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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of locomote.

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Examples

  • Macro-Microbe locomoted himself inside the building of NextDrug Corporation, and soon faced a receptionist, which was another misnomer because Macro-Microbe had no face.

    The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe 2009

  • The seat was higher then and he basically “locomoted” with his feet on the pavement.

    Big Wheel | clusterflock 2009

  • Macro-Microbe locomoted himself inside the building of NextDrug Corporation, and soon faced a receptionist, which was another misnomer because Macro-Microbe had no face.

    The Amazing Adventures of Macro-Microbe 2009

  • The little truck I pushed around the summer of '44 didn't use much gas, nor did the hind legs by which I locomoted the last year of that conflict.

    progress/regress free association Holly 2007

  • Certainly the rear number plate of the taxi had been unreadable, and no one could have positively id ntified the eccentric driver with the Saint; but Claud Eustace Teal had seen him and spoken with him in Bond Street only a few minutes before the disastrous events which had followed, and Simon was only too familiar with the suspicious and uncharitable grooves in which Mr. Teal's mind locomoted along its orbit.

    The Saint in Action Charteris, Leslie 1937

  • Google Maps assumed everybody locomoted to their destination, until now.

    Gizmodo 2009

  • Well, you see, the like of that called for a response, and so I had to put in and tell what a beautiful, hazel-eyed creole she was -- what long raven hair that fell over her shoulders in waving tresses, and what beautiful hands and feet, and how fawnlike she locomoted about and about, and how shy and startled she was when I began to address her, and what juicy lips that seemed pouting for a lover, and then her teeth -- her pearly teeth -- that were almost as pretty as those she has now.

    Bill Arp from the uncivil war to date, 1861-1903, 1903

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