Earth

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"Earth" in a Sentence (27 examples)

The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

What on earth did you take me for?

What on earth are you talking about?

If it were not for air, we could not live on the earth.

We think nuclear weapons will destroy our earth.

Mars is all the more interesting for its close resemblance to our Earth.

The surface of the earth rose due to the volcanic activity.

What on earth do you want six copies of the same book for?

Were the earth to stop revolving, what do you suppose would happen?

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The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.

We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

This is good earth for growing potatoes.

She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.

Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.

Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

And the whole earth was of one language, and of one ſpeach.

New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.

The term Earths was formerly, and is still, but in a modified sense, applied to several substances which compose all the various rocks, stones, gems, mountains, and soils covering the face of the globe. They are tasteless, inodorous, dry, uninflamable, sparingly soluble, difficult of fusion, and of moderate specific gravity.

That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.

The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn.

[…]the Fox is earth’d,[…]

This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set.

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It's my theory that we'll keep being reborn on as many Earths as it takes until every person gets it exactly right from the moment they are born until the moment they die.

The arrival of the new prefixes means the Earth can now be said to weigh six ronnagrams, and Jupiter about two quettagrams.

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