without actually being evil – they would transport the xenomorphs to the sentient Green Lantern planet Mogo, where they can not harm anyone.  - Green Lantern Versus Aliens
  • They succeeded and created a sentient race known as Enterrans (a race of engineered Earthlings) where the Enterrans are based on humans, insects, reptiles, birds, sea creatures, wild beasts, and phantom beasts.  - Shinzo
  • His only obstacle is the 1892 firehouse inhabited by "Grandma" Steinmetz (Helen Hayes), widow of its former owner, Fire Captain Steinmetz, and aunt of mechanic Tennessee Steinmetz; her displaced neighbor, flight attendant Nicole Harris (Stefanie Powers); and their sentient machines: a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle known as Herbie, "the Love Bug;" an early 19th-century orchestrion that plays on its own; and a retired cable car from the defunct Clay Street Line, known as "Old No.  - Herbie Rides Again
  • In the end, the Doctor realizes they simply wanted him for his singing, not who he is as a sentient entity.  - Virtuoso (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • Sabre is taken to a Synchronization Center, where, displayed before a gathering of scientists and officials, his memories are methodically wiped clean as he is forced to view Melissa, in a brothel suite, being groped and violated by Clarence, a sentient skeleton, and Grouse.  - Sabre (Eclipse Comics)
  • Dante's Romanov genes bond him with a sentient "Weapons Crest," a biological weapon which gives superhuman abilities—in Dante's case, the ability to extend bio-blades from his hands and hack into computer systems.  - Nikolai Dante
  • However, he does not dispose of the genetic material and as a result, Buddy becomes a sentient being when a hair from a Basset Hound who was Sherman's test subject finds its way into it and causes such a reaction.  - Nutty Professor II: The Klumps
  • The two probes are also equipped with a holographic message that will be projected to any sentient life found on Darwin.  - Alien Planet
  • The Hegemony's interest in Tiamat has to do with the "mers", sentient sea-dwelling creatures whose blood provides the "water of life", a virus that halts the aging process.  - The Snow Queen (Vinge novel)
  • It is revealed that the "sanctuary" (which is referred to as Avalon) is in fact Cable's former base of operations Graymalkin (now retrofitted with Shiar technology), and the "greater power" to be the mutant Magneto, who was presumed dead after the fall of Asteroid Cable teleports X-Force away from Avalon using the station's bodyslide technology, while he retrieves the sentient computer program Professor from the central core and activate the auto-destruct function.  - Fatal Attractions (comics)
  • In return, she allows him to take refuge with her mercenary "deCom" crew as they head out to decommission sentient military hardware that has run amok on a nearby continent.  - Woken Furies
  • The Shadowed One attempts to execute Zaktan for his treacherous leadership of the plot, but his disintegration vision instead transforms Zaktan into a mass of sentient protodites.  - Bionicle Legends
  • He is a seaweedlike being like a sentient poisonous fungus.  - The Sun Makers
  • They have created hundreds of sentient races, interlocked in a culture of breathtaking complexity and beauty.  - Anvil of Stars
  • According to records, no one who has found the Omniverbum, or its sentient affix "Ish", has lived to tell of it.  - ...ish (audio drama)
  • As the damage to the fountain is repaired, dr Farallan admits she is still not sure if the Exocomps are sentient but promises not to abuse them again.  - The Quality of Life (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • Falling to the sentient planet (and Green Lantern Corps member) Mogo, they fight.  - Infinite Crisis
  • The remaining delegates grant the heroes entry to the Oracle, who is actually a sentient computer named Melian, created by the Ancients.  - Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven
  • The novel deals with a government installation at Blind Lake, Minnesota, where scientists observe sentient life on a planet 51 light-years away, using telescopes powered by quantum computers that have advanced beyond human understanding.  - Blind Lake (novel)
  • The players assume the role of a soldier in flying power-armor assigned to destroy an army of malfunctioning defense robots commanded by a sentient bio-computer in its sudden war against humanity.  - X-Zone
  • It is stressed repeatedly in the novels that though both forces require control over all of existence, the value of individual worlds is negligible—but it is also stated that Earth is of greater-than-average value as it is a world containing sentient life.  - Repairman Jack
  • The great sentient machines have prospered in the eternal winter.  - Too Human
  • The wizard is accompanied by a pair of magical sentient gloves to aid him in creating strange potions and spells.  - Glover (video game)
  • Also present are the Face of Boe, the Moxx of Balhoon, the Adherents of the Repeated Meme, and sentient and mobile trees from the Forest of Cheem.  - The End of the World (Doctor Who)
