otherworldly

Example Sentences

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I saw these and many other otherworldly species while on a life-changing backpacking trip to the island five years ago, which I chronicled for this newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

The “zoo,” in which otherworldly lifeforms such as socket-seeking eye midges and toxic gas ticks are kept, is a smaller version of Prodigy’s containment lab on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

Stripping music down to its core, each of these films explores from a different angle the exhilaration of the art and its almost otherworldly ability to bring people together.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

In diagrammatic canvases that look like otherworldly computer chips, she writes her own invented language and creates charts and instructions inscrutable to the viewer—not a problem since they’re meant for nonhuman entities.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Come November, as the weather turns cold across the rest of the country, some five thousand snowbirds and drifters and sundry vagabonds congregate in this otherworldly setting to live on the cheap under the sun.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer