alien
Example Sentences
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Immanuel made headlines a few years ago for claiming that many of America’s health problems are linked to alien DNA and sperm from demons.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 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
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
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.