  • The Noah free Allen from the Apocryphos, a sentient Innocence which guards the Heart; the Order revokes Allen's privileges as an exorcist, and treats him as a Noah.  - D.Gray-man
  • Superman and Green Lantern encounter the power that killed them - the sentient Green Flame, the remains of the magic energies of Maltus.  - Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame
  • In between, it chronicles a slow but (despite some set-backs) steady conquest of the entire galaxy - inhabited by thousands of sentient alien races, which are overpowered and oppressed using whatever tool it takes: economic pressure, diplomatic finesse, or simple military power.  - Birthright: The Book of Man
  • A scientist creates a theme park that is related to the events of his youth, whereupon a sentient artificial intelligence imprisons him within it, as a youth.  - The Owl in Daylight
  • Professor Challenger, with the help of Mr Edward Malone and Mr Peerless Jones, drills into the earth until he reaches the mantle, convinced that it is a sentient being, akin to an echinus, and that by doing so he will be the first person to alert it to mankind's presence.  - When the World Screamed
  • In the tenth and final book, Bobby finally learns about the true nature of Travelers: that he and the others are not actually humans at all, but rather, human-shaped guardian spirits created by something called Solara: the accumulated living energy of all positive sentient knowledge and creativity.  - Pendragon: Journal of an Adventure through Time and Space
  • The Archive was built by a coalition of all the sentient beings in the Universe in an effort to save consciousness from death.  - Darwinia (novel)
  • When three generations of a ship's owners die on board, a liveship "quickens", meaning that the ship awakens and becomes a sentient being with all the memories of the ancestors who have contributed to the ship's quickening.  - Ship of Magic
  • While explaining tidal forces to the Puppeteer, Schaeffer realizes the alien had no knowledge of tides, something that would be elementary for a sentient species living on a world with a moon.  - Neutron Star (short story)
  • During this, Honor learns of a long-standing drug ring catering to the Medusan aborigines, a three-legged sentient species at a Bronze Age technology level.  - On Basilisk Station
  • An artificially intelligent defense system called "KAOS", which had been used to end the war, becomes sentient and builds an army to wipe out humanity.  - Red Alarm
  • However, Ben's friends Stephanie and Newton have sent Johnny 5, a human-sized sentient robot whom Ben helped to create.  - Short Circuit 2
  • They encountered many more strange - and frightened - Rahi, as well as a few more new enemies: the horrible hybrid Rahi known as the Rahi Nui, a being made entirely out of energized Protodermis, and the Karzahni: the sentient predecessor of the Morbuzakh.  - Bionicle Adventures
  • Appearing as the player's tutors in the game are the sentient twin witch doctor masks Aku Aku and Uka Uka, both of whom give hints that help the player develop their racing skills.  - Crash Team Racing
  • The Flood, which spread through infestation of sentient life, overran much of the Milky Way Galaxy.  - Halo (series)
  • Although the Soviet ship, the Leonov, will be ready before the American spacecraft Discovery Two, the Soviets need American astronauts to help board the Discovery and investigate the malfunction of the ship's sentient computer, HAL 9000, which caused the disaster.  - 2010 (film)
  • Carter enters the Enchanted Wood and meets the zoogs, a race of predatory and sentient rodents.  - The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
  • While studying the diary of his grandfather, Professor Gerald Robotnik, dr Eggman learns of an artifact Gerald had unearthed: a 4000-year-old sentient weapon called the Gizoid created by an ancient civilization.  - Sonic Battle
  • Master Tang is skeptical at first, but after seeing The Chosen One's mark (his sentient tongue, which he names Tonguey), he allows him to train at his dojo.  - Kung Pow! Enter the Fist
  • Eventually, of course, they encounter the humanoids, whom they regard as barely sentient animals.  - West of Eden
  • Four different sentient species populate Twinsun; Quetchs are aesthetically similar to humans except that they all possess ponytails, Spheros are short spherical creatures, Grobos resemble anthropomorphic elephants, and Rabbibunnies are tall, thin humanoid rabbits.  - Little Big Adventure
  • At the crash site they find a local sentient alien has entered their vessel.  - Eden (Lem novel)
  • The Sleeping God was originally created to remove its creator race from the current universe, and was built to help sentient entities.  - The Naked God
  • The Kiint ambassador reveals that, many thousands of years ago, they also suffered a 'possession crisis', as the secret of death is one that is eventually discovered by all sentient races.  - The Neutronium Alchemist
  • They eventually arrive at "Wishing Waters", the location of the secret base, which is revealed to be a giant robot factory underneath a water park controlled by a sentient supercomputer.  - Rocket Power: Beach Bandits
  • Satellites left behind monitor the conquered planets and reveal that Bugs regard other sentient life forms as food sources; indeed the Bugs prefer to consume their prey alive.  - In Death Ground
