How to Use flying saucer in a Sentence
flying saucer
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The flying saucer myth is alive and well in this movie.
—K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 20 July 2022
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The dumplings look like mini flying saucers on the plate.
—Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2023
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Could the client order up a car that looks like, say, a flying saucer?
—WSJ, 27 May 2021
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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
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The largest make a wavering sound, like a flying saucer in a 1950s sci-fi film.
—Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 15 Mar. 2021
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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
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Small wonder that in the heat of summer that year, flying saucers became all the rage.
—Donovan Webster, Smithsonian, 5 July 2017
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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
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The West Antarctic ice sheet looks, in profile, like a flying saucer that has landed on the sea-floor.
—The Economist, 17 Aug. 2019
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Meanwhile, the kitchen's round oven and vent hood give off major flying saucer vibes.
—Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 15 Dec. 2020
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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
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That’s why, one night, a flying saucer crashes in his backyard.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2023
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The short-term rental unit features a flying saucer and all the modern conveniences.
—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars.
—New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Peak hurricane season is bearing down on us like that flying saucer in the movie Nope.
—Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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The post-World War II flying saucer craze still rivets the imagination.
—Fox News, 3 Mar. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That train — and flying saucer — arrive Monday, right on schedule.
—Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2022
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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
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