Sentence examples for they were alien from inspiring English sources

They were alien and strange creatures.

But there they were, alien as hallucinations and symbolic of a motorized recreation trend that is coming into increasing conflict with other forms of forest use, as well as some fundamental values associated with wild places.

Though it reflected many deeply held political and economic grievances, particularly the feeling that the heathen foreigners were interfering with a part of the world to which they were alien, the uprising was consistently articulated as a defensive action against the inroads missionaries and their ideas were making in India, combined with a generalised fight for freedom from western occupation.

But beyond that, to the extent that they were creepy, they were aliens.

Majok, who schedules meals and meditation alarms on his cellphone, looked at them as if they were aliens.

There were already hundreds of enemy combatants in custody, but they were aliens seized in Afghanistan and Pakistan and detained at the American naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Women walked painted in white as though they were aliens.

They were aliens ineligible for citizenship, but they were also ineligible for enslavement.

They looked just like people but for some reason I knew they were aliens.

What if they were aliens!!! (Cue dramatic music, and that meme of the stoned dude with the weird hair).

She pressed her nose against the glass and gazed at the jellyfish as if they were aliens from another world, which, in a sense, they were.