Sentence examples for Earthling from inspiring English sources

"Earthling" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to a person who lives on the Earth, particularly in a sci-fi context. For example, "The alien visitor was shocked to see how different the Earthlings' culture was from its own."

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Earthling

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An inhabitant of the planet Earth.

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At times, the journey of bemused earthling Arthur Dent, his alien companions and his totally unbemused fellow earthling, Trillian, is as wacky and entertaining as it was a quarter of a century ago, when the idea first crackled over the airwaves of the BBC.

Specifically, with the release on December 29th of an official space-policy paper, it has said it wants to send people to the moon.The last earthling to leave a footprint on the lunar surface, Eugene Cernan, did so in 1972.

Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems (1991) collects poetry from 1965 to 1990.

American actor who, had a long career filled with quirky, endearingly cranky characters on the stage, in movies, and on television but was especially popular as the extraterrestrial masquerading as Bill Bixby's earthling Uncle Martin in the TV series My Favorite Martian in the mid-1960s.

There are 60 items of stage-wear, among them his infamous Ziggy Stardust jumpsuit, Kansai Yamamoto's creations for the 1973 Aladdin Sane tour and the Union Jack coat designed by Bowie and Alexander McQueen for his 1997 Earthling album cover.

From an Earthly perspective, the word water always refers to the stuff that an Earthling might point to, whereas on Twin Earth it refers to the stuff that a Twin Earthling might point to.

Bening and Shandling — the earthling and the reconstructed alien — stand facing each other to reaffirm their marital vows.

Ryan Reynolds, as the earthling appointed to continue the Guardians' struggle against fear, looks amused, abashed, and highly dubious as he pledges allegiance to a green lantern, the source of ultimate power.

Her name was Fatma, and she was squatting beside a charcoal brazier, cooking her family's dinner and answering my questions about oppression with the terse forbearance of an earthling suddenly confronted with a chatty alien, when I thought to ask her what was in her pot.

For a movie about the need for real men — lusty, loyal, and loaded — this unusual earthling is truly a most peculiar advertisement for the gender.

The suave Saturnian described by Voltaire in a satirical 1752 story, "Micromégas," looks like an earthling, except that he's six thousand feet tall.

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