Sentences with earthly
earth·ly
E e - ...the need to confront evil during the earthly life.
- There is no earthly reason why they should ever change.
- As the Abbey rang with the music Queen Elizabeth stood erect to be divested of earthly jewels.
- The image of a fearsome Jesus who will turn the tables on the unbelieving earthly authorities corresponds to a widespread sense among many.
- A thing of no earthly good
- An invention of no earthly use to anyone.
- The Romans-derived view that earthquakes are an earthly expression of divine displeasure has a long history.
- There, amid a scene of earthly splendor, reflecting a splendor from on high, the Monarch entered into the Kingdom.
- earthly joys
- Richard Glover In the Jain religion, Bahubali is said to have renounced all Earthly glory.
- Earthly is applied to that which belongs to the earth or to the present life and is chiefly contrasted with heavenly [earthly pleasures]; terrestrial, having as its opposite celestial (both Latin-derived parallels of the preceding terms), has special application in formal and scientific usage [terrestrial magnetism]; worldly implies reference to the material concerns or pursuits of humankind and is chiefly contrasted with spiritual [worldly wisdom]; mundane, although often used as a close synonym of , worldly, now esp. stresses the commonplace or practical aspects of life [to return to mundane matters after a flight of fancy]