earthling

Example Sentences

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Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, might seem utterly alien from the perspective of an Earthling.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2022

The Earthling project aims to create a collective composition that represents humanity writ large and will hopefully avoid the bias that has plagued past musical interstellar messages.

From Slate • Jan. 2, 2020

Rolling up to the crater’s edge, the Opportunity rover took in a landscape unlike anything any Earthling had ever seen.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2019

Despite drawing inspiration from recent albums by D’Angelo and Kendrick Lamar, and featuring percussion from LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, it never strains to be of-the-moment like his 90s albums Outside and Earthling.

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2016

Real night came to the zoo for only one Earthling hour out of every sixty-two.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut