alien
Example Sentences
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His name had never looked so strange to him before, so alien, as if it didn’t really belong to him.
From Literature
The 2003 South Korean film “Save the Green Planet!” ends with the aliens punishing the flawed human race by blowing up Earth.
From Los Angeles Times
And when a fictitious alien attempts to escape, he crashes into the Unisphere—actually a model of the giant globe—nearby.
Former US President Barack Obama has clarified that the chances Earth has been visited by aliens is "low" after comments he made about extra-terrestrial species caught attention online.
From BBC
Over time, as people are uprooted from their agricultural communities as industrialisation tears apart people's familiar attachments, individuals become "alienated", he says.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