  • Edmund Gunderson was the Terran administrator of the colony world of Belzagor, and he returns to it after it has gained independence, feeling a sense of guilt for the way he has treated its dominant species, the elephant-like nildoror, whose animalistic appearance had kept Gunderson from taking them seriously as sentient beings.  - Downward to the Earth
  • Marduk, an extremely humid and rainy planet over much of its surface, is home to a species of four-armed sentient amphibians referred to as Mardukans (or unofficially, scummies), as well as a large number of generally hostile lifeforms of a very active biota.  - Empire of Man
  • However, once aboard he travels into deep space where he comes into contact with a sentient starship.  - Tin Woodman (novel)
  • The miners fear that thousands of Horta could hatch and ravage their colony, but Kirk convinces them that the Horta are sentient and only want to be left alone.  - The Devil in the Dark
  • The Legends of Dune prequel trilogy (2002–2004) by Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson presents the Jihad as a war between humans and the sentient machines they had created, who rise up and nearly destroy humanity.  - Dune (franchise)
  • After killing one of the slakemoths, with the aid of a sentient machine known as the Construct Council, Isaac and his friends destroy the eggs that they have laid before laying a trap for the remainder.  - Perdido Street Station
  • The Cybrids are a race of sentient robots responsible for the first Earthsiege.  - Starsiege
  • His puppet named Pinocchio (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is soon mysteriously come to life by a magical sentient force after his creation.  - The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996 film)
  • Rationalizing that evil will continue to exist while sentient life exists, the Goddess uses the Egg to rewrite existence so that the universe is completely without sentient life.  - Infinity Crusade
  • The dwarf's replies act as an exhaustive list of the sentient mythological entities among men, Æsir, Vanir, giants, dwarves and elves.  - Alvíssmál
  • Dweller societies try not to get involved with "Quick" species, those with sentient beings who experience life at around the speed human beings experience it.  - The Algebraist
  • He activates it to find the artificial sentient Professor James Moriarty (Daniel Davis) character projected into the Holodeck, who appears to have memory since his creation ("Elementary, Dear Data"), including during the period while he was inactive (a feat Picard claims to be impossible).  - Ship in a Bottle (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • D is the host for a sentient symbiote, Left Hand, a wise-cracking human face residing in his left palm, who can suck in massive amounts of matter through a wind void or vacuum tunnel.  - Vampire Hunter D
  • Two beings that appear to be sentient stuffed toy cats, Luna and Artemis, serve as the girls' mentors.  - Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (live-action series)
  • Now all-powerful and desperate to win the affections of Death, Thanos decides to offer the entity a gift of love by completing a task she had given him, erasing half the sentient life in the universe (including most of the X-Men, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four), quite literally with a snap of his fingers.  - The Infinity Gauntlet
  • The myrmicats (named by Richard Wakefield, a combination of the Greek word for ant, myrmex, due to their ant-like appearance, and the English word "cat" due to their feline size and running gait) were a naturally heteromorphic species whose final form was a large, interconnected sentient mesh which was able to directly interface with the human brain through a network of fibers connected to the body.  - Rama Revealed
  • Trillian's mice, actually part of the group of sentient and hyper-intelligent superbeings that had Earth created in the first place, reject the idea of building a second Earth to redo the process, and offer to buy Arthur's brain in the hope that it contains the answer, leading to a fight when he declines.  - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (novel)
  • The scientists that study the Cepheids differ on whether to treat them as sentient beings or as animals, but agree that the aliens are in danger of extinction as they have ceased to reproduce.  - Blind Alley
  • Besides the psychohistorians, much of the novel's action revolves around advanced sentient simulations (sims) of Joan of Arc and Voltaire.  - Foundation's Fear
  • However, he is much better with inanimate objects and animals and begins to display sentient characteristics (such as creativity; emotion; self-awareness) traditionally the province of humans.  - The Positronic Man
  • Maddox, however, argues that Data is Starfleet property, not a sentient being, and as such does not have the right to choose to resign.  - The Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
  • The player controls PRISM, the world's first sentient computer, in the year 2031.  - A Mind Forever Voyaging
