How to Use earthling in a Sentence

earthling

noun

• That would be good to know if down the road colonies of earthlings intend to make the moon home.
  — Mará Rose Williams, kansascity.com, 6 June 2017
• And your precious Janet cannot save you now, earthlings.
  — Sarah Bichsel, baltimoresun.com, 6 Jan. 2018
• But have no fear, freezing earthlings north of the equator — there is a bright side!
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 21 Dec. 2023
• Mars Day is also the one time a year that an Earthling can get up close and personal with the Red Planet.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 20 July 2017
• Most Earthlings have yet to buy a PC and probably never will.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Dec. 1998
• For the average earthling, the main question is: What does cosmic wine taste like?
  — Masha MacPherson and Angela Charlton, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
• Adam's cult classic is sure to thrill every earthling, just be sure to bring along a towel and don't panic.
  — Nina Wladkowski, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 Aug. 2017
• From an earthling’s perspective, the moon will be too small to blot out the sun entirely, leaving fiery tendrils at the edge of a deep black disk.
  — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• Aliens from outer space promise earthlings all good things.
  — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023
• For decades, earthlings have dispatched spacecraft to Mars to study the planet's dusty surface and its thin atmosphere.
  — Shelby Grad, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• Moss delivered the line in a slow whisper, like an alien observing an earthling.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2022
• Luckily for us earthlings, there's no chance that the nucleus will collide with Earth.
  — David Freeman, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2019
• Who will decide which earthlings are admitted into the colonies?
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2019
• The findings have implications for more than just earthlings.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 14 July 2017
• One year ago today, humanity got its first close look at a world that has managed to command the passions of Earthlings from billions of miles away.
  — National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• Since Beyoncé is the only one who wakes up looking perfect, the rest of us earthlings might need a little help in how-to-get-gorgeous-skin department.
  — Carly Cadellino, Seventeen, 30 Sep. 2015
• Instead, the natural environment of the Na’vi (those thin, blue-skinned Pandorans) slowly is taking over the structures left by the film’s earthlings.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 May 2017
• Hopefully, the astronauts can watch it shortly thereafter and avoid spoilers from us earthlings.
  — Sarah Begley, Time, 13 Dec. 2017
• This new gray colorway does give off serious celestial vibes, though, which is perfect for earthlings with a penchant for space.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
• There's no guarantee that the spacecraft will reach their destinations safely, but millions of earthlings will be rooting for them.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Jan. 2021
• But the earthlings in the story are very much the negative example, having fled to outer space after destroying their home planet.
  — Sarah Begley, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
• Through an alien who feeds on earthlings, the movie tackles exploitation, spectacle and whether wild animals can never be truly tamed.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 June 2023
• This was partly because the ancients believed burning incense was a way of connecting earthlings with the gods, according to The Perfume Society.
  — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 5 Aug. 2016
• This was partly because the ancients believed burning incense was a way of connecting earthlings with the gods, according to The Perfume Society.
  — Kelsey Kloss, ELLE Decor, 5 Aug. 2016
• In various guises, the prospect of alien visitation has continued to thrill earthlings ever since.
  — William Falk, The Week, 20 Feb. 2023
• In space, an unplanned mishap shoots the Jupiter 2 toward an unknown, beautiful but often unfriendly planet with — what are the odds? — an earthling-friendly atmosphere.
  — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2018
• But the writers warn that earthlings will need a sufficient warning time, ideally decades in advance or several years at a minimum, to mitigate such a threat.
  — Umar Shakir, The Verge, 3 Mar. 2023
• Advanced Intelligence If intelligent life is nearby, the most straightforward way to find earthlings would be to listen for us.
  — National Geographic, 26 Mar. 2018
• Unbeknownst to most earthlings, the moon is experiencing a crisis.
  — Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Decades before anyone had built a rocket, earthlings had already argued in science fiction about who is more suited for space travel: humans or machines.
  — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024