How to Use martian in a Sentence

martian

adjective
  • What would a Martian childhood be like?
    — Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
  • If a leg breaks in a Martian dust storm, the mission doesn’t end.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026
  • David Harewood wants the Martian to get drunk and sing karaoke.
    — Jevon Phillips, latimes.com, 24 July 2017
  • That hasn’t stopped people from imaging what hanging out on martian soil might be like, though.
    — Liz Stinson, Curbed, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The 310 kg rover will traverse the martian landscape on six wheels.
    — Evan Ackermanerico Guizzo, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Almost all occurred on the windiest Martian sols, or days.
    — Marcia Dunn The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 27 Nov. 2025
  • After a final check, the blades adjusted their pitch and managed to beat enough of the thin martian air to rise.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2021
  • If in fifteen years there are no Martian homesteaders, who will be their market?
    — George Pendle, Esquire, 28 Mar. 2017
  • As for a mission to return Martian samples, that was—but is no longer—in its early stages.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 1 June 2026
  • On that summer day five years ago, the Wyoming countryside seemed cast in a red, Martian glow.
    — Joe Sills, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • Visible changes to the Martian surface are more often marked by millions of years, not by dozens of them.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Kelly Baldwin gives birth to her son, Alex, in Martian orbit.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The level is typically low, often in the parts per trillion range, and seems to rise and fall as martian seasons change.
    — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 24 June 2019
  • This could create a foundation for bringing Martian rocks to Earth.
    — Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Season 2 builds to a climax where Martian attempts to prove his loyalty.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 June 2026
  • Firstly, these natural shelters could yield signs of ancient Martian life.
    — Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The Martian simulant also produced these, as well as sodium.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Its design proved that small, lightweight rovers could survive and operate on the Martian surface.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
  • As winds eventually dispersed the sand on top, the negative space where the dune once stood was preserved as a pit on the martian surface.
    — Frankie Schembri, Science | AAAS, 11 July 2018
  • Its martian robots are assembled in cleanrooms, with many components baked in ovens or doused in chemicals.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Mars 2020 will carry two tools to study martian samples on a microscopic scale.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
  • If all goes to plan, the vehicles will arrive in Martian orbit in 2027.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
  • The Dry Valleys may well be our closest equivalent to a Martian landscape.
    — Photographs and Text By Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 29 May 2017
  • Watney ekes out an existence by eating potatoes sowed in Martian soil fertilized by his own feces.
    — Big Think, 19 Feb. 2026
  • One of Odyssey’s instruments measures the neutrons kicked up from the martian surface by cosmic rays striking the planet.
    — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 16 Aug. 2017
  • Its purpose is simply to demonstrate the feasibility of flight in the thin martian atmosphere.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 28 July 2020
  • The team also wants the cache to include a tube containing nothing but air, an important resource for those who study the martian atmosphere.
    — Byeric Hand, science.org, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Though the Moon is now the front-runner, SpaceX plans to break ground on a Martian city within the next five to seven years.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Some were orbiters that would study martian winds, weather, or tiny variations in the planet’s gravitational pull.
    — Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Rovers on Mars are searching for traces of similar microbial structures in ancient Martian lake beds.
    — Photographs and Text By Jonathan Corum, New York Times, 29 May 2017

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