alien
Example Sentences
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Were Congress to address the status of illegal immigrants who have been here for a lengthy period and been law abiding, ICE could focus on criminal illegal aliens.
“Wow. When we lived in Kansas, my classmates thought poi was an alien creature.”
From Literature
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In “Iron Lung” Fischbach plays a convict forced into a mission on an alien moon.
“And here we have this insane ecosystem where they’re being slammed together in the shadow of a giant, dead alien.”
He argued that modern life alienated human beings from their nature.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.