earthling

Example Sentences

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“I am an earthling — after that I’m galactic and then I’m universal,” Alejandro Jodorowsky tells me in Spanish from his home in Paris during a recent video call.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

He chronicles his total confusion about the customs and rituals of his earthling “host family.”

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

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

There's this elastic band inside, and he goes, "Observe and be amazed, earthling," and then he lets it go, and you know what?

From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick