Example sentences for: extraterrestrials

How can you use “extraterrestrials” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The language of extraterrestrials merits only passing mention in Lunatic Lovers of Language, which deals with the development of artificial languages and with the search for language universals, characteristics that many (or all) languages share and that lend credence to the notion that there was only one original language from which the present stock has liverged.

  • The WSJ reports that, according to an MIT survey, Americans are twice as likely to back a tax increase going toward the search for extraterrestrials than one for gene-cloning research.

  • Many writers avoid the language problem by introducing mental telepathy as the means of communication, which is just as well: human speech employs the available organs situated between the lungs and the face, and there is no reason to assume that fish-faced or vegetablelike or otherwise constituted extraterrestrials would be endowed with like equipment (any more than are many nonhuman creatures on earth), and they would thus be unlikely to use languages constructed for humans.

  • The fictional extraterrestrials of Star Trek or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors.

  • Start with something plausible--say, a new woman claiming to have had an adventure with the president--and work your way up to the outbreaks of major wars, visits by extraterrestrials, people who actually believe a browser shouldn't be integrated into the operating system, and similar hard-to-believe phenomena.


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