saucer

Example Sentences

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George aero-commutes in a glass-domed saucer that folds into a briefcase, and still manages to get stuck in traffic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

Among the munitions were dozens of thick, green plastic discs about the diameter of a saucer.

From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025

An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

Another spacecraft will then snag the samples and send them to Earth, where they’ll fall to the same Utah desert where Hays watched the saucer drop last year.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024

“A face plain as a clay saucer and no gold threads woven in her sari,” Tanu whispered.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan