alien

Example Sentences

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Actor Ryan Gosling and a cute alien named Rocky are doing wonders for a five-year-old science-fiction novel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Apers believe Bigfoot is just a primate unknown to science while Woo-Woos think Bigfoot is some sort of interdimensional traveller - an alien of sort.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

"Initially, I thought we must have sequenced some alien species. It's very rare for an active gene, which makes a protein, to not have a match."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

The question before the Supreme Court is "whether an alien who is stopped on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border 'arrives in the United States.'"

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

On Theater of the Mind days, we usually play alien schoolchildren in the park across the street, and then Dad takes us for Thai food.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins