How to Use earthling in a Sentence

earthling

noun
  • That would be good to know if down the road colonies of earthlings intend to make the moon home.
    — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity.com, 6 June 2017
  • But have no fear, freezing earthlings north of the equator — there is a bright side!
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Or, in this case, about science and not the petty problems of earthlings.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 9 July 2024
  • Little earthlings were walking on them.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Earthlings who know where to look can spot it with a telescope in the pre-dawn skies, but most won’t take the trouble.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Adam's cult classic is sure to thrill every earthling, just be sure to bring along a towel and don't panic.
    — Nina Wladkowski, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Who will decide which earthlings are admitted into the colonies?
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Moss delivered the line in a slow whisper, like an alien observing an earthling.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Nonetheless, the sun could soon spew out more plasma and spark a celestial show for us earthlings.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The findings have implications for more than just earthlings.
    — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 14 July 2017
  • Food items — from sausages to oranges — have wrenched global control from pathetic earthlings, many of whom are now dead.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
  • Most Earthlings have yet to buy a PC and probably never will.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1998
  • So the earthlings now have to try and ignite Jupiter’s atmosphere to launch Earth back into space.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Luckily for us earthlings, there's no chance that the nucleus will collide with Earth.
    — David Freeman, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2019
  • From an earthling’s perspective, the moon will be too small to blot out the sun entirely, leaving fiery tendrils at the edge of a deep black disk.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
  • For decades, earthlings have dispatched spacecraft to Mars to study the planet's dusty surface and its thin atmosphere.
    — Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
  • Hopefully, the astronauts can watch it shortly thereafter and avoid spoilers from us earthlings.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 13 Dec. 2017
  • This new gray colorway does give off serious celestial vibes, though, which is perfect for earthlings with a penchant for space.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Assuming that human messages actually reach their target, what would earthlings and aliens talk about?
    — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive.
    — National Geographic, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Through an alien who feeds on earthlings, the movie tackles exploitation, spectacle and whether wild animals can never be truly tamed.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
  • Mars Day is also the one time a year that an Earthling can get up close and personal with the Red Planet.
    — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
  • There's no guarantee that the spacecraft will reach their destinations safely, but millions of earthlings will be rooting for them.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2021
  • One year ago today, humanity got its first close look at a world that has managed to command the passions of Earthlings from billions of miles away.
    — National Geographic, 14 July 2016
  • In various guises, the prospect of alien visitation has continued to thrill earthlings ever since.
    — William Falk, The Week, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Unbeknownst to most earthlings, the moon is experiencing a crisis.
    — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
  • But the earthlings in the story are very much the negative example, having fled to outer space after destroying their home planet.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The story line has nothing to do with Queen but instead centers on a tale about rebel Earthlings overthrowing their cruel overlords.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • But this is not 1961, a time when earthlings weren’t concerned about spreading their biological junk off planet.
    — Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024

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