How to Use flying saucer in a Sentence

flying saucer

noun
  • Could the client order up a car that looks like, say, a flying saucer?
    — WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • Quit joking around about little green men and flying saucers.
    — Sarah Polus, The Hill, 22 Mar. 2025
  • That’s why, one night, a flying saucer crashes in his backyard.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, the kitchen's round oven and vent hood give off major flying saucer vibes.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 15 Dec. 2020
  • Small wonder that in the heat of summer that year, flying saucers became all the rage.
    — Donovan Webster, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
  • On a screen above the stage, a flying saucer descended—an image that still lingers in my mind.
    — Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The short-term rental unit features a flying saucer and all the modern conveniences.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But the Louvre appears, at first glance, to be a flying saucer that has crash-landed on the beach.
    — John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Lush lumps of rock crab arrived in a flying saucer made of ice and covered with kohlrabi shaved thin as a layer of frost.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This set has everything kids need to make up their own games, including a flying saucer, wavy slide and two sling swings.
    — Amanda McElfresh, NOLA.com, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The largest make a wavering sound, like a flying saucer in a 1950s sci-fi film.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2021
  • That train — and flying saucer — arrive Monday, right on schedule.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Peak hurricane season is bearing down on us like that flying saucer in the movie Nope.
    — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
  • It was shaped like a flying saucer, a dark grey gash in the sky that struck a stark contrast with the puffy white cloud rising up behind it.
    — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
  • The field is the same except a small flying saucer that glided by the first time is now larger and thus getting closer.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • For starters, this concrete bunker would look like a flying saucer from outside and feature a rooftop helipad.
    — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 13 July 2020
  • Suspended from the conical peak of each yurt is a fixture shaped like a flying saucer that gives off both heat and light.
    — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
  • Seventy years ago, claims of flying saucers around Washington were the talk of the town and front pages.
    — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
  • In just over a decade, a small capsule shaped like a flying saucer will blaze in from space and smash into an empty Utah desert.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Each playground has a long, fast slide and a large climbing structure that could pass for a flying saucer crossed with a trampoline.
    — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Each dot on the map above represents a single buoy, an object about five feet wide that resembles a flying saucer.
    — Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The West Antarctic ice sheet looks, in profile, like a flying saucer that has landed on the sea-floor.
    — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The early stages of the flying saucer age really is the story of the start of the Cold War.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And then the next day saw a picture from the 1950s of a flying saucer and two people running away from it.
    — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 May 2018
  • Its quiet assurance that experts had a handle on flying saucers and a plan to meet them felt comforting.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
  • This clue, however, is about flying saucers and the answer is ETS.
    — Deb Amlen, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Moving even faster than the train is a flying saucer emanating a bright cone of light and clearly intent on beaming up the damsel.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
  • On their first day back at camp after a long school year, a group of four friends skip their curfew and, while outside their bunks, witness the crash of a flying saucer.
    — Jamie Lang, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Behind a wire fence a huge, silver dome, more than a quarter-mile in circumference, rose from the grass like a giant flying saucer.
    — Henrik Knudsen, Smithsonian, 26 June 2018
  • That wasn’t the case last week when, during an already-stunning sunrise, a giant lenticular cloud formed over the peak like a flying saucer.
    — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018

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