unearthly
Example Sentences
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Ms. Pratt’s voice is unearthly and beautiful, and it’s striking to hear her showing up in such a setting.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026
They did not leave disappointed as the sun shrank to a crescent-like sliver of light that cast an unearthly pale gloom over the city.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2024
In the adept lithograph “Angels and Airplanes,” Russia’s Natalia Goncharova gives her blessing to the erupting conflagration by entwining unearthly militarism and Orthodox religiosity.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Lovecraft short story, an apt source considering the eccentric author was, like Cage, drawn to tales of unearthly heebie-jeebies and anti-authoritarian resistance.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023
The physicists are another species, whiter-skinned, towel-draped against the sun, unearthly, the soles of their feet so sensitive that they limp on sand.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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