Nostromo
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Nicholson says there was a team of people who policed placement of Semiotic Standard, the color-coded information symbols designed by Ron Cobb for the Nostromo spacecraft, on Maginot.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2025
“Alien” marks the first appearance of Ellen Ripley, a commissioned officer managing the crew of the commercial tug Nostromo on behalf of an entity only identified as The Company.
From Salon • Jul. 4, 2025
Instead, the dimly lit corridors of The Nostromo were just sets built at a studio near London.
From Fox News • Oct. 15, 2021
Mr. Kotto played the engineer Parker, traveling on the spaceship Nostromo with an otherwise all-White crew that included Sigourney Weaver and John Hurt, who becomes the host for a parasitic alien.
From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2021
Nostromo, with his Cargadores, was pressing them too hard then.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph
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