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"Terrestrial" in a Sentence (22 examples)
The Solar System has four terrestrial or telluric planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
Pigeons can use the terrestrial magnetic field to find their way home.
The earth, because of its shape, is called the terrestrial globe.
Spain shares borders with France, Portugal, the principality of Andorra, and the British colony of Gibraltar. In its African territories, it shares terrestrial and maritime borders with Morocco.
Giraffes are terrestrial animals.
The Kuiper Belt is the “third zone” of the solar system beyond the inner terrestrial planets and the outer gas giant planets.
Mercury is a terrestrial planet.
Elephants are the largest living terrestrial animals.
Giraffes are the tallest terrestrial animals on earth.
My uncle is a geophysicist; he studies terrestrial structure, such as physical interactions applied to it.
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It will be manifest that natural scenery must present many beautiful varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials, who know of no colours in scenery except those inherent in the objects themselves which form the landscape.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
quoted in 2022, C. F. G. Clark, The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country […] yet this stone [Cannock] is so Sulphurious and Terrestrial, not fit to make Iron; […]
Microorganisms are the Cinderellas of terrestrial ecology — the majority of the Earth's biomass, yet barely catalogued.
a terrestrial plant
Typically, tarantulas are either terrestrial or arboreal, but the Chilobrachys natanicharum can live in both enivronments^([sic]), the researchers said, demonstrating its adaptability.
A genius bright and base, / Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims.
We are now living and obeying celestial laws that will make us candidates for celestial glory; or we are living terrestrial laws that will make us candidates for terrestrial glory; or telestial.
Theirs is an everlasting terrestrial inheritance because they rejected the truth when it was offered to them in mortality.
It will be manifest that natural scenery must present many beautiful varieties of effect altogether unfamiliar to us terrestrials, who know of no colours in scenery except those inherent in the objects themselves which form the landscape.
The other was not a Terrestrial, but a visiting Martian.
There'd been Earthling girls; and not a few Khazaki women had been intrigued by the big Terrestrial.
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