earthling
Example Sentences
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There’s sometimes condescension in it; in one essay, she adopts an alien persona to show “earthlings” how to avoid totalitarianism — not cute.
From Washington Post
The result adds to a small and scattered body of research, conducted over decades, on what the night sky might mean to the other earthlings who can sense it.
From New York Times
“And some of them might be lucky in seeing us earthlings transiting in front of the sun.”
From Scientific American
As aliens plan to destroy the world, a ragtag team of earthlings travels to the future to stop them.
From Reuters
As aliens plan to destroy the world, a ragtag team of earthlings travels to the future to stop them.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
