How to Use otherworldly in a Sentence

otherworldly

adjective
  • The British composer brought the otherworldly sound of the theremin back to the fore, calling to mind the sci-fi and genre films of the ‘50s.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
  • The light will take on an otherworldly atmosphere as the Moon moves in front of the Sun.
    Douglas Goodwin, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2024
  • In the South, huge craters in the desert give off the appearance of an otherworldly planet.
    Stephanie Walden, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In the winter, the snow dusts the iconic red rocks, which make for an otherworldly scene.
    Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The mood is at once down to earth, ragged with chats about music and cars, and heightened by hints of the otherworldly.
    The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
  • Dalvin Cook is an otherworldly talent who is good at a lot of things, and one of the best is making plays in the open on the screen.
    Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Southern Utah has some of the most otherworldly views and a Mars-like landscape.
    Ashley Dunne, Sunset Magazine, 14 June 2022
  • The Garbo movement opens with the sounds of the otherworldly ondes Martenot, a kind of French theremin with a keyboard.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2022
  • The beauty of deep-sea creatures Watch this short video to see some of the otherworldly creatures that emerge from the deep ocean at night.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Led by a resourceful staff sergeant, the group face the otherworldly challenge with grit and courage.
    Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 23 Sep. 2022
  • But the group said there is a high bar for claiming that the objects have an otherworldly origin.
    Stefan Becket, CBS News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the most otherworldly landscapes on Earth.
    Mike Masterson, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The scent manages to harmonize sweet, spice, smoke, and damp and whisks one off to an otherworldly realm.
    Travel, 4 Jan. 2021
  • In the winter, Mossy Cave is prone to freezing over, making for an otherworldly sight.
    Outside Online, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The television star gained major fame for the role of the otherworldly icon, though picked up many credits and accolades on the way.
    Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 23 Aug. 2023
  • To the north is Utah's otherworldly landscapes of Bryce Canyon and Zion national parks.
    Melissa Yeager, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Too bad the otherworldly Celtics were waiting both times.
    Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The art is in the otherworldly magic within the pictures—the majesty of a wolf’s face, the grace of swans on a lake, the bold colors of red-and-green macaws, the pose of a porcupine, the embrace of a tiger.
    Kayla Randall, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Save time for a boat tour of Lake Powell, and for photo ops of the otherworldly Antelope Canyon.
    Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 June 2020
  • The player pausing to tune provides a neat break in the otherwise dreamy and otherworldly evening.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 7 May 2022
  • In the film, the track is stripped down to just Bowie’s vocals, creating an otherworldly sense as Gama loses himself in the music on the dance floor.
    Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In the depths of the Pacific Ocean lives the otherworldly Japanese spider crab.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Travel 1,737 miles from Darwin in the north to Adelaide in the south (or vice versa), soaking in sights from the otherworldly Outback.
    Shraddha Chowdhury, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Dec. 2023
  • And so, Max and Liz's love story ends with a bit of hope and some otherworldly complications.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 6 Sep. 2022
  • And then the game became predicting the spot in both water and time in which these otherworldly creatures would reemerge.
    Emily Brisse, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Much like Jones, her style embraced the bizarre, the androgynous, the otherworldly.
    Treye Green, Allure, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Step up to the bar and order a Meowgarita, which comes in an otherworldly shade of blue and has a puff of cotton candy on top.
    Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 7 Nov. 2021
  • The man who had once amazed people with his otherworldly leaps, who took care of other people, couldn’t walk or care for himself.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • The album evokes the feeling of being alone in some otherworldly landscape—the high desert, say—at dusk, with a campfire going, and something good to read.
    Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • By the mid-1970s, though, May put his otherworldly studies on hold as Queen achieved its status as one of the most famous rock bands in history.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023

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