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
What he finds is a sweet, five-legged alien who appears to have a stone-like exterior.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026
As inventor of more than one thousand radio effects, Nichols had created space-travel and alien sounds for the Buck Rogers radio show.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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