Example Sentences

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It’s happy and sad; soaring and earthily unsentimental.

From Washington Post • Feb. 16, 2021

A few of his former dalliances are interviewed here, including Cindy Breakspeare, the earthily frank Miss World 1976, and a lady identified as “Pat Williams, baby mother.”

From Slate • Apr. 19, 2012

Billed as "Gospel and Spiritual All-Nite Sing," it is colloquially called "gospel boogie" or, more earthily, "jumping for Jesus."

From Time Magazine Archive

As the overly ambitious mother, Italy's expert Actress Magnani gives one of her earthily explosive performances.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shadow Man that he was, he stepped earthily, with thuds of his feet on the grass.

From Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings by Donnell, Annie Hamilton