How to Use earthbound in a Sentence

earthbound

adjective
  • In her very good new book, Smith’s concerns are more earthbound.
    — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Why are airline stocks taking off while their bonds seem earthbound?
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • And its most ardent message is quite earthbound.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • The lemon was a high note singing clearly and steadily over the earthbound meatiness of the lamb.
    — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 May 2022
  • At the same time, Hörst has been deeply involved in more earthbound challenges.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Apr. 2019
  • McConnell is a 6-foot-1 point guard who plays a more earthbound brand of the game.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2021
  • But time and distance tame both, and at some range a slug becomes more or less harmless, a wad of earthbound lead.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2020
  • There was no shortage of earthbound upheaval from the storm known as Eunice.
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Perhaps that’s why the show feels so earthbound despite its many references to flight.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Humankind goes to the moon and back; earthbound heroes find love and redemption.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
  • No longer earthbound, his thoughts turned to how humans are destroying the planet.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 15 Oct. 2022
  • But beneath the roller-coaster madness here is an earthbound terror that art is meant to reveal.
    — Tom Keogh, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
  • There will even be a floating hot tub in the float sphere, though an orbital spa won't look quite like its earthbound counterparts.
    — Will Dietrich-Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 23 July 2013
  • The process formed a cloud of stardust that could have blocked Betelgeuse’s light from eager earthbound viewers.
    — Science, 3 Dec. 2020
  • But this is all merely a prelude to a more earthbound tale of guilt and innocence, crime and punishment.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Everyone, from the most high-flying to the earthbound among us, leaves a mark, an echo, an imprint on those around them and those to come.
    — David Colton, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Natural wine fit in with the urban appetite for movements that evoked a slower, more earthbound past.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
  • To earthbound astronomers looking back today, the stars are obscured in a fog of hydrogen.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • For earthbound Mars watchers, our neighboring world will appear to ride high in the southern sky this week.
    — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 20 June 2016
  • Carrie Fisher is trading the Force for more earthbound type of magic.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 16 June 2023
  • The sudden drop in speed causing a Doppler effect shift that earthbound observers could detect, the first sign that the chutes worked.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2018
  • At the same time, Monáe has embarked on a surprisingly earthbound acting career.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The researchers compared the changes to Scott’s identical twin Mark, who stayed earthbound during this time.
    — Shi En Kim, Science, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Others might say that a more earthbound approach to romance is better—that true love over the long haul is a combination of good luck, free will, and hard work.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Big dreams have a tendency to shape-shift when they are transformed into earthbound finite reality.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • And then there’s the film’s look, which, apart from the before-life cosmic vistas, is as earthbound as New York City gets.
    — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021
  • While meme stocks have been largely earthbound of late, two of the biggest resumed their lunar journey Wednesday morning.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The mission will provide earthbound researchers with the first fresh batch of lunar material in 44 years.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Superhero movies, once a Teflon genre, have become worryingly earthbound at the box office.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 13 May 2026
  • Director DuVernay’s handling of the earthbound scenes of Meg’s life feels just right.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018

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