Example sentences for: down-to-earth

How can you use “down-to-earth” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even in its first edition, his manual was more encyclopedic than others, packed with up-to-date medical and practical advice delivered in down-to-earth prose.

  • But the paper's recitation of failed events suggests a more down-to-earth explanation: $2,000 per couple to hear Neil Sedaka and Mary Wilson is stupid.

  • His Flemish contemporary Hugo van der Goes is more down-to-earth in the realism of his huge triptych Adoration of the Shepherds (1478), which influenced Florentine painters like Ghirlandaio.

  • For more down-to-earth nightlife, several restaurants offer regular fado evenings.

  • (Amy Smart must be the nicest, most down-to-earth Southern WASP goddess in history--if F. Scott Fitzgerald had met her, he'd have lived into his 90s.)


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