Explore Morlocks through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Morlocks meaning
plural of Morlock
Using Morlocks
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Morlock
- In the example corpus, morlocks often appears in combinations such as: the morlocks, morlocks have, morlocks who.
Context around Morlocks
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Morlocks
- In this selection, "morlocks" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, former, fearing, eloi, proved, having and open stand out and add context to how "morlocks" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include although the morlocks have worked and are the morlocks not the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "morlocks" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with morlocks
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
They are captured by the Morlocks, who alter their appearance. (10 words)
There, a race of monsters known as Morlocks have destroyed humanity. (11 words)
The deleted text recounts an incident immediately after the Traveller's escape from the Morlocks. (15 words)
He takes Weena with him on an expedition to a distant structure that turns out to be the remains of a museum, where he finds a fresh supply of matches and fashions a crude weapon against Morlocks, whom he must fight to get back his machine. (46 words)
This third sequel, the plot of which does not seem to fit with Pal's second, opens with the Time Traveller enjoying a happy life with Weena, in a future world in which the Morlocks have died out. (38 words)
Because the long and tiring journey back to Weena's home is too much for them, they stop in the forest, and they are then overcome by Morlocks in the night, and Weena faints. (34 words)
Example sentences (19)
The very existence of the Morlocks proved that humans would not deign to live alongside mutants with severe physical mutations.
Although the Morlocks have worked together with the X-Men a number of times, both as reluctant and willing allies, they haven't always been helpful.
These were murderous former Morlocks who planned to slaughter 100 humans for every Morlock killed during the Mutant Massacre.
To put it another way, these are the Morlocks, not the Eloi: beings with character etched hard into their faces.
They are captured by the Morlocks, who alter their appearance.
According to this manuscript, the Time Traveller disappeared, because his Time Machine had been damaged by the Morlocks without him knowing it.
A steampunk fantasy novel in which the Morlocks, having studied the Traveller's machine, duplicate it and invade Victorian London.
Because the long and tiring journey back to Weena's home is too much for them, they stop in the forest, and they are then overcome by Morlocks in the night, and Weena faints.
Fire symbolizes civilization, as the Time Traveller uses it to ward off the Morlocks, but it escapes his control and turns into a forest fire.
He alters his theory, speculating that the human race has evolved into two species: the leisured classes have become the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes have become the brutal light-fearing Morlocks.
He stuns or kills one with a rock, and upon closer examination realises they are probably the descendants of humans/Eloi/Morlocks.
He takes Weena with him on an expedition to a distant structure that turns out to be the remains of a museum, where he finds a fresh supply of matches and fashions a crude weapon against Morlocks, whom he must fight to get back his machine.
The deleted text recounts an incident immediately after the Traveller's escape from the Morlocks.
The Morlocks are much more barbaric and agile, and the Time Traveller has a direct impact on the plot.
The Morlocks open the Sphinx and use the time machine as bait to capture the Traveller, not understanding that he will use it to escape.
There, a race of monsters known as Morlocks have destroyed humanity.
This third sequel, the plot of which does not seem to fit with Pal's second, opens with the Time Traveller enjoying a happy life with Weena, in a future world in which the Morlocks have died out.
When Kitty is alone in the cave Morlocks can be seen hiding in the background.
Wishbone plays the role of the Time Traveller, where he meets Weena, takes her to an ancient library, and confronts the Morlocks.
Common combinations with morlocks
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: