earth up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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“You can’t just shovel earth up there, you need to find a way of anchoring it, and then you also have to anchor a ski surface, plants, trees. It starts to get complicated.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2019
As the company explains elsewhere, it can also generate codes with an even greater degree of specificity, further dividing the earth up into 3 meter–by–3 meter units.
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2018
In 2016, Slate’s Joshua Keating described a similar project from a British startup called What3Words that similarly sectioned the earth up into 57 trillion 3 meter–by–3 meter squares.
From Slate • Mar. 14, 2018
In a revival of his two-act play “Happy Days,” she played a woman buried in a mound of earth up to her neck.
From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2014
He slipped into the earth, up to his chest.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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