earth

[ɜːrθ]

Definition:
1. The world; the planet that we live on.
2. Land; the hard surface of the world that is not the sea or the sky; the ground.

'earth' example sentence:

1. The sun is constantly evaporating the earth's moisture.
2. I must be the happiest person on earth!
3. I was shocked, brought down to earth by this revelation.
4. The earth is almost 25 000 miles in circumference.
5. The island is truly a heaven on earth.
6. There were low banks of earth between the rice fields.
7. People used to believe (that) the earth was flat.
8. People were awestruck by the pictures the satellite sent back to earth.
9. The space shuttle Atlantis returned safely to Earth today.
10. Equipment on the space station is teleoperated from Earth.
11. The earth was spongy from rain.
12. How on earth did that happen?
13. The earth is illuminated by the sun.
14. The horses' hooves bit deep into the soft earth.
15. I must be the happiest person on earth !
16. What on earth had Luke done?.
17. The age of the earth is reckoned at about 4 600 million years.
18. Her husband taught Earth sciences.
19. The earth revolves on its axis.
20. The god Vishnu was incarnated on earth as a king.
21. There was no reason on earth why she couldn't have moved in with us.
22. There is no feeling on earth like winning for the first time.
23. What on earth are you doing?
24. The moon is a satellite of earth.
25. The Earth orbits in an ellipse.
26. Keep looking ─ they can't just have vanished off the face of the earth.
27. Biodiversity was the buzzword of the Rio Earth Summit.
28. How on earth did that happen?.
29. She put some earth into the pot.
30. It must have cost the earth.
31. A Russian space capsule is currently orbiting the Earth.
32. He felt the earth tremble under him.
33. When did mammals appear on the earth?
34. He wanted to be the fastest man on earth.
35. How on earth can she afford that?
36. People used to believe the earth was flat.
37. She ran him to earth in the pub at five to one.
38. After a week at sea, it was good to feel the earth beneath our feet again.
39. Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him.
40. The total forest cover of the earth is decreasing.
41. Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.
42. When he came down to earth after his win he admitted: 'It was an amazing feeling'.
43. No human being on the face of the earth could do anything worse than what he did.
44. Because the earth spins, it is not a perfect sphere.
45. The ancients conceived the earth as afloat in water.
46. The nearest star to earth is about 4 light years away.
47. Her speciality is maths, earth science, and chemistry.
48. It was once thought that the sun travelled around the earth.
49. The earth takes a year to orbit the sun.
50. The earth revolves around the sun.
51. The earth takes a year to make a circuit of the sun.
52. The earth rotates around the sun.
53. The earth moves round the sun.
54. People used to think the earth was flat.
55. Water covers a large proportion of the earth's surface.
56. The equator is an imaginary line around the middle of the earth.
57. The moon exerts a force on the earth.
58. You could feel the earth shake as the truck came closer.
59. The moon exerts a force on the earth that causes the tides.
60. Being totally alone is my idea of hell on earth.
61. A new satellite has been put into orbit around the earth.
62. Mars and Earth have orbits which change with time.