How do you use Martians in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Martians meaning
plural of Martian
Using Martians
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of Martian
- In the example corpus, martians often appears in combinations such as: the martians, martians and, martians are.
Context around Martians
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Martians
- In this selection, "martians" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, green, men, humanoid, reed and ancestors stand out and add context to how "martians" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about uh martians or flying and and humanoid martians are shipmates. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "martians" sits close to words such as adamson, adapts and agitating, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with martians
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Songs about, uh, Martians or flying saucers. (7 words)
Even the Martians were outraged by such moral lapses in Edwardian times. (12 words)
In my world, though, he made his mark by introducing me to the Hungarian Martians. (15 words)
Re-released last month—in time for your Halloween DJ sets—this 1964 rarity is the musical child of Milton DeLugg, a composer and bandleader best known for his work on and the tunes he wrote for cult classic film Santa Claus Conquers The Martians. (45 words)
Brothers Jim Thomas and John Thomas teamed with Graham Yost to write Mission to Mars (2000), a film that depicts Martians as tall, feminine, peaceful humanoids who left Mars to escape the havoc caused by a massive meteorite impact. (39 words)
Martians, Go Home (1955) is both a broad farce and a satire on human frailties as seen through the eyes of a billion jeering, invulnerable Martians who arrive not to conquer the world but to drive it crazy. (38 words)
So how can I make policy affecting folks who are from Mars, if I don’t know any Martians? (19 words)
Example sentences (20)
In four stories by Eric Frank Russell published in the early 1940s and collected in the classic Men, Martians and Machines (1955), a crew of humans and humanoid Martians are shipmates and compatriots on an interstellar voyage.
Martians, Go Home (1955) is both a broad farce and a satire on human frailties as seen through the eyes of a billion jeering, invulnerable Martians who arrive not to conquer the world but to drive it crazy.
Most of the Green Martians were wiped out by a plague, although the more ruthless White Martians still exist.
In my world, though, he made his mark by introducing me to the Hungarian Martians.
Others shared videos of the event with the words “The Martians have arrived”, while there was a tongue-in-cheek call for Maussan to be named “president of intergalactic relations”.
So how can I make policy affecting folks who are from Mars, if I don’t know any Martians?
Linebacker Sam Reed (Goodrich Martians): Reed is a defensive leader and will play a vital role in stopping the Trojans’ running game.
Government officials have exhausted the lame excuses that terrorism is a global problem or that angry Martians are not helping to supply arms and equipment to our troops.
Even the Martians were outraged by such moral lapses in Edwardian times.
Re-released last month—in time for your Halloween DJ sets—this 1964 rarity is the musical child of Milton DeLugg, a composer and bandleader best known for his work on and the tunes he wrote for cult classic film Santa Claus Conquers The Martians.
I consider myself a martian, I don’t think the other martians will fall for it.
Putting wannabe Martians into hibernation comes with other benefits besides cramming more people into each flight to the Red Planet.
Songs about, uh, Martians or flying saucers.
Although the noun Martian can describe any organism from Mars, these and later works typically imagine Martians as a humanoid monoculture.
Although the telescope's image was fuzzy, Schiaparelli thought he saw long, straight lines on the Martian surface; some astronomers came to believe that these lines were structures built by Martians.
A scene taking place on Mars features the Hithers from Gullivar of Mars, the Green Martians from Barsoom, and the Séroni from Out of the Silent Planet, with references to Kane of Old Mars.
At the end of the book, it is disclosed that the Martians' ancestors had possessed the technology to build spaceships and invade Earth, but renounced that possibility and stoically resigned themselves to dying out.
A young couple on a journey through the solar system are captured by hostile Martians.
Balderston was one of the few playwrights of the 20th century to adopt Mars or Martians as a subject for the stage.
Brothers Jim Thomas and John Thomas teamed with Graham Yost to write Mission to Mars (2000), a film that depicts Martians as tall, feminine, peaceful humanoids who left Mars to escape the havoc caused by a massive meteorite impact.
Common combinations with martians
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the martians 29×
- martians and 8×
- martians are 8×
- martians as 7×
- of martians 4×
- martians were 3×
- martians from 3×
- martians in 3×
- humanoid martians 2×
- martians who 2×