Example sentences for: tierra

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

  • la seguiría por tierra y por mar

  • This action altered the perception that San Juan was a citadel city — already an anachronism at the time — and plans were drawn up to develop the area immediately east of the city, an area that became known as Puerta de Tierra or “gateway to the land.”

  • si por tierra en un tren militar.

  • The sites chosen for rural camposantos were often on tierra muerta, barren land that was too poor to cultivate.

  • According to the Diccionario de Mejicanismos (Dictionary of Mexicanisms), barbacoa is “carne asada en un hoyo que se abre en tierra, y se calienta como los hornos” (grilled meat cooked in a hole in the ground heated like an oven).


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