How to Use earthly in a Sentence

earthly

adjective
  • Even amidst the most breathtaking earthly scenery of the Grand Canyon, the night sky stole the show.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2022
  • That is once one let go of a sense of earthly uniqueness.
    Caleb A. Scharf, Scientific American, 21 Feb. 2021
  • At the end of the day, Doja Cat, like us, retreats back to this earthly realm, though.
    Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Sep. 2021
  • In 1981, in the first hours of earthly bonding, the new mom wanted a tie to her childhood.
    Washington Post, 10 May 2022
  • Still, LaCroix does seem to defy the laws of earthly logic.
    Rachel Sugar, Vox, 29 July 2019
  • Like all earthly places, this one was shaped by both wild and human forces.
    The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2023
  • This is when earthly bears return to their dens, and when the sap of trees returns to the warm womb of the underworld.
    Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
  • What earthly troubles can hurt you when God is on your side?
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 10 Nov. 2022
  • For Lara, the farm is not an earthly place; its red-and-white fields ripple with magic.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • But like its earthly namesake, it will be shed as the galaxy evolves.
    National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • To lose Toni Morrison is to lose a great earthly guide.
    Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The peacemakers may well be blessed in the hereafter, but in the earthly realm they are treated as badly as the poor and the meek.
    Garry Kasparov, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • And the thought was that the abundances would be similar to earthly abundances.
    Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Bury her earthly remains in the cove’s Brown Hill Cemetery.
    Amy McRary, The Seattle Times, 23 Dec. 2017
  • For this act alone, Peterson should spend the rest of his earthly life in custody.
    Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And those names are not counted among the church’s 16.5 million members on its earthly rolls.
    David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2021
  • In what town and country did Shakespeare enter the earthly stage?
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Growing up, Wiman says, he was taught that earthly love could distract you from God.
    Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The first disaster was an earthquake, in a time of earthly paradise, followed by a three-day eclipse of the sun.
    Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Nov. 2021
  • So, how does the certainty of your earthly demise affect you?
    Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
  • The ominous term sounds like some earthly black hole trying to kill us with Arctic air.
    Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Space could be a place not only to pursue our dreams, but to solve our earthly problems.
    Eren Ozmen For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
  • And in this oversold earthly Eden, the fruit of pleasure and delight was the orange, not the humdrum apple.
    Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The boy had seemed destined for a life of affluence and earthly pursuits.
    David Pierson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2023
  • If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud.
    San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2018
  • This week, though, is for a freedom that feels like solidity, the kind that lives in your earthly body.
    Claire Comstock-Gay, The Cut, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The exotic even coexists with the earthly in her name: Turquoise Jones.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The bugler sounds taps as each cross its witness bears to the journey of a soldier released from earthly cares.
    William H. McRaven, The Atlantic, 31 May 2021
  • Each delicious grotesque cries out to the divine and shivers in earthly pleasure.
    Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • It is believed to allow Ganesha to return to his celestial home after spending time in the earthly realm during Ganesh Chaturthi, a symbol of the impermanence of life.
    Lex Harvey, CNN, 18 Sep. 2024

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