How to Use unearthly in a Sentence

unearthly

adjective

• We left at the unearthly time of 5:00 a.m.
• The hounds of the unearthly Wild Hunt may be the best known of these ghostly dogs.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton, sacbee, 27 Oct. 2017
• Still, echoes of a vanished bounty linger in the unearthly silences of the Ustyurt Plateau.
  — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2016
• As his boat leaves the dock, his dog, which has been brought to see him off, releases an unearthly howl.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2018
• Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to an unearthly figure with blood dripping down its fangs.
  — Baland Jalal, Scientific American, 15 July 2020
• The flowers, of course, are stunning, unearthly, and beloved by bees and butterflies.
  — Kenneth Setzer, miamiherald, 27 June 2018
• Soon the rover should drive down the ramp of its landing platform, ready to explore its unearthly surroundings.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 14 May 2021
• And so Cassini will wave goodbye with a flash of unearthly light that no humans, at least, may ever see.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• It is also believed that fairy rings are portals to unearthly worlds.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2017
• The concept was so unearthly, in fact, that private aviation first took off not as a means of transportation, but as a sideshow of sorts.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 17 Oct. 2019
• Those unearthly appendages probed the empty space between us, tasting the air.
  — Jacob Brogan, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
• Butterflies frolicked through the fields of sage, which glowed its unearthly shade of purple-green in the bright afternoon sun.
  — Jamie Hale, OregonLive.com, 1 July 2017
• At lower altitudes, though, the weak but insistent wind can have its way with softer rocks, and that is the unearthly way in which Mount Sharp was made.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2020
• The Nighthawk is a mean-looking jet, borderline unearthly.
  — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2019
• Those unearthly howls, shrieks, and grunts that burst out of tennis players' mouths may do more than just fill the silence of tennis stadiums.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010
• Yet, within 20 minutes, a fog bank from Puget Sound feathered up the valley, devouring the views as the sun imbued the mist with unearthly yellows and blues.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023
• And there aren’t enough words of praise for Erik Friedlander’s unearthly musical score.
  — Colin Covert, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2018
• In this translation from the Arabic by Jonathan Wright, Saadawi blends the unearthly, the horrific and the mundane to terrific effect.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2018
• Set the feedback to infinite and create an unearthly wall of sound or push in the Lo-Fi button for extra vintage flavor.
  — Popular Science, 27 Oct. 2020
• The membrane between this world and the other is permeable; unearthly beings ooze through.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
• Magic, a kind of sorcery, was practiced by the brujas, who dallied with unearthly presences.
  — Desideria Mesa, Good Housekeeping, 29 Oct. 2022
• That unearthly scene with the technicians and the silver air penguins in the spotless corporate atrium….
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2010
• The unearthly chorus this makes—think of a mobile orchestra of chicken-sized didgeridoos—rises up from the vast and glorious Wyoming steppe.
  — The Economist, 3 May 2018
• Immediately an unearthly chorus of wails answered the poor wretch from his friends outside the walls.
  — William Gurstelle, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2017
• Your story about an unearthly black dog or a benevolent poltergeist may entertain me or even give me a chill.
  — Jess Zimmerman, The Cut, 31 Oct. 2017
• To see the blossoms amid the mist was to glimpse a rare, almost unearthly moment, beyond what might rightfully be expected of any morning, day or season.
  — Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2022
• Tina Turner, a superstar, a legend, an unearthly force, and a source of inspiration for millions of people across the globe, continues to leave her mark on the world in more ways than one.
  — Talia Smith, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Mar. 2021
• If any of these projects come to fruition, astronomers might solve these abiding mysteries — or uncover an even more puzzling trove of unearthly delights.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Aug. 2023
• Fitted with an intricate basket-weave pattern in a sheenless flat black, the pieces set a Shaker dinner table in the Brick Dwelling with unearthly stillness.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2021
• With the addition of an unearthly presence, there's definitely some parallels to Stranger Things in this show.
  — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 12 July 2019

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