How to Use earthly in a Sentence

earthly

adjective
  • Like all earthly places, this one was shaped by both wild and human forces.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The moon is not the only thing that can shorten earthly days.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2025
  • The rest of us are strolling into fall with an eye to earthly delights.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But like its earthly namesake, it will be shed as the galaxy evolves.
    — National Geographic, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In fact, eternal life didn’t tempt her any more than earthly pleasures did.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • The demons’ earthly vessels, too, turn out to be thin sketches.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Much like those on this earthly plane, the way to a spirit’s heart is through his or her stomach.
    — Vanessa Anderson, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
  • How has Max died and why is his spirit anchored on the earthly plane?
    — Marie-Helene Bertino, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Let his final earthly words be a prod to the consciences of our leaders and all mankind.
    — Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Though his earthly life has ended, his witness cannot be silenced.
    — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, IndyStar, 10 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • So, how does the certainty of your earthly demise affect you?
    — Philip Chard, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 May 2018
  • There is no earthly reason why the animators had to go so hard on this show.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
  • So, don’t fret if your grandchildren don’t want your earthly treasures.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 ominous term sounds like some earthly black hole trying to kill us with Arctic air.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2020
  • For this act alone, Peterson should spend the rest of his earthly life in custody.
    — Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2023
  • And the thought was that the abundances would be similar to earthly abundances.
    — Lucy Evans, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • In what town and country did Shakespeare enter the earthly stage?
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Growing up, Wiman says, he was taught that earthly love could distract you from God.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
  • In his vows to the church, Dom had renounced the earthly life and, with it, all possessions.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
  • The new season will get around to that question, though the alien and earthly plot lines are kept on separate tracks.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • 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
  • At the end of the day, Doja Cat, like us, retreats back to this earthly realm, though.
    — Devon Abelman, Allure, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Even amidst the most breathtaking earthly scenery of the Grand Canyon, the night sky stole the show.
    — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Our children and grandchildren might not want our earthly treasures.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025

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