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:

  • Perhaps this is related to our down-to-earth, often rather unsophisticated use of language, especially at the folk level.

  • Among other things, I learned that what a middle-aged college professor thinks of as down-to-earth examples of economics in action might not always sound quite so down to earth to the ordinary college freshman, and that I had to have more examples the clientele could relate to--which means, in particular, sports . One focus group member suggested that the market for "scalped" sports tickets was a good example of supply and demand in action.

  • (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.)

  • ) The Enquirer offers this rather down-to-earth explanation of Lucci's win, straight from an Emmy judge: She snagged the trophy because she finally stopped submitting tapes with "overly dramatic" performances and went with something subtler instead.

  • What surprised everyone was that he turned out to be a most charismatic campaigner, with a much more down-to-earth touch than Harriman ever exhibited.


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