Sentence examples for earthly from inspiring English sources

The word 'earthly' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is related to the world or things on the Earth, such as material possessions or worldly pleasures. For example, "She was not interested in earthly fame or riches; all she wanted was contentment."

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earthly

noun

A slightest chance (of success etc.) or idea (about something).

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He dropped out of school and isolated himself, but, via the internet, developed new attachments, to a world far away, to an ideal of earthly perfection, the caliphate run by Isis.

These fragments of rock that have tumbled from the sky often seem like the only solid element in the earthly narratives they leave like twisting trails of light in their wake.

For Petersen, meteorites are both solid scientific evidence and wondrous objects that have fallen from the heavens, carrying all sorts of resonances – from the scientific to the superstitious, the earthly to the supernatural.

Many have been coming every Tuesday for the past 40 weeks or longer, believing that their requests for such earthly desires as a job or a cure for a sick child have been realised.

The reader might take issue with the editors' claim that the railway is "as  close as earthly things get to perfection" – as indeed do many of the poets and songwriters on board – but there are plenty of nostalgic pleasures to be had here.

In the rejection of "a hope", all utopias – earthly and heavenly – seem to be cancelled.

I don't believe in earthly paradises or that there are EU shackles from which we have to break free.

Tony Curtis was buried on Monday with many of his earthly possessions, according to the Las Vegas Sun.

The lords of cyberspace have done everything possible to reduce their earthly costs.

Because these days, the earthly authorities and the Mormons have virtually switched sides over the issue of multiple marriage.

To which side of the line should words, images or phenomena be assigned that belong to earthly reality but also pertain to God?

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