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

She ran on, through a tangled fringe of gossip, never seeing that these names were alien to him, they meant nothing, and that as she prattled unaware he grew colder and more silent.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier