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Example sentences for "the earth"

  • The atmosphere of the earth, we now know, contains far more oxygen or far less argon (whichever way one likes to put it) than does Mars.

  • I began to comfort her and myself by repeating all that Ogilvy had told me of the impossibility of the Martians establishing themselves on the earth.

  • Probably this is due to the relative strength of the earth's gravitational energy.

  • But I was not an eminent traveller--and my way in this world had not led me into playing ducks and drakes with my own life, among thieves and murderers in the outlandish places of the earth.

  • Or you may marry the man, dearest, who is now at your feet, and who prizes your respect and admiration above the love of any other woman on the face of the earth.

  • My charitable business is an unendurable nuisance to me; and when I see a Ladies' Committee now, I wish myself at the uttermost ends of the earth!

  • It is gravitation which causes unsupported bodies to fall to the ground, which gives them weight, and which fastens us to the earth on which we live.

  • The insane oddity of a monument set up in a village to preserve a name that would outlast the hills and the rocks without any such help, would advertise Elmira to the ends of the earth--and draw custom.

  • Then they fell silent, and drifted away upon their dream wings to the far regions of the earth to invite all the crowned heads and their families and provide gratis transportation to them.

  • Nephi 4:7 7 Nevertheless I went forth, and as I came near unto the house of Laban I beheld a man, and he had fallen to the earth before me, for he was drunken with wine.

  • On such a Sabbath morn, were we pure enough to be its medium, we should be conscious of the earth's natural worship ascending through our frames, on whatever spot of ground we stood.

  • Indeed, she had not energy to fling it down, but had ceased to uphold it, and suffered it to press her to the earth.

  • There is a huge lumbering Saint Christopher yonder, sufficient to bear a whole company to the earth.

  • The javelin inflicted a wound upon the animal's shoulder, and narrowly missed pinning him to the earth; and Fangs fled howling from the presence of the enraged thane.

  • The Prince turned as pale as death, looked first on the earth, and then up to heaven, like a man who has received news that sentence of execution has been passed upon him.

  • One of them gave a deep rumbling groan and dropped his huge squat head on to the earth.

  • It belongs to a very large, a very strong, and, by all analogy, a very fierce animal which exists upon the face of the earth, but has not yet come under the notice of science.

  • Among them are to be found all the most terrible types of animal life that have ever cursed the earth or blessed a museum.

  • Dully and far off I heard the crack of a rifle and was feebly aware of the shock as I was dropped to the earth, where I lay without sense or motion.

  • It is this frame which concentrates and emphasizes the glory of the Jungfrau and makes it the most engaging and beguiling and fascinating spectacle that exists on the earth.

  • The oldest family of unchallenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and traces its line back seventeen hundred years, but no member of it has been present in the earth when an empress was murdered, until now.

  • Was it permitted to believe that there was nowhere upon the earth, or above the earth, a heaven for hogs, where they were requited for all this suffering?

  • By the said postern Ralph saw certain men standing; and on the earth near by, whereas he was keen-eyed, he saw more than one man lying moveless.

  • Philip was puzzled and shocked by that eager cleaving to the earth.

  • He was the most inconsiderate creature in that swarming mass of mankind which for a brief space occupied the surface of the earth; and he was almighty because he had wrenched from chaos the secret of its nothingness.

  • Philip, as he stood there, his heart beating with sheer joy, thought how the tempter had stood with Jesus on a high mountain and shown him the kingdoms of the earth.

  • When he got round, there lay a human form in a little dark heap on the earth.

  • She sent out the sort of wholehearted peal of laughter which God had vouchsafed in its perfection to none but the happy angels in heaven and the bruised and broken black slave on the earth, and said: "Dad fetch dat duel, I be'n in it myself.

  • It is chief of this world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth.

  • Now, Eglantine, what have you to tell us of your rosy namesakes on the earth?

  • The earth is broad, and we can find them in any land, then why should you care what happens to their kindred if your own are safe?

  • But he scornfully threw it aside, and bade his Spirits take her to a colder cell, deep in the earth; and there with harsh words they left her.

  • If you should see me, muck covered, grubbing in the earth or on a raft washing roots in the lake, you would not consider me like a woman.

  • He looked inquiringly at the dog, glanced around, and then at the earth.

  • I'm so anxious to put my feet on the earth.

  • He is always nosing for them, because he understands that I work in the earth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the earth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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