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
• Each of the contemporary pieces, anonymously strung like shaky rope bridges between the comparative terra firma of the Bach movements, struggled to cloak the rocky, inhospitable terroir of their respective origins.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024