How to Use earth in a Sentence

earth

noun
Definition of earthnext
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  • We could feel the earth shake.
  • The moisture will eventually fall to earth in the form of rain or snow.
  • There was a grassy smell, the long-ago seeping out of the earth.
    — Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • And why on earth are some of my blooms chewed up and spotty?
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
  • Some wondered how on earth the car flipped all the way on its side.
    — Brooke Baitinger, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • This town and this sport is one of the most romantic things on earth.
    — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • No man on earth has ever been asked to choose between the two).
    — Hannah Van Sickle, Parents, 22 Sep. 2023
  • And there’s the fact that golf courses are some of the most beautiful places on earth.
    — Katie Sweeney, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
  • In an odd way, Dostoevsky has a feeling for the homeless of the earth.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Kes loves science and likes to inform others about the size of the universe, the age of the earth and how salmon feed trees.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Orcas are one of the most successful species on earth, reigning at the top of the food chain.
    — Diane Farr, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Thomas Rhett brought all four of his daughters to the happiest place on earth!
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Whip up your own homemade cleaners that are easy on your wallet and the earth.
    — Caitlin Sole, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Or that the current state of affairs here on this earth is shaped and shifted by the placement of the cosmos?
    — Samantha Leal, refinery29.com, 3 May 2023
  • The 2023 season, however, brought the Trojans back to earth.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Strange blooms Why on earth are there leaf-like structures emerging from the center of my rose bloom?
    — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2023
  • In the morning of the earth’s creation, 385 million years ago, before Príncipe's fist of rock punched up from the ocean floor, the fish walked out of the sea on its fins.
    — Catherine Fairweather, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2024
  • How on earth could a pair of plastic heels feel comfortable?
    — Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Hook your phone up to the car speakers to get the full effect of booming bass tones from dinosaur feet stomping the earth.
    — James Patrick, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Light breezes from the west should calm for most of the night, allowing an easy escape for warmth from earth’s surface.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Contrasted with the tent’s smooth plastic, the plants looked bizarre—there were plants all around them in the jungle; what on earth was the point of putting them in pots?
    — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Some days, Magno would stop and marvel at the size of their barge, weighed with thousands of tons of ivory-colored earth.
    — Terrence McCoy, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • And almost everybody on earth decides, no, the cost is too high.
    — Rachel Rabbit White, ELLE, 5 May 2023
  • Among some Sudanese, there is a belief that the soul continues to walk the earth for 40 days after death.
    — Ted Genoways, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • If critics cease to be, would life on earth be any different?
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The most pressing question on our lips, however, is who on earth will play Weiss?
    — Radhika Seth, Glamour, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Successive 3-foot undulations moved through the earth’s crust at nine times the speed of sound.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • To decolonize means to return and respect the earth and see yourself as part of it.
    — Amanda Alcantara, refinery29.com, 7 June 2023
  • Barton Springs is an underground spring that bubbles out of the earth, clean and fresh, at 68 to 70 degrees year-round.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Soil temperatures need to be between 50-60 degrees, and the earth can’t be too wet or too dry.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Mar. 2024

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