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:

  • Although cultural activity has been under state control since the revolution and Havana no longer sizzles with the sleazy Mafia-funded casinos and clubs of the 1950s, both high culture and more down-to-earth nightlife thrive in Cuba.

  • His down-to-earth analogies are more instructive and less alarmist, because they do not ignore the sensible constitutional, political, and market counterstrategies that are available.

  • 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.

  • 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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