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Definition
relating to the planet Earthor:
relating to land (in contrast to sea or air)
- I just wanted to go back to that secret post-terrestrial third space with him that we visited when we talked on the phone.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
terrestrial = earth
- Peter, those are not post-terrestrials.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij.John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
- It was about an Earthling man and woman who were kidnapped by extra-terrestrials.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Robyn and I observed the whole show (including the terrestrial maneuvers in our box) with pure enjoyment.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- Max realized it was pointless to compare this creature to anything terrestrial.Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
- If I may state my intellectual position I am, so far as concerns things purely terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied spiritually!Bram Stoker -- Dracula
- Would my spirit be happier wandering the Terrestrial Kingdom—planet Earth—forever?Ellen Hopkins -- Burned
- 'Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- Amidst all their exultations, Americans and Frenchmen should remember that the perfectibility of man is only human and terrestrial perfectibility.David McCullough -- John Adams
- The ball represented the terrestrial globe and the stick in his other hand a scepter.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- It never morphs completely from an aquatic larva into a terrestrial form, always staying in between, unsure of whether it's a fish or a reptile.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so;—give me thy hand, celestial; so.William Shakespeare -- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- They couldn't last without terrestrial resupply, so they emigrated to the Outback and named the survey world after their moon.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- The contraction of the terrestrial scaffolding, when it suddenly cooled, had been evidently the cause.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- His heart, swelled by the intoxication of joy, felt ready to dissolve away at the very gate of that terrestrial paradise called Love!Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- To demolish the constructed word, a social revolution, a terrestrial revolution are required.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Though they seemed able to breathe terrestrial air, they sometimes carried small cylinders of gas from which they refreshed themselves occasionally.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- "That is what we must find out," returned Gaetano, fixing his eyes on this terrestrial star.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- I suppose the sky is their home; they need no terrestrial haven.Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
terrestrials = earth
terrestrials = earth
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