How to Use extraterrestrial in a Sentence

extraterrestrial

1 of 2 adjective
  • But what if extraterrestrial life does not look like any beings we’re used to on Earth?
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2023
  • This extraterrestrial event takes place when the moon is at its farthest point from Earth.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • That leads to an extraterrestrial supply chain that upends the one on Earth.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That left a gaping void into which extraterrestrial truthers could put just about anything.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Yeah, so there’s black holes, there’s the Big Bang, there’s search for [extraterrestrial] life.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
  • In the film, the idea of extraterrestrial existence is used as a means for financial gain.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 13 June 2026
  • And what of the satellites that humans have sent into space with messages for extraterrestrial life?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Oct. 2023
  • And then his entire body sprouts that extraterrestrial armor.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The city now has a permanent reminder of the extraterrestrial tale.
    — Blake Kaplan The Sun Herald (tns), al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • One of the sites turned up the five extraterrestrial rocks, per New Scientist.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Jan. 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 scientific search for extraterrestrial life is alive and well.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Europa has long been considered an area of focus for extraterrestrial life.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • His was a vision of extraterrestrial life as commonplace as a roadside diner.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • That ominous drip of extraterrestrial drool.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Real scientists all over the world are searching for extraterrestrial life.
    — Brianne Kane, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • What inspired you to research a book about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence?
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The first film follows an adorable blue extraterrestrial creature who crash-lands in Hawaii and gets adopted by a young girl and her older sister.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 18 Mar. 2026
  • However, the space agency doesn’t believe that the string is extraterrestrial in nature.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 July 2022
  • The agency in charge of making maps and looking at Earth is now preparing to do the same for extraterrestrial bodies.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • These could be the best places in our solar system to look for extraterrestrial life, according to the researchers looking inside icy moons.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • Suddenly, onions were purple brick walls, cotton T-shirts were cobwebs, my own skin was full of extraterrestrial craters and rivers.
    — Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • This brings the laptop below the $1,000 mark, a rare find from the extraterrestrial gaming brand.
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
  • 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
  • Yet, only one direct search for extraterrestrial life has ever been conducted.
    — Joel S. Levine, The Conversation, 8 Sep. 2025

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
  • What did this have to do with extraterrestrials?
    — F.d. Flam, Twin Cities, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In that sense, does this movie feel like your final say about extraterrestrials?
    — Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 7 June 2026
  • That smell from all those covert extraterrestrials — ewwwwwww.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2019
  • Maybe extraterrestrials will be able to figure this out after all.
    — Cory Zapatka, The Verge, 30 Oct. 2018
  • Ghastly new-age portraits of a bald person, or maybe a bald extraterrestrial.
    — New York Times, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Below is a look at the art and design of some of film's most memorable extraterrestrials.
    — Ryan Britt, CNN, 18 May 2017
  • If extraterrestrials can be covered up, what else is being hidden?
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Saldaña has built a career bringing extraterrestrials to the big screen.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The real extraterrestrials may not be little gray men, but little gray boxes.
    — Rex Crum, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2017
  • The series is immersive even before any extraterrestrials try to hug your face.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The following ghosts, monsters, and extraterrestrials just may haunt your dreams.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • But then Jennifer appears in her kitchen, claiming to be an extraterrestrial.
    — Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • There's a time and place for everything, including an extraterrestrial who wants to take over Earth.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • However, the actress is too afraid of the series' menacing extraterrestrials to watch the show alone.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Okay, but that’s what a guy who saw evidence during their presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us would say.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Crucially, Ngai says, the term for extraterrestrials flowed from the word for foreigners, not the other way around.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • The findings apply if those extraterrestrials explore their own cosmic backyards in a way similar to us.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Sincere believers in the extraterrestrial are framed as kooky punchlines across news, TV and film.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2021
  • After all, if extraterrestrials are unaware of our world and its properties, what would spur them to transmit signals in our direction?
    — NBC News, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Bowie may be associated in the public mind with songs about space and extraterrestrials, but these are songs about living on earth and striving for the heavens.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Perhaps extraterrestrials are treating Earth as a wilderness area.
    — National Geographic, 18 Feb. 2016
  • This scale not only gave scientists a new framework for thinking about extraterrestrials, but also a new way to think about humanity.
    — Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • As to the object’s origin, speculation ranged from the extraterrestrial to someone’s attempt at art.
    — Sunset Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • During a lightning round of questions, Obama was asked by Cohen about extraterrestrials and played along.
    — Adisa Hargett-Robinson, The Washington Examiner, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Yes, a new Steven Spielberg movie about close encounters with extraterrestrials is landing — and misses the mark.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • Alan Tudyk plays an extraterrestrial who crashes on Earth and wants to destroy humanity.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025

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