sci-fi
Example Sentences
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If that were an innovative idea, we’d have been worshipping at the heels of last year’s equally topical yet no less trite sci-fi horror “Companion.”
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
The producers delighted in bending and breaking rules of the sci-fi genre throughout the series, but they also shook up one of the most conventional elements of any TV show: the opening title sequence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Last month, the BBC said it was cancelling this year's Christmas special, at the same time as show runner Russel T Davies announced he was leaving the long-running sci-fi show.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
All of it evokes 1950s sci-fi like “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” a sci-fi classic about a spacecraft landing D.C. that features a robot named Gort.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
The dash resembles something from a retro sci-fi movie, a spaceship’s control panels or Doc Brown’s modified DeLorean.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
