Sentence examples for alien cities from inspiring English sources

Confronted by alien cities, villagers tried to recreate those enclaves.

In alien cities we'll / remain, like trees, like stones".

For a greenhorn, the traffic offers a novel perspective on an alien city.

Embassytown is a human diplomatic enclave in the middle of an alien city on Arieka, a planet at the outer edge of the known universe.

In the 1968 essay "An Alien City," he recalled his boyhood impression of Jerusalem's inhabitants: "A taciturn, sullen race, always seemingly quelling an inner dread.

In the dead of night, in spite of the electric lights, London seems an alien city, especially if you are walking through it alone.

So you've just arrived at a completely unfamiliar alien city on an unknown planet at any possible point in time.

It presents Anthony as a mysterious blend of canny intuition and near-Martian naivety as he wanders the alien city – his perceptions are fresh, melancholic, original.

Readers who can get past the slow build-up and the sometimes heavy-handed moralizing may find themselves caring deeply about both sides; Zettel even manages to wring pathos out of the demise of an alien city.

I was waiting for a glowing, reef-like structure to reveal itself beneath the water, like an alien city.

These mysteries remain unexplained even today, except for some theories that say that this was an ancient alien city.