  • Master Li then reads a story from a scroll containing the frame story of Dream of the Red Chamber, concerning a legend of Nü Kua, a sentient Stone and an evil flower named Purple Pearl.  - The Story of the Stone (Barry Hughart)
  • Several populations of different sentient species exist on the surface, but the planet is ruled by a race of tall, thin humanoids with large craniums who dwell on a large mechanical ring constructed around the planet.  - Anachronox
  • The planet itself was devoid of sentient life, but robotic war machines were found on its surface, and humans have since learned to control them telepathically (allowing the humans themselves to stay out of harm's way).  - Shattered Galaxy
  • A subset of Spira's sentient races are the "unsent", the strong-willed spirits of the dead that remain in corporeal form.  - Final Fantasy X-2
  • The business of making movies grows rapidly, and eventually Victor and Ginger become real stars, thanks to the help of Gaspode the sentient dog (who also develops a relationship with Laddie, that everybody considers to be the real Wonder Dog, although in fact has a very simple mind).  - Moving Pictures (novel)
  • Jack recalls that when he travelled to a different dimension with Tom O'Bedlam, a sentient satellite called Barbelith forced Jack to feel the collective suffering of humanity.  - The Invisibles
  • Samus narrowly avoids the SA-X on several occasions as she continues to explore the space station, completing various objectives such as saving the sentient Etecoons and Dachoras still on board the ship.  - Metroid Fusion
  • The Cyberspace Matrix, a synergistic linked computer database that encompasses all information on Earth, has become home to sentient beings.  - Count Zero
  • Unlike the inhabitants of Mars in Out of the Silent Planet, she resembles a human in physical appearance with the exception of her skin color, green; this is said to be the preferred form assumed by sentient creatures as a result of the manifestation of Maleldil, the second person of God, in human form.  - Perelandra
  • After Twoflower is kidnapped by a gang of thieves and taken to the Broken Drum Pub, Rincewind stages a rescue alongside the Luggage, an indestructible, enchanted and sentient chest belonging to Twoflower.  - The Colour of Magic
  • The sentient kelp is almost extinct, Ship is gone, there is no more dry land, the majority of humanity is heavily mutated from the genetic experiments performed by Jesus Lewis, and a power-hungry mad man is attempting to control the planet.  - The Lazarus Effect (novel)
  • The series follows Sara Pezzini, a NYPD homicide detective who comes into possession of the Witchblade, a supernatural, sentient gauntlet that bonds with a female host and provides her with a variety of powers in order to fight supernatural evil.  - Witchblade
  • He visits many corners of the "life-bubble", encountering Joker artifacts, his god-father, who is a sentient planet, and the sexless, octopoid Creapii, among many other weird and diverse aliens and planets.  - The Dark Side of the Sun
  • The Amazing Maurice is a sentient cat who leads his "Educated Rodents", a group of sentient rats, as they go from town to town posing as a plague so that their accomplice, a teenage human piper named Keith, can "lure them all away" from the town, after which they share the money the piper receives.  - The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
  • In the novel's frame story, a sentient Stone, abandoned by the goddess Nüwa when she mended the heavens aeons ago, begs a Taoist priest and a Buddhist monk to bring it with them to see the world.  - Dream of the Red Chamber
  • However, Ghostwheel has become sentient and capable of defending itself.  - Trumps of Doom
  • Throughout "The Counterforce", there are several brief, hallucinatory stories, of superheroes, silly Kamikaze pilots, and immortal sentient lightbulbs.  - Gravity's Rainbow
  • Unfortunately for the rest of the proud kingdom, the Engine then proceeded to become sentient and captured and assimilated its creator, then began to change the countryside for the worse.  - The Chaos Engine
  • Following the events of Speaker for the Dead, a group of characters are depicted living as members of a Brazilian Catholic human colony on Lusitania, a unique planet inhabited by the only other two known species of sentient alien life: the Pequeninos "little ones" and the Hive Queen.  - Xenocide
  • In the early-to-mid twenty-first century, humanity successfully develops Artificial intelligence, and soon builds an entire race of sentient AI robots to serve them.  - The Animatrix
  • The inhabitants of the settlement, the Mysterons, are sentient computers that form a collective consciousness.  - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
  • As Harry and Ron plan to depart with the rest for Hogwarts School, the barrier within King’s Cross station that separates Muggles from wizards refuses to allow them passage, forcing them to fly Arthur’s car to the school, where they crash into a sentient willow tree on the grounds.  - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Later, in the second section, he encounters a community, Corvallis, Oregon, which is led by Cyclops, who is apparently a sentient artificial intelligence created at Oregon State University which miraculously survived the cataclysm.  - The Postman
