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
• And in the fall, crack open a butternut squash for a sweet and earthly fritter, best served up with a spicy aioli.
  — Nora Martinez Debenedetto, OregonLive.com, 13 June 2017
• 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
• In one kingdom James was a king, ruling in earthly pomp.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 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
• On the flip side of things (quite literally), the Netherworld occupied by the recently, and not-so-recently, deceased needed to come off as eerie and a place where earthly rules of sound no longer apply.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
• Otherworldly ambitions, though, can come with earthly costs.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024