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
In Ridley Scott’s 1979 film “Alien,” the crew of the Nostromo rouses from slumber to answer a distress call that spells their doom.
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 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 vanished out of the doorway with a grunt of discontent at this jeering answer.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad
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