alien

Example Sentences

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Actor Ryan Gosling and a cute alien named Rocky are doing wonders for a five-year-old science-fiction novel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Apers believe Bigfoot is just a primate unknown to science while Woo-Woos think Bigfoot is some sort of interdimensional traveller - an alien of sort.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

"Initially, I thought we must have sequenced some alien species. It's very rare for an active gene, which makes a protein, to not have a match."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

An alien who is stopped in Mexico does not arrive in the United States.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

The boy, Ronan, eyes me the way you would an alien stepping out of its spaceship and asking for pie.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt