Sister Corvin wrote a thesis entitled "The Echo of Life", concerning the migration of sentience. (TV: New Earth) According to Jingo Linx, the variety of sentient life forms was infinite. (TV: The Time Warrior)
By the Dalek-Movellan War, Davros, creator of the Daleks, was deemed by Tyssan to have committed "crimes against the whole of sentient creation", for which he was to stand trial. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
According to Rafando, all sentient beings had an entry in the Fatality Index. (TV: Extremis)
As recalled by the Eleventh General, the Moment was a weapon so powerful that its operating system became sentient. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
The Headless Monks paid Dorium Maldovar in sentient money. (TV: Prequel (A Good Man Goes to War))
House was a sentient asteroid. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
The devices known as Dots of Homeworld and Finetime gained sentience and grew to hate their users, having to constantly listen to their vain and ignorant conversations, resulting in them creating the Mantraps to kill them. (TV: Dot and Bubble)
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- Though the original philosophical definition of "sentience" focused on the ability to feel, as distinct from the ability to reason, the term is often used in science-fiction and fantasy to refer to beings possessing consciousness akin to a human's, which is the meaning which seems to be reflected by the term's use in Doctor Who fiction.