saucer

Example Sentences

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Miss Mortimer’s spoon slipped from her fingers and landed on the saucer with a clink.

From Literature

Among the munitions were dozens of thick, green plastic discs about the diameter of a saucer.

From BBC

Ask ChatGPT what SF will look like in 10 years and it generates an image of the city’s skyline with futuristic architecture and flying saucers next to the Golden Gate Bridge.

From Los Angeles Times

An apocryphal story has George Washington breakfasting with Thomas Jefferson and referring to the Senate as a saucer intended to cool the passions of the intemperate lower chamber.

From Los Angeles Times

Let’s think about the terrifying theremin line that snakes through “Good Vibrations” like it’s tugging a flying saucer down onto Dockweiler Beach.

From Los Angeles Times