earthlyearth‧ly /ˈɜːθli $ ˈɜːrθli/ adjective

- Buddha taught that earthly existence is full of suffering.
- Believers wanted to be detached in many ways from earthly life and attached to heavenly life through a process called salvation.
- Eventually we find him established as a hermit at Finchale, having abandoned the pursuit of earthly treasure.
- In its upright form it represents the vertical thrust of life across sedimentary layers of earthly matter.
- Remind us again Lord, that we can pray, and that your sovereignty is greater than any earthly power.
- Surely there's no earthly reason why you should not come with me to mass?
- They become bogeymen, earthly Aliens, and -- despite the fake human faces they develop -- very easy to spot.
- They were seen as the earthly links to the gods of the underworld.
- What earthly cause could there be for him to think they are both working on the same side now?
NOUN► life· Perhaps they just find it comforting to think that this one earthly life is not the beginning and end of it all.· Believers wanted to be detached in many ways from earthly life and attached to heavenly life through a process called salvation.· Surely, though, he performed quite enough miracles in his earthly life.
► paradise· All men go through life clinging to an idea of an earthly paradise.· There are waterfalls and cascades, cliffs and rocks, native trees and rampant heather in an earthly paradise.· But a new element in Montaigne's essay was its suggestion that the earthly paradise might be a still existing real place.
► reason· Surely there's no earthly reason why you should not come with me to mass?· There seemed to be no earthly reason for the Bureau to resist such status-but it did.· As far as I could tell, there was no earthly reason for Fanshawe to have chosen me for this job.· There is no earthly reason why I shouldn't be able to move like these young athletes.
► use· It serves no earthly use to recapitulate the damage that they do, and which we know they do.
► no earthly reason/use etc- As far as I could tell, there was no earthly reason for Fanshawe to have chosen me for this job.
- It serves no earthly use to recapitulate the damage that they do, and which we know they do.
- Surely there's no earthly reason why you should not come with me to mass?
- There is no earthly reason why I shouldn't be able to move like these young athletes.
- There seemed to be no earthly reason for the Bureau to resist such status-but it did.
nounearthearthlingearthinessadjectiveearthyearthly ≠ unearthlyearthenverbunearthadverbearthward(s)