  • One, the Taprisiots, provide instant mind-to-mind communication between two sentient minds anywhere in the universe, and the Caleban provide "jump-doors" (which allow instantaneous travel between any two points in the universe).  - The Dosadi Experiment
  • As the novel opens, it is revealed that Calebans, who are beings visible to other sentient species as stars, have been disappearing one by one.  - Whipping Star
  • Alpha 60 is a sentient computer system created by von Braun which is in complete control of all of Alphaville.  - Alphaville (film)
  • The story also relates the breakup and reunion of a family (the mother, the discoverer of Nemesis, and the daughter were separated from the Earthbound father when the colony departed; the father becomes part of the hyperjump research project as a result); the startling discovery that the bacterial inhabitants of Erythro, collectively, constitute a sentient and telepathic organism; and the discovery and resolution of a massive crisis: Nemesis' trajectory threatens to gravitationally destabilize the Solar System.  - Nemesis (Asimov novel)
  • It clearly shows signs of former intelligent life, but as they explore, they find no evidence of any sentient creatures that remain, and the one advanced complex they are in shows signs of long-term deterioration.  - The Dig
  • The wounded are found by Unicron, a gigantic sentient cyber-planet who consumes other planets.  - The Transformers: The Movie
  • The book's epilogue reveals that the Excession is a sentient entity that was acting as a bridge for a procession of beings that travel between universes.  - Excession
  • Terran scientists concluded it is a sentient being and are attempting communication with it.  - Solaris (novel)
  • Fearing for his life, he escapes the building, along the way stealing the yet-unpublished, seemingly sentient Hitchhiker's Guide Mk.  - Mostly Harmless
  • After exiting through an emergency tunnel, they find themselves in a completely undamaged, semi-tropical region apparently uninhabited by humans or other sentient creatures.  - Farnham's Freehold
  • At a rest stop, Willis wanders off and encounters one of the adult sentient Martians.  - Red Planet (novel)
  • Accepting only on Gwen's account, Campbell agrees to assist a team to retrieve the decommissioned Mike, a sentient computer introduced in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.  - The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
  • A subset of Spira's sentient races are the "unsent", the strong-willed spirits of the dead that remain in corporeal form.  - Final Fantasy X
  • Both stories take place aboard colony ships orbiting Tau Ceti, where sentient computers have engaged crew and colonists in a fight for survival.  - Marathon Trilogy
  • The articulate, sentient pet he inherited from his late father has gradually grown from the size of a collie pup to a ridable behemoth—especially after consuming a used car.  - The Star Beast
  • He contacts the sentient usually-friendly Venerians, but the entire party is taken captive.  - Space Cadet
  • Morpheus warns Neo that fatal injuries within the Matrix also kill one's physical body, and that the Agents are powerful sentient programs that eliminate threats to the system.  - The Matrix
  • Chrono Trigger takes place in a world familiar to Earth, with eras such as the prehistoric age, in which primitive humans and dinosaurs share the earth; the Middle Ages, replete with knights, monsters, and magic; and the post-apocalyptic future, where destitute humans and sentient robots struggle to survive.  - Chrono Trigger
  • He is accompanied by a mysterious alien named Lorien who claims to be the first sentient being in the galaxy, and who breathed life into Sheridan at Z'ha'dum.  - Babylon 5
  • Ravna Bergsndot, the only human Relay employee, traces the sleeper ship's signal to the Tines world and persuades her employer to investigate what the human ship took from High Lab, contracting the merchant vessel Out of Band II, owned by two sentient plant Skroderiders, Blueshell and Greenstalk, to transport them.  - A Fire Upon the Deep
  • Initially thinking it is another person using a chat program from a remote site, Greg soon realizes that it is in fact P-1, and types in the status command and is told that it has taken over almost every computer in the US (somewhat dated with 20,000 mainframes with a total of 5,800 MB), and is now fully sentient and able to converse fluently in English.  - The Adolescence of P-1
  • The long-lived sentient canine Rex the Wonder Dog has made several appearances in the book, associated with his new 'owner', Hero Cruz.  - Superboy and the Ravers

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Meaning of "sentient" in English

  • endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness
  • consciously perceiving
    Example
    - a boy so sentient of his surroundings

Meaning of "sentient" in Hindi

  • संवेदनशील ( Sanvedanashil, sanvedanasheel, sanwedanashil)
  • चेतन ( Chetan)
  • सचेतन ( Sachetan)
  • सचेतन
  • बोधक्षम ( Bodhaksham)

Synonyms of "sentient"

  • animate

Antonyms of "sentient"

  • insensate
  • insentient

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