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How to use alien in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, adjective, verb

Alien means a person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. Example: “Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations in the depths of outer space.”

Examples of alien by meaning

nounA person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under...

  • An animated film intended to inform travellers about the dangers that alien species present to Arctic ecosystems is being released today.2023 March 21 (last accessed), NOBANIS: European Network on Invasive Species

nounA citizen or national of another sovereign state.

  • Aliens are aliens because of persecution or war or hardship or famine.2004, Wesley Campbell, Stephen Court, Be a hero: the battle for mercy and social justice, Destiny Image Publishers, page 74

adjectiveNot belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign.

  • alien subjects, enemies, property, or shores

adjectiveVery unfamiliar, strange, or removed.

  • principles alien to our religion

More sentences with alien

  • Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations in the depths of outer space.From the entry outer space
  • A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.From the entry canon
  • The aliens in the science-fiction film wanted to assimilate human beings into their own race.From the entry assimilate
  • As I recall, his book had to do with alien abductions.From the entry to do with
  • The evil aliens' death rays could not penetrate our mighty force fields!From the entry death ray
  • If you meet a pentacephalous alien, get ready to have five very long conversations one after another.From the entry pentacephalous
  • In this video game, you play a marine attempting the recontainment of an escaped alien species.From the entry recontainment
  • While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.From the entry breathe
  • I know that aliens are there, somewhere.From the entry there
  • Aliens have a nefarious connotation in many science fiction books.From the entry nefarious
  • It's highly improbable that aliens abducted you.From the entry improbable
  • The LAPD has asked Angelenos not to shoot at the alien spaceship, fearing it might trigger an interstellar war.From the entry Angeleno
  • Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.From the entry infected
  • The evil alien pointed a death ray at me and ordered me to start marching toward the distant fortress!From the entry death ray
  • The aliens adopted human form in order to blend in.From the entry blend in
  • Most pop-culture depictions of aliens are epalpebrate.From the entry epalpebrate
  • The aliens were armed with an array of death-dealing weapons.From the entry death-dealing
  • It's life, but not as we know it. She discovered plant life on the planet. The rover discovered signs of life on the alien world.From the entry life
  • There, in this engineered quietude, the dearth of sound grows profound, rendering the space uncannily alien.2026 June 29, A. S. Bariwch, The Senses: Perception and Experience (Cambridge Elements: Elements in Philosophy of Mind), Cambridge…. From the entry quietude
  • Some of these old standards will feel alien to zoomers and alphas.2025 September 28, Rachel Aroesti, “In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?”, in The…. From the entry alpha
  • You'll be joining the war against the Scourge, an alien race of soulless, ruthless automatons.”2024 August 12, Joe Saunders, “The Battle of Zab 9” (1:00 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Screaming…. From the entry planetfall
  • I haven’t even mentioned the “green space aliens” on the Outback.2023 June 17, Ernest Herndon, “Doing battle with ‘green space aliens’—in yard”, in Enterprise-Journal, 133rd year, number 45, McComb…. From the entry hedge-trimmer
  • It was a risk a person always ran when trying food from an alien planet.2022, Kate Rudolph, chapter 11, in Cipher: Dragon Brides, Intergalactic Dating Agency Book 4, Celestial Heart Press, →ISBN. From the entry cock ache
  • I am so sunk in the work’s psychology, I feel almost an alien, some renewing life form.2021 January 7, Jillian Tamaki, “How the Bible Divided, and United, Allan Gurganus and His Father”, in New York Times. From the entry renewing
  • The things which have replaced them are not human but alien, ill-proportioned pillars of pinkish-brownish flesh.2019 April 10, qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 137. From the entry protuberance
  • “I take it one step further and ask, ‘Was Jackie an alien?2018 February 21, Jessica Iredale, “Moschino RTW Fall 2018”, in Women’s Wear Daily. From the entry haute
  • Instead, the Geth are another alien race, just a synthetic one, created by the Quarians.2017, Jordan Erica Webber, Daniel Griliopoulos, “Philosophy of mind”, in Ten Things Video Games can Teach Us, Little, Brown Book Group…. From the entry realisability
  • Alien Day is an unofficial holiday for fans of the iconic space-horror franchise.2017, Josie Griffiths, “What is Alien Day, why is it today, what special events are taking place and when is Alien: Covenant out?”, in The…. From the entry Alien Day
  • Such carnophobia aside, the aliens were surely right to be puzzled.2016, Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page xiv. From the entry carnophobia
  • Meanwhile, to a humanities scholar, the hyperauthorship at the scale seen in high-energy physics seems completely alien.2015 May 26, Ernesto Priego, “Long lists are eroding the value of being a scientific author”, in The Conversation, archived from the…. From the entry hyperauthorship
  • The alien gently manoeuvred the ship out of the gape-mouthed bay.2014, KS Augustin, Quinten's Revenge, →ISBN. From the entry gape-mouthed
  • Yet here on the home planet we have profoundly strange aliens of our own.2013 September 6, Philip Hoare, “If we're all Martians, who are the aliens?”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, archived from…. From the entry one
  • These aliens had heard about Hoomans, but none of them had ever seen one.2013 10, Richard H. Wildey, A Chance to Learn the Secrets of the Ancients, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 445. From the entry hooman
  • But the third most common alien is called a Nordic, or humanoid.2012, Kelly Milner Halls, Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens, Millbrook Press, page 45. From the entry nordic
  • Okrand invented Klingon, a language he intentionally designed to sound “alien.”2012 October 31, Laura Wright, “UT Language Creation Society invites students to learn origins of newer languages”, in The Daily Texan…. From the entry conlanger
  • Simon felt a thrill course through him as the two alien vessels swelled in his sights.2012, Mark E. Burgess, The Battle for Eden. From the entry spaceforce

Meaning of alien

  1. noun A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.
  2. noun A citizen or national of another sovereign state.
  3. noun A mischievous or suspicious foreigner.

Full definition of alien

Questions about alien in a sentence

How do you use alien in a sentence?
Alien is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Science fiction often imagines alien civilizations in the depths of outer space.”
What is a short sentence with alien?
“principles alien to our religion”
What does alien mean?
Alien means a person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: alien (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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