Sample sentences for TERRESTRIAL

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Definition

relating to the planet Earth

or:

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

terrestrials = earth

Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

terrestrials = earth

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

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