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Example sentences for "alien"

Lexicographically close words:
alicuius; alicujus; alid; alidade; alie; aliena; alienable; alienage; alienate; alienated
  1. Wales, owing largely to its geography, had the misfortune never to be conquered at one fell swoop by an alien race of conquerors.

  2. We were meeting in a strange land, amid an ancient but alien civilization, which some of us liked and some disliked, but which none of us could quite understand.

  3. Judaism meant more to them in a strange land, amid an alien people, living the hard and unlovely life of the common soldier, than it ever did at home when the schul was just around the corner and the careless youth had seldom entered it.

  4. Under the Sequestration Act receivers were appointed in each county to take possession of all property belonging to alien enemies.

  5. In December, 1861, a law was passed by the legislature which provided that no suit by or for an alien enemy for debt or money should be prosecuted in any court in Alabama.

  6. The government imposed upon Alabama after the voters had fairly rejected it according to act of Congress was administered by the most worthless and incompetent of whites--alien and native--and negroes.

  7. As conditions were at that time, even the best plan for the education of the negro by alien agencies would have failed.

  8. The alien agents were opposed to Swayne's plan of appointing native whites as agents, and told him tales of outrage that had been committed, but he paid no attention to them.

  9. It is certain that the prosperity of the white counties which in 1870 got rid of the alien local officials had much to do with allaying disorder.

  10. But do not, we implore you, abdicate your rule over us, by transferring us to the blighting brutality and unnatural dominion of an alien and inferior race.

  11. No execution was to be issued to an alien enemy, and suits already brought could be dismissed on the motion of the defendant.

  12. His observations as to the effects of alien efforts to educate the black will be found in the Slater Fund Occasional Papers, and in an address delivered before the Montgomery Conference in 1900.

  13. The negro was taken from his master's care and in alien schools and churches taught that in all relations of life the southern white man was his enemy.

  14. The alien element was in control of the League.

  15. Men got up and greeted him effusively, watching Alvina between whiles as if she were some alien creature.

  16. His yellow-tawny eyes looked down into hers, alien and overbearing.

  17. It all seemed alien to her, bruising upon the spirit.

  18. She would see the eyes rolling strangely under sardonic eyelids, and then Miss Frost would feel that never, never had she known anything so utterly alien and incomprehensible and unsympathetic as her own beloved Vina.

  19. But these others, how alien and uncouth he felt them.

  20. Once more, fighting broke out; and again the temple of the alien gods was destroyed, only to be rebuilt again.

  21. At first, the new faith would be rejected as an alien invader, stigmatized as a foreign religion, and, as such, sure to invoke the wrath of the native gods.

  22. In a word, knowledge of the opposing religion, and especially of alien language, literature and ways of feeling and thinking, lengthens missionary life.

  23. Sincerely they loved nature, and in some respects they seemed to understand the character of their country far better than the alien does or can.

  24. So alien that she could feel nothing but detached wonder at his infinite loss.

  25. But as you see Parisian dresses under an alien sky, so you see Italian villas with excrescences which no stove can warm, and Tudor mansions with gables which hold all the snow.

  26. In the Norman conquest of England historical optimism sees a great political and intellectual blessing beneath the disguise of barbarous havoc and alien tyranny.

  27. Neither was any alien suffered to manage a trade or factory in any of them.

  28. By this means, the person alien is completely naturalized to all intents and purposes.

  29. The Jewish people always produced their kings from their own midst, while the Edomites had to go to alien peoples to secure theirs.

  30. It is remarkable how tenaciously Freneau preserved the acquisitions of his early classical studies, notwithstanding he had for many years, in the after portion of his life, been occupied in pursuits so entirely alien to books.

  31. Here I am in an alien land; a thousand fiery crosses would not bring one clansman to my side; I cannot fight my foe.

  32. One had the tendency to overlook the narrow-shouldered, cylindrical body and the elongated tarsal and carpal bones that gave his limbs four major articulations rather than the human three, and to concentrate upon the utterly alien head.

  33. With characteristic Niobian delicacy, the hunters had left, preferring to endure the night rain than be present when the alien died.

  34. There was far too much revealed in that sudden flash that was entirely alien to his normal patterns of thought.

  35. He was a stranger here, an alien to these people, like herself.

  36. But I have lived since a child in America, and am alien to the traditions and customs of the old country, and even of the seat to which my fathers belong.

  37. Then the certainty that Miss Grace would far more easily let an alien like Isobel know, by reason of her own embarrassment, than a friend like Elma through frank and easy confidence, began to convince her.

  38. So that if, through much that went on now, he could only be a spectator, at least he was not allowed to feel himself an alien or forgotten.

  39. She rebels; she tries to see the cold alien nature which has laid this paralyzing spell upon her as it is, to reason herself back to peace--to indifference.

  40. My father would have shrunk from him with horror--An alien from the household of faith!

  41. The ship of the mind was once more laboring in alien and dreary seas.

  42. He won't need a visa, or the alien either.

  43. Alan felt abashed at having scolded the little alien that way, but he did not know how to make proper amends; besides, he was annoyed at Rat's preachiness.

  44. If the pictures of this event we often see are to describe the future of Christianity, we shall have to be as daring as though God did not fight the battle, and as trustful as though we had never driven the alien army back.

  45. Is it not true that the armies of the alien are robbing our families and churches, plundering us of the results of years of toil?

  46. But how, if the alien nature contradicts his own, fights with it, perplexes, and confounds it?


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alien" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adversary; adverse; alien; antagonistic; anti; antipathetic; antithetical; apart; apartheid; assign; barbarian; barbaric; barbarous; barter; bequeath; case; cede; character; clashing; competitive; con; confer; conflicting; consign; contradictory; contrary; convey; counter; crackpot; crank; cross; deed; deliver; detached; disconnected; discrete; disjunct; disunite; division; eccentric; emigrant; enemy; exchange; exclusiveness; exile; exotic; exterior; external; extramundane; extramural; extraneous; extraterrestrial; extrinsic; fanatic; fantastic; foreign; foreigner; fractious; give; gringo; hand; hermit; hobo; hostile; immigrant; incommensurable; incomparable; independent; inimical; insular; insularity; insulation; intrusive; irrelevant; isolated; isolation; maverick; natural; negative; negotiate; newcomer; nut; obstinate; oddity; opponent; opposed; opposing; opposite; oppositional; original; other; outcast; outlander; outlandish; outlaw; outside; outsider; overseas; pariah; pass; perverse; quarantine; recalcitrant; refractory; refugee; remote; removed; repugnant; rival; seclusion; segregate; segregation; sell; separate; separated; separation; settle; solitary; space; strange; stranger; surrender; tightness; trade; tramp; transcendental; transfer; transmit; type; ulterior; unaffiliated; unallied; unassociated; unconnected; unfavorable; unfriendly; unpropitious; unrelated; wanderer; wean; zealot