Words similar to terra

Example sentences for: terra

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

The land is divided by temperature: the northern part, Terra Fria (“Cold Land”), experiences very harsh winters, while Terra Quente (“Hot Land”) is more temperate, containing large vineyards in the Upper Douro Valley.
Tungsten was first discovered in the United States in 1819, along with tellurium (with the symbol Te, it comes from Latin tellus , another word for terra , both meaning earth; compare the consonant shift between Latin puer , boy, and puella, girl) in Huntington, Connecticut, in a bismuth mine.
History and natural beauty mingle easily at Huaqing Hot Springs (Huaqingchi), a popular side trip for tourists on the way to or from the Qin terra cotta warriors excavations.
When they wanted to moor the ship, they dropped a heavy object attached to a line, and they termed this anchoring , because the object was called an anchor (rather ankor, anker , or ancre ), When it was time to return to terra firma, they chose a short, appropriate noun to describe that action, to land .
You can visit a site of the Qin Dynasty today at Xi’an, where the First Emperor’s terra cotta army was unearthed in 1974 (see page 185).