Example sentences for: extraterrestrials

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

  • 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.

  • --” [XV,4], but that article dealt with words and not languages, and, with a few exceptions, with words used by humans in some future time, not by extraterrestrials (either now or in the future).

  • Barry ( Get Shorty ) Sonnenfeld's shamelessly silly comedy about government agents who police extraterrestrials is hailed as the most offbeat and enjoyable blockbuster of the summer.

  • 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.

  • 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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