alien
Example Sentences
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They are exceptionally lovely; even the driest of his working drawings—for example, the construction details for an iron bookstand—exult in line and color in a way utterly alien to modern practice.
The service will now be available only to U.S. citizens and “qualified aliens” who have resided lawfully in the U.S. for at least five years and met other requirements.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
