How to Use earthbound in a Sentence

earthbound

adjective

• McConnell is a 6-foot-1 point guard who plays a more earthbound brand of the game.
  — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
• The lemon was a high note singing clearly and steadily over the earthbound meatiness of the lamb.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 May 2022
• But the wry singer had more earthbound matters on his mind.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2019
• New Zealand has been a haven for earthbound birds for eons.
  — Jack Tamisiea, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• And the moods: the earthbound world on the left seems solemn, even chilly, whereas on the right heaven is light-filled and joyous.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2020
• In her very good new book, Smith’s concerns are more earthbound.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• At the same time, Hörst has been deeply involved in more earthbound challenges.
  — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2019
• And then there’s the film’s look, which, apart from the before-life cosmic vistas, is as earthbound as New York City gets.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021
• Now I am left here, an earthbound piddler, to piddle alone.
  — Southern Living, 1 May 2017
• There was no shortage of earthbound upheaval from the storm known as Eunice.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• But time and distance tame both, and at some range a slug becomes more or less harmless, a wad of earthbound lead.
  — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2020
• Everyone, from the most high-flying to the earthbound among us, leaves a mark, an echo, an imprint on those around them and those to come.
  — David Colton, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2017
• The sudden drop in speed causing a Doppler effect shift that earthbound observers could detect, the first sign that the chutes worked.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
• The process formed a cloud of stardust that could have blocked Betelgeuse’s light from eager earthbound viewers.
  — Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• Why are airline stocks taking off while their bonds seem earthbound?
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• The Trial of the Chicago 7 was not based on a play, but the legal drama was still one of the more visually earthbound of this year’s contenders.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2021
• Perhaps that’s why the show feels so earthbound despite its many references to flight.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
• There will even be a floating hot tub in the float sphere, though an orbital spa won't look quite like its earthbound counterparts.
  — Will Dietrich-Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 July 2013
• The researchers compared the changes to Scott’s identical twin Mark, who stayed earthbound during this time.
  — Shi En Kim, Science, 2 Dec. 2020
• No longer earthbound, his thoughts turned to how humans are destroying the planet.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
• The rest of us, however, are likely to remain earthbound.
  — Sarah Leonard, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2021
• For earthbound Mars watchers, our neighboring world will appear to ride high in the southern sky this week.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 20 June 2016
• To watch Rosario, the 21-year-old shortstop, run and glide about the infield is to wonder who let this athlete into a room filled with earthbound players.
  — Michael Powell, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• But this is all merely a prelude to a more earthbound tale of guilt and innocence, crime and punishment.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
• But beneath the roller-coaster madness here is an earthbound terror that art is meant to reveal.
  — Tom Keogh, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
• To earthbound astronomers looking back today, the stars are obscured in a fog of hydrogen.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
• Because earthbound observers can directly view only the near side of the moon, Queqiao-2 will have to bounce signals between Chang’e-6 and Earth.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2023
• After feeling my stomach plunge when hearing the unholy sound of a black hole for the first time, an earthbound brass band march can’t help but sound like it’s stopping short of the goal.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• Director DuVernay’s handling of the earthbound scenes of Meg’s life feels just right.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Here, Earth is hot compared to space, and the temperature difference means that the earthbound photovoltaic cell emits net radiation to space.
  — Sid Assawaworrarit, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024