How to Use flying saucer in a Sentence

flying saucer

noun

• The flying saucer myth is alive and well in this movie.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2022
• The dumplings look like mini flying saucers on the plate.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
• Could the client order up a car that looks like, say, a flying saucer?
  — WSJ, 27 May 2021
• The early stages of the flying saucer age really is the story of the start of the Cold War.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The largest make a wavering sound, like a flying saucer in a 1950s sci-fi film.
  — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2021
• And then the next day saw a picture from the 1950s of a flying saucer and two people running away from it.
  — Joe Lynch, Billboard, 23 May 2018
• Small wonder that in the heat of summer that year, flying saucers became all the rage.
  — Donovan Webster, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
• But the Louvre appears, at first glance, to be a flying saucer that has crash-landed on the beach.
  — John Arlidge, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023
• The West Antarctic ice sheet looks, in profile, like a flying saucer that has landed on the sea-floor.
  — The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, the kitchen's round oven and vent hood give off major flying saucer vibes.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 15 Dec. 2020
• Seventy years ago, claims of flying saucers around Washington were the talk of the town and front pages.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• That’s why, one night, a flying saucer crashes in his backyard.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2023
• The short-term rental unit features a flying saucer and all the modern conveniences.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
• It was shaped like a flying saucer, a dark grey gash in the sky that struck a stark contrast with the puffy white cloud rising up behind it.
  — Lane Sainty, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2022
• The field is the same except a small flying saucer that glided by the first time is now larger and thus getting closer.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2020
• The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• In just over a decade, a small capsule shaped like a flying saucer will blaze in from space and smash into an empty Utah desert.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 21 Nov. 2019
• The apparent shapes of the aircraft — one saucer-like, the other like a Tic Tac — are due to glare on the lens of the camera, not proof of flying saucers, West maintains.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2021
• In 1953, six women claimed to have watched a flying saucer passing back and forth over Eklutna for two hours.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Peak hurricane season is bearing down on us like that flying saucer in the movie Nope.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
• One night in 1977, George Clinton stepped out of a flying saucer, teetering in his new pair of nine-inch platform boots.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 12 May 2021
• Suspended from the conical peak of each yurt is a fixture shaped like a flying saucer that gives off both heat and light.
  — New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021
• The post-World War II flying saucer craze still rivets the imagination.
  — Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
• But the scientists involved in the project considered them crackpots and doggedly tried to negate the idea of flying saucers.
  — Meghan Bartels, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2018
• This set has everything kids need to make up their own games, including a flying saucer, wavy slide and two sling swings.
  — Amanda McElfresh, NOLA.com, 26 Nov. 2020
• On their first day back at camp after a long school year, a group of four friends skip their curfew and, while outside their bunks, witness the crash of a flying saucer.
  — Jamie Lang, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
• Each playground has a long, fast slide and a large climbing structure that could pass for a flying saucer crossed with a trampoline.
  — Steve Rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
• The video starts when the heat shield drops away - that's the flying saucer-like thing right at the beginning, which was also seen from space by the MRO spacecraft orbiting Mars .
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2012
• That train — and flying saucer — arrive Monday, right on schedule.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
• If the string section on stage wasn’t spectacle enough, ELO also descended in a flying saucer full of lights and fog.
  — Nathan Powers, oregonlive.com, 25 June 2019

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024