Example sentences for: earthly

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

  • If you're not busy Saturday, would you like to go with me to an auction in Rancho Santa Fe of the household items left over by the Heaven's Gate cult members when they left their "earthly vehicles" and went into the sky to join Halley's Comet?

  • In this work, we emphasized that during validation on Earth of any life detection method there is a requirement for control measurements that corroborate earthly results of assays that might be carried out remotely on other planets.

  • Instead, I'd think, if I could only meet a woman of substance and put down roots, I'd be less anxious about earthly impermanence and be really poised to cultivate my creativity ...

  • Homer's eyes aren't fixed on the Spielbergian heavens but on earthly means of getting off the ground: the mix of saltpeter and sugar that causes a rocket to soar without exploding, the shape that keeps it from spiraling into populated areas, the thickness of steel that prevents its nose cone from melting, the trigonometry that's employed to track its trajectory.

  • There are now improved ways to monitor microbial signatures and metabolic processes that are indicative of life in soil [ 35 36 37 ] . The fact that spores appear to survive for many decades and perhaps hundreds of millions of years in earthly systems further supports the possibility for survival of similar life forms on Mars.


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