terrene
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Blue-eyed Mrs. Slocum, president of Boat Transit Co., is no terrene "Tugboat Annie," does not drive a truck herself.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
And is it not noteworthy that our life terrene at certain epochs seems to be made up wholly of these?
From The Book of Khalid by Rihani, Ameen Fares
What should he do, to be more worthy? by what devotion, call down the notice of these eyes to so terrene a being as himself?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
The specialised forms of terrene perception were not real novelties in the universe, but imperfect adaptations of protoplasm to the manifestation of the indwelling general perceptive power.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
This settled first, it will be a question for consideration between herself and her terrene spouse whether they shall combine their several establishments, or agree to be divorced by death.
From Satires And Profanities by Foote, G. W. (George William)