How to Use alien in a Sentence

alien

1 of 3 adjective
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  • So the idea of us as a band still seems kind of alien to me.
    — Vulture, 29 Mar. 2023
  • How did the fun little alien episode leave me in tears?
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Yet both ideas are less alien as the war edges into its third year.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The figures looked akin to E.T., the fictional movie alien.
    — Anumita Kaur, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The alien craft that crashed in rural Colombia in 2017 and freaked out farmers?
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The 12-2 Reds and the rest of the planet learn from, communicate with, and befriend our alien friends.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • With that death of heat comes the death of any form of life, no matter how exotic and alien.
    — Popular Mechanics, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Jeffrey Wright returns as the voice of the Watcher, the alien narrator.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Like how there’s this big alien culture around the desert in the American Southwest.
    — Hazlitt, 26 Oct. 2023
  • From one end of a Zoom screen, the alien world of Berkeley became even more difficult to get to know.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • And Kardashian tapped some alien friends to pose alongside her in the spacey photo shoot.
    — Michelle Lee, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Lights on the alien planet shine bright when Hamas attacks Israel.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Cassini dropped a lander on Titan, the alien world most like Earth, with vast plains and canyonlands.
    — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The Autopsy The third episode explores the topic of an alien invasion.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • And just maybe, their behavior isn't so alien after all.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • What this country needs (along with a good five-cent cigar) is an alien economist from Mars — with three hands.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2023
  • That’s where the astronaut’s alien surrogate shrink comes in.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The movie is the third instalment in the hugely popular Guardians of the Galaxy series about a team of alien misfits.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes, 2 Apr. 2023
  • And then there were two: the same dress in neon lemon-y chartreuse sparkled under the light like an alien fantasy creature.
    — Kristen Bateman, Vogue, 3 Nov. 2023
  • And on that face — seemingly most of her face — was the most stunning alien sunset eye shadow look.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Of course, there are alien and black hole conspiracies.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • At the end of the war, Lore’s father, who had been interned as a German enemy alien early in the war, died of a stroke in England.
    — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Looking like the lovechild of an alien life form and a gumdrop, the genus Thismia (commonly known as fairy lanterns) is one of the plant world’s stranger creations.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 27 Feb. 2023
  • In keeping with that opening tale, a big part of The Possibility of Life is about how alien even our own world is to us.
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
  • What Fleit discovers is that the Greek system at Alabama is not some alien cult.
    — Vulture, 25 May 2023
  • The tiny stars, the starless worlds, invisible asteroids, alien comets and more.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The tiny stars, the starless worlds, invisible asteroids, alien comets, and more.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Racing toward an upshift, such an engine made a sound like an alien power drill boring to the center of the earth.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The tobacco shed saucers were neither alien, nor Russian.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • As a Mets fan, the concept of reasonable hopes feels almost completely alien because of the unluckiness that is just baked into this team.
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
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alien

2 of 3 noun
  • He claims that he was captured by space aliens.
  • aliens seeking asylum in the U.S.
  • The slide — and a couple of aliens — in the Area 51 hangar.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • There's aliens, there's people on the ground who want the aliens to come.
    — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Joints and hinges allow the little tree-alien to move and pose.
    — Time, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Are there any aliens out there who don’t look like our dads?
    — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
  • The aliens who controlled our brains didn’t care about style or image.
    — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
  • TikTok users took to the app to poke fun at the notion of aliens invading Earth.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • The alien is definitely the most unique of the bunch and will make a great addition to your tree.
    — Katie Melynn, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Some people who believe in aliens and UFOs do not like me.
    — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • This idea that there could be something buried and hidden down there: aliens, old ships, all of this.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Thrawn is a member of the Chiss species, aliens from the Unknown Regions who have blue skin and piercing red eyes.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
  • But in the 2000s, visions of grand alien-hunting telescopes crumbled on both sides of the Atlantic.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In one sequence, Naru is seen on a tree trunk waiting for the alien before jumping down.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 2 June 2023
  • Kentucky tourism board reaches out to ET Come to Kentucky, the local tourist board has told aliens.
    — Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 15 Jan. 2024
  • To get humans’ attention, the aliens create a website with the help of Squarespace.
    — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Rebecca Scott Thein dressed in bright green to play an alien to her daughter’s Buzz Lightyear.
    — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Others should wait for a sequel where the Freaks fight aliens or monsters or something.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The Series is set in the future and follows a battle taking place between humankind and a group of aliens known as the Covenant.
    — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This is how the character of Kiri manages to look recognizably like Weaver and like a teenage alien at the same time.
    — Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The scale of the proceedings is human, and the pace is human, the triumph of the Schwarzeneggerian will over the space alien is human, too.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • It’s suggested that the alien causes the attacker’s head to explode, though that’s not shown.
    — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
  • His generation was able to just make music and sound like an alien.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The math may very well be on the side of the aliens existing, but that’s largely because the math of the universe itself turns out to be astounding.
    — Garrett M. Graff, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2023
  • When a stop-motion alien shows up and steals the meteorite, the town is forced to quarantine and go a little cuckoo.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 24 May 2023
  • Vectors, orbits, Lagrange points—and not a single alien to be scanned.
    — Liz Braswell, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Adam and Chloe broadcast their relationship to the aliens, who send them money.
    — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Another man was dressed like an alien; that was the word LeBron James used last fall to describe the 7-foot-3 teen who just took his team to the French league finals.
    — Tim Reynolds, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • The clean design suggests that aliens are fond of Apple products, or perhaps that Steve Jobs came from space, which some people probably do believe.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This may include claims of UFO sightings or encounters with aliens, which are then claimed to be dismissed or suppressed by official channels.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
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alien

3 of 3 verb
  • Alien is a horror movie on a spaceship, to which Aliens adds space marines.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, WIRED, 19 May 2017
  • Dust storms were spotted on the celestial satellite in September 2018, which raised the prospect the storms could be a precursor to alien life on the celestial body.
    — Fox News, 10 June 2020
  • In September 2018, dust storms were spotted on Titan for the first time ever, raising the prospect the storms could be a precursor to alien life on the celestial body.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The answer, in any case, can only be the Giger alien itself, a contribution to the pantheon of modern design up there with the Coca-Cola logo and the Nike swoosh.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • The objects, their controllers, and their motivations could utterly alien and unknowable.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Can alien smog lead us to extraterrestrial civilizations?
    — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Alien is a horror movie on a spaceship, to which Aliens adds space marines.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, WIRED, 19 May 2017
  • Dust storms were spotted on the celestial satellite in September 2018, which raised the prospect the storms could be a precursor to alien life on the celestial body.
    — Fox News, 10 June 2020
  • In September 2018, dust storms were spotted on Titan for the first time ever, raising the prospect the storms could be a precursor to alien life on the celestial body.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The answer, in any case, can only be the Giger alien itself, a contribution to the pantheon of modern design up there with the Coca-Cola logo and the Nike swoosh.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • The objects, their controllers, and their motivations could utterly alien and unknowable.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Can alien smog lead us to extraterrestrial civilizations?
    — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Alien is a horror movie on a spaceship, to which Aliens adds space marines.
    — Charlie Jane Anders, WIRED, 19 May 2017
  • Dust storms were spotted on the celestial satellite in September 2018, which raised the prospect the storms could be a precursor to alien life on the celestial body.
    — Fox News, 10 June 2020
  • In September 2018, dust storms were spotted on Titan for the first time ever, raising the prospect the storms could be a precursor to alien life on the celestial body.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 27 Sep. 2020
  • The answer, in any case, can only be the Giger alien itself, a contribution to the pantheon of modern design up there with the Coca-Cola logo and the Nike swoosh.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 17 May 2017
  • The objects, their controllers, and their motivations could utterly alien and unknowable.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Can alien smog lead us to extraterrestrial civilizations?
    — Whitson Gordon, Wired, 8 Apr. 2021

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