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
• The species with the divergent big toe probably could have climbed trees more efficiently than Au. afarensis, for example, and so might have focused on arboreal resources while Au. afarensis favored terrestrial ones.
  — Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 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: 18 Nov 2024