earthlike
Example Sentences
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Venus presumably reached its current state from more earthlike initial conditions as a result of a runaway greenhouse effect, which included the loss of large quantities of water.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
“It seems possible to make it earthlike, but there's a lot of barriers to overcome,” Toon said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2015
Perhaps 0.000001 per cent exists in earthlike planets.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 6, 2015
Or was the origin of winged insects, flying mammals like bats, and the roughly 10,000 species of birds that use earth’s atmosphere, simply a one-off evolutionary fluke likely never to repeat on another earthlike planet?
From Forbes ● Jun. 27, 2014
Though mixed up with what was rude and earthlike, there was still a remote, dreamlike, Arcadian charm, which is scarcely to be found in the daily toil of other lands.
From The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne
