Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigSuggestions(2)
The phrase "alien but" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to introduce a contrast or exception regarding something that is foreign or unfamiliar.
Example: "The creature was alien but surprisingly friendly, defying all expectations."
Alternatives: "foreign yet" or "strange yet".
Exact(60)
He compared his script to Aliens, which was a very different film from Alien, but still in the same continuity.
I was three years old when he first conceived the idea for Alien, but it's timeless.
We were trespassers then, cautiously intruding on an alien but seductive world.
Spiders might look a bit alien, but they are crucial to the environment we live in.
[It] has scenes like you get in Alien, but with Santa.
On one channel, they reassured voters that he was not an alien, but a normal American patriot.
Weber was officially an enemy alien, but the intellectual freedom, she recalled, compared to wartime Göttingen was liberating.
He likes classics like 2001 and Alien but he never watched Star Trek as a kid, he says.
The part I was given, Nyssa, might have been an alien, but we were around the same age.
My deepest fear is not that the outrage economy remains alien but that we enter it wholeheartedly.
Everyone could seem an alien, but there would be times when you suspect that alien is you.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com