How to Use terrestrial in a Sentence

terrestrial

adjective

• The toad has terrestrial habits, spending most of its time on shore.
• These terrestrial planets, like Earth or Venus, are close enough to the star to be warmed by it.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Aug. 2021
• In a sign of the times and the end of terrestrial talk radio, the announcement was issued on Twitter.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Oct. 2022
• The boreal forest is the largest terrestrial biome in the world.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
• Long-lived, terrestrial and found in more than a dozen states, the ornate is one of two species of box turtles in Illinois.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2021
• Tracking these new aphids might just be the key to terrestrial success.
  — Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press, 1 June 2022
• These marine plants form the base of the marine ecosystem, just as terrestrial plants do on land.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
• The flats are known for these strange terrestrial patterns.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• But specialists in terrestrial flies are on the case and have come up with some great-looking bugs this year.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 1 Mar. 2021
• Spielberg is a terrestrial, through and through, nowhere more so than in his fantasies.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• It’s here, where the terrestrial and the celestial meet, that Coppari thrives.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 June 2021
• It’s not terrestrial radio, where anyone can call in off the street.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• The systems are of course built to resist rust, but so are terrestrial panels, which are exposed to rain.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• The language and the needs of the platform don't always overlap with the best practices at terrestrial radio.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 25 June 2021
• But sea beans are a type of halophyte, a salt-loving terrestrial plant that can’t grow in pure fresh water.
  — Caroline Hatchett, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
• The grounding line is where the terrestrial ice sheet reaches the sea and begins floating, becoming the ice shelf.
  — WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
• Even there, a million miles away from Earth, the telescope may still be weighed down by its terrestrial baggage.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2021
• The majestic species is the largest terrestrial bird in North America with a wingspan of about 9 feet.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 5 Jan. 2023
• The jaws and finlike legs of these first terrestrial vertebrates served as bony pathways from the outside world to the inner ear.
  — David George Haskell, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
• How eerie to think that more than half the planet’s terrestrial animals live up there, overlooked—underlooked?—by most of us.
  — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 17 June 2021
• Many bromeliads are terrestrial epiphytes that do great in the ground, or in pots sunk into garden beds.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2022
• Just 4% are terrestrial, or rocky planets like Earth or Mars.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• The switch from terrestrial to satellite service should be seamless for the user.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 26 Aug. 2022
• Woody growth allows these plants to keep growing, year after year, making woody plants the largest and tallest terrestrial plants.
  — Tim MacWelch, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2021
• In any terrestrial ecosystem, a fresh pile of poop is an entire universe.
  — Christie Taylor, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2024
• Schwing: The boreal forest, also known as Taiga, is the largest terrestrial biome on the planet.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 27 Dec. 2021
• No one knows when the first terrestrial globe was created.
  — Laurie Kellman, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2024
• New Zealand was once a land of flightless birds like the extinct moa—no terrestrial mammalian predators in sight.
  — Rina Diane Caballar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• By contrast, the African elephant – the world’s heaviest terrestrial animal – tips the scale at a comparatively meagre 6.6 tonnes.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• Unlike our terrestrial weather, scientists who forecast celestial events rely on observations of the sun from 93-million miles away to make their predictions.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024