alien
Example Sentences
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With the alien tech in his ray gun.
From Literature
Woodrow Wilson jailed war critics, put enemy aliens under tight constraints, and prohibited the dissemination of antiwar materials through the mail.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
