earthling
Example Sentences
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In return, the boy wants little to do with her or any other earthling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025
But with little conclusive evidence expected to confirm any intergalactic visitations, it remains to be seen whether any earthling minds will change.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2021
So if we're identifying as an earthling, they might call it something else.
From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2020
But fear not, dear earthling: Your brain has taken millions of years to get here, and it’s ready for this gaze into the darkness.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2019
But Ino saw him—Ino, Kadmos’ daughter, slim-legged, lovely, once an earthling girl, now in the seas a nereid, Leukothea.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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