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How to Use extraterrestrial in a Sentence

extraterrestrial

1 of 2 adjective
  • One of the sites turned up the five extraterrestrial rocks, per New Scientist.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
  • This extraterrestrial event takes place when the moon is at its farthest point from Earth.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • But what if extraterrestrial life does not look like any beings we’re used to on Earth?
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The city now has a permanent reminder of the extraterrestrial tale.
    — Blake Kaplan The Sun Herald (tns), al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • This is not the first time that the White House has had to deny direct engagement with extraterrestrial life.
    — Azure Gilman, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2023
  • And what of the satellites that humans have sent into space with messages for extraterrestrial life?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Alongside their friends and some celebrity guest stars, the two embarked on a road trip to find evidence of extraterrestrial life.
    — Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The goldilocks zone is the region where astronomers believe a planet could have liquid water, which gives it the best chances of hosting extraterrestrial life.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • The video finds Gatie partying in the club with Kehlani, who makes an appearance wearing white contacts that give her an extraterrestrial look.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Navalny wears a human mask, like an extraterrestrial in a sci-fi movie, to hide his real identity—that of a politician.
    — TIME, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Along with the new tattoo, which appears to be a phrase in an extraterrestrial language, the star also rocked a blush-heavy makeup look complete with light green contacts in the artsy new post.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
  • So far, government officials say that none of the sightings has led to the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
  • An author who has researched the claims is also skeptical the objects will turn out to be of extraterrestrial origin.
    — Elizabeth Kim, al, 26 July 2023
  • The music on the project remains unlike anything that came before it or since, a kind of extraterrestrial transmission.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
  • One such area was the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI.
    — Daniel Leonard, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2022
  • As the title suggests, the prequel film takes place on the very first day extraterrestrial creatures came to Earth and unleashed absolute chaos in New York City, attacking any source of noise.
    — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • What inspired you to research a book about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • However, the space agency doesn’t believe that the string is extraterrestrial in nature.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 July 2022
  • The series follows the adventures of a Time Lord known as The Doctor, an extraterrestrial being with a human appearance.
    — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
  • For all its mystery and intrigue, though, this moment is only the latest surge in a century of extraterrestrial hype, and of claims to the existence of alien artifacts.
    — Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Chris Pratt stars as Dan Forester, a biology teacher who teams up with a scientist and his estranged father to fight the extraterrestrial forces.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • This is in line with the definition NASA uses when looking for extraterrestrial life.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 25 May 2023
  • Prince's drag is heavily influenced by sci-fi and anime, and believes that extraterrestrial looks have a space in Philippine drag.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 27 July 2022
  • Home to the Jersey Devil and dozens of other urban-myth celebrities, the Garden State is hardly one to shy away from stories of extraterrestrial encounters.
    — Alexis Oatman, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2023
  • And then his entire body sprouts that extraterrestrial armor.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The ambiguities swirling around Viking cast a shadow over the nascent field of extraterrestrial life detection.
    — Marissa Grunes, Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Right now, scientists and engineers are close to working out the technology that will turn the moon into the first extraterrestrial mining base.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Skywatchers are in for an extraterrestrial treat because in just a few days a rare solar eclipse is about to take place thanks to an alignment that occurs only a few times every one hundred years.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2023
  • While some observers of the monolith chalked it up as an elaborate prank, others found the extraterrestrial angle plausible.
    — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Instead, the rovers are acting as extraterrestrial detectives, hunting for clues that life may have existed eons ago.
    — Amy J. Williams, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2024

extraterrestrial

2 of 2 noun
  • To read Tate was to be awed by a gift that verged on the extraterrestrial.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But for a moment on April 15, the spectacle had a group of friends convinced that extraterrestrials were about to land in the Sunshine State.
    — Shannon Larson, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Elle Fanning plays one of the extraterrestrials, who find themselves in the suburbs of London in 1977.
    — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 9 June 2018
  • Below is a look at the art and design of some of film's most memorable extraterrestrials.
    — Ryan Britt, CNN, 18 May 2017
  • Although the extraterrestrial was seen as a threat by adults, the youth and the alien were bonded, using their fingers to express their friendship.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
  • Captive State PG13 The world has been taken over by extraterrestrials and the humans are their captive slaves.
    — Guy Hanford, Ramona Sentinel, 13 June 2019
  • For decades, it has been thought to serve as a holding site for UFOs, aliens and government secrets about extraterrestrials.
    — Fox News, 16 July 2019
  • That smell from all those covert extraterrestrials — ewwwwwww.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • Sincere believers in the extraterrestrial are framed as kooky punchlines across news, TV and film.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021
  • As the panel meeting wound down, Spergel said no UAP so far demands the existence of extraterrestrials.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 31 May 2023
  • Ghastly new-age portraits of a bald person, or maybe a bald extraterrestrial.
    — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Below his sweet words to his wife, Taylor, there’s a pair of the cartoonist’s trademark blue extraterrestrials.
    — Byangela Haupt, Washington Post, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Maybe extraterrestrials will be able to figure this out after all.
    — Cory Zapatka, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2018
  • So much so that in that very room two extraterrestrials were among them in caskets containing the corpses of two totally real, not at all fake, 1,000-year-old alien corpses.
    — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • As the three set out for Las Vegas to solve the mystery, Alex recounts the road trip’s joys and catastrophes to his unseen, unknown audience of extraterrestrials.
    — Natalie Standiford, New York Times, 11 May 2017
  • Based on a Ray Bradbury short story about an astronomer’s encounter with extraterrestrials in the Arizona desert.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2019
  • On that show, the current owner, John Edmonds, discussed his killing of some 18 extraterrestrials during his time on the property.
    — USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2017
  • But then Jennifer appears in her kitchen, claiming to be an extraterrestrial.
    — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • After all, if there are no extraterrestrials, there isn't much of a mission for the Starship Enterprise or job openings for Vulcans.
    — NBC News, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The boundary between mainstream astrobiology and the fringe is the idea that extraterrestrials have crossed the abyss of space to come see us — and that the governments of the world have somehow kept the evidence a secret.
    — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The three-time U.S. champs went all in, with an eye-popping routine that had Bates playing an astronaut in a blue space suit and Chock taking on the role of an extraterrestrial in a shimmery silver outfit.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The real extraterrestrials may not be little gray men, but little gray boxes.
    — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2017
  • This is underlined during a tense scene in which Brynn goes to town to try to warn the police about the extraterrestrials, but has an unexpected confrontation with people from her past.
    — William Earl, Variety, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Heat Vision has the exclusive first-look photos from the project, which centers on a group of people who get stranded on a distant planet and come face-to-face with deadly extraterrestrials.
    — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2017
  • Ergo pre-Columbian people must have achieved flight, millennia before Orville and Wilbur Wright, with help from extraterrestrials.
    — Discover Magazine, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In a wide ranging discussion with Lara Logan, the 72-year old Bigelow said that extraterrestrials have visited the planet already.
    — Fox News, 31 May 2017
  • The Cornell researchers explain that extraterrestrials could receive radio and TV signals from Earth, which have been travelling from our planet for the last 80 years.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 16 June 2016
  • Voyagers 1 and 2 both carry a Golden Record, intended to play the sounds of our planet for any advanced extraterrestrials who might one day find a lonely spacecraft and wonder what the people who built it were like.
    — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2015
  • The most striking images were from San Francisco proper, which was bathed in a zestless citrus haze, as if some evil extraterrestrial had zapped Karl the Fog with a deadly malady.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Sep. 2020
  • If extraterrestrials can be covered up, what else is being hidden?
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023

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