How to Use terra firma in a Sentence

terra firma

noun

• Pull your head out of the clouds and plant your feet back on terra firma.
  — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022
• But once on terra firma, Kerr sure can stick a landing.
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2018
• How does a year in orbit impact one twin while the other stayed on terra firma as the control?
  — CNN, 2 Feb. 2020
• The final balloon of the Loon project would be on terra firma this coming Monday.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 14 May 2021
• The Falcon 9's cycle—launch, then return of the first stage to terra firma or to a drone ship in the ocean—is becoming routine.
  — Bobak Ferdowsi, Popular Mechanics, 31 July 2017
• Back on terra firma with Dulawen, there's time for a stroll around the Jubail boardwalks as the sun sinks into an orange sky.
  — Barry Neild, CNN, 4 Aug. 2022
• Ditton will be on a prescription of warm showers, fresh food and lots of sleep for at least her first week back once on terra firma.
  — Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• But then there are those who think a day without putting a little sunlight between the tires and terra firma is a day not worth living.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 8 Feb. 2018
• Homer rarely paints seascapes without some terra firma.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 7 Dec. 2019
• But even the hijacking story isn’t wholly immune to the show’s terra firma frailty.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• But neither situation can be viewed outside of where the men stood on the shifting plates of the cable news terra firma.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• One species kept long legs — ideal for sprinting — and small, sticky toe pads more often planted on terra firma.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
• Bonadurer explained that sunlight bouncing off the Earth reflects off the moon, which allows folks on terra firma to see the entire moon.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2018
• Is a solid foothold on Torrey’s picturesque terra firma a tonic for the queasiness?
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2023
• As a Euro in the U.S., drinking espresso is the one moment in the day that keeps my feet firmly rooted on European terra firma.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 31 Dec. 2022
• In some places, what appears to be terra firma is actually just a thin crust—and what lies beneath can be perilous.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2020
• Adventuresome types can swing through the trees on over two miles of zip line; back down on terra firma, there are the resort's twin golf courses to consider.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2018
• Visual stimulation runs rampant: A huge rear wing and various vents and slats all over the body do their best to keep this Vette on terra firma.
  — Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2017
• How much easier to retreat to terra firma, safe and unchanged.
  — Claudia Hinz, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Nov. 2022
• The Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky once tried to do it as a 14-hour production and, for some odd reason, couldn’t get the project off terra firma.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2021
• Though the building served as a machine for sloshing commuters from terra firma to the harbor and back again many times an hour, the firm of Walker and Morris gave it efficiency and grace.
  — Curbed, 20 Jan. 2022
• But this muddy little hunk of terra firma in the South Pacific presents enough unsolved mysteries to keep Slayback busy for a while.
  — Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2019
• Back on terra firma, the France pavilion will welcome the new restaurant, La Crêperie de Paris, featuring both sweet and savory versions of the yummy pancakes.
  — Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2020
• Before this study, space anemia was thought to be a short-term adaptation of the human body, but the work reveals the impacts last at least a year after returning to terra firma.
  — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Jan. 2022
• And on terra firma, year-round, travelers have easy access to tennis, golf, hiking, and cycling.
  — Caitlin Raux Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2022
• Like terra firma itself, Barbie Land was born from a volcanic eruption.
  — Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 21 July 2023
• Yupik tradition, for example, holds that beluga whales once lived on land and long to return to terra firma.
  — Krista Langlois, Smithsonian, 6 Apr. 2018
• The aurora australis keep a lower profile simply due to a dearth of viewing platforms on terra firma.
  — Jonathan Irish, National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2019
• So, today’s leap was quite a bit higher than Starhopper’s three previous forays off of terra firma.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 28 Aug. 2019
• The manner in which the Sherlock/Fleabag actor moves through the various time trips and memory-lane strolls, some of which are more painful and raw than others, manages to keep Haigh’s occasional flights of paranormal fancy solidly on terra firma.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Jul 2024