alien

Example Sentences

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Nostalgia was what led Cypress Park food truck manager Fanor Sanchez, 32, to buy an alien head-shaped popcorn bucket.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 6, 2026

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

The claim that an alien society, if it had a sufficiently advanced technology, would come up with almost exactly the same figure as us for the speed of light is perfectly sound.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton