earthling

Example Sentences

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But with little conclusive evidence expected to confirm any intergalactic visitations, it remains to be seen whether any earthling minds will change.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2021

So if we're identifying as an earthling, they might call it something else.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2020

Recurring nightmares of the planet Mars lead a confused earthling into the center of an intergalactic conspiracy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2019

But fear not, dear earthling: Your brain has taken millions of years to get here, and it’s ready for this gaze into the darkness.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2019

But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer