alien
Example Sentences
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It was like being “dropped into somewhere completely alien,” said Vander Veen, who finished the race at the steps of the California state capitol in Sacramento.
“What next? Spending millions so that streetlights don’t attract cows? A year of study to help aliens ride the train? A subway to Catalina?”
From Los Angeles Times
"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
Divorce, marriage, kids, no kids; so many of the men in McCarthy’s orbit feel alienated, adrift, untethered to any community.
From Los Angeles Times
An alien who is stopped in Mexico does not arrive in